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Sen. Bill Cunningham, a Chicago Democrat with a reputation for taking charge of energy and climate change legislation, will step down at the end of his current term.
An estimated 597,415 immigrants comprise about 22 percent of the city’s population, according to 2024 data released by the U.S. Census Bureau Thursday. Last year’s immigrant population count was the highest in Chicago since 2006 and bucks the trend of its slow but relatively steady decline over the last two decades.
“Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and his team have been pushing City Council to approve the tax, which they estimate will take $80 million from shoppers next year. But the mayor is extremely unpopular. That makes it a political landmine — a straight up-or-down vote that puts every alderman on record, with liabilities on the order of Cook County’s short-lived soda tax.”
“House Joint Resolution 40 creates a joint, bipartisan Saving Working Families and Easing the Cost of Living Task Force to develop targeted policies to reduce cost of living and enhance economic wellbeing for middle-class and modest-income families.”
Now, with the temporary moratorium in place, the state has to decide the future of the industry — and whether the risks it brings outweigh the emission reductions it promises.
The governor pushed for a bill regulating delta-8 products to only be sold at dispensaries earlier this year. It passed the Senate, but Illinois Speaker of the House Chris Welch did not bring it up for a vote on the house floor after a dramatic argument behind closed doors.
Walking out on students has become a go-to strategy for many affiliates of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and the Illinois Education Association, the two biggest teachers unions in Illinois. Earlier this school year, Valley View Council Local 604, an affiliate of IFT, set a Sept. 18 strike date but reached a tentative agreement before walking out. The Naperville Unit Education Association, an affiliate of IEA, voted to authorize a strike but reached a tentative contract agreement one day later.
“The SAFE-T Act gives judges immense responsibilities, and each judge now is one pretrial-release horror story away from incurring voters’ wrath.”
Gov. JB Pritzker announced that all Illinois flags were to be flown at half-staff in honor of “victims of political violence” Sept. 12-14, following the president’s lead. But Aurora Mayor John Laesch ordered all flags on city property to be raised to full staff Sept. 12, saying, ” … (L)owering the flag is a solemn act that carries great weight. The choice to do so should not be made cavalierly. Doing so diminishes the importance of the remembrance of tragedies like September 11, 2001.”
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