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“One of the things I really have focused on is making Chicago great again,” President Donald Trump said during the interview on 60 Minutes. “And we’re just getting started in Chicago.”
In a ruling handed down Friday, a federal judge granted the city’s motion for a preliminary injunction challenging the decision by the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to terminate a program created to reimburse cities for costs tied to the care and feeding of migrants.
If enacted, the bill would allow terminally ill patients who are mentally capable and have a prognosis of six months or less to live to receive prescription medication that would end their lives, according to advocates.
“We cannot continue to demonize law enforcement, all of law enforcement, for the sins of a few,” state Rep. John Cabello said.
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Under the law signed by President George W. Bush in 2007, workers are entitled to forgiveness for the remaining balance of their loans if they dedicate 10 years to government or nonprofit work and stay up to date with their payments. Friday, the Department of Education issued a rule that threatened to remove eligibility for student loan forgiveness to anyone who works for someone with “a substantial illegal purpose.”
Sen. Michael Hastings, the chief sponsor of the insurance bill, plans to reintroduce the bill in the 2026 session. He attributed its defeat in the veto session to last-minute lobbying by the insurance industry. “The insurance industry, you want to talk about one of the strongest lobbying arms at the Capitol,” he said. “Ninety-nine percent of that piece of legislation was agreed upon.”
A native of Durango, Mexico, García is a longtime figure in Illinois politics. He started as an alderman on the Chicago City Council from 1986 to 1993, then served in the Illinois Senate from 1993 to 1999 and on the Cook County Board of Commissioners from 2011 to 2018. He also ran for mayor of Chicago twice, coming in second to Rahm Emanuel in 2015 and fourth to Brandon Johnson, Paul Vallas and Lori Lightfoot in 2023.
The decision comes after two federal judges ruled that freezing payments for the country’s biggest anti-hunger program is unlawful, even as the money ran out this weekend for the 42 million people who rely on SNAP to put food on the table.
A crash that killed a Coles County board member and his wife Oct. 24 has raised the ire of members of the Illinois Freedom Caucus, because the driver and passenger in the other vehicle were undocumented immigrants.
“According to Wirepoints, Illinois continues to hemorrhage wealthy residents. Since 2000, the state has lost roughly 1.6 million people — third most in the nation, behind only California and New York. Chicago’s population, even with the recent influx of migrants, is now at its lowest level in nearly a century. Almost every county in Illinois has experienced a decline in population. Even more troubling, Illinois isn’t merely losing residents — it’s losing income.”
“This development is attracting quantum computing companies, startups, established tech giants, DARPA, and the federal government, who want to be where the action is,” Pritzker said.
The records show Chicago surfers drawn to the West, South and North sides, with nine incidents so far this year, 12 in 2024 and three in 2023.
A survey by The Meyers Report, which evaluated all 50 states and 36 countries across 17 critical voting risk areas, gave Illinois a score of just 39 out of 100.
Who better to figure out how put itself at the center of central planning subsidies than the Chinese Communist Party?
According to DHS, the Border Patrol vehicle had been “aggressively tailgated by a red vehicle.” When agents attempted to make a U-turn, the sedan collided with their car. One of the suspects then “physically assaulted” an agent by kicking and targeting his groin, prompting the officer to deliver “defensive strikes.” Said DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin, “A hostile crowd then surrounded agents and their vehicle and began verbally abusing them and spitting on them.”
Ed Bachrach, of the Center for Pension Integrity, and Bryce Hill, of the Illinois Policy Institute: “Illinois lawmakers have been committing pension malpractice for decades. Instead of reversing the legitimate pension reform enacted in 2010, they should stop their amortization addiction.”
Mayor Brandon Johnson said at a press conference that those opposed to his head tax “are not wanting to help domestic violence survivors” and “should do some real soul-searching.” Just two days later, 27 of 50 Chicago City Council members signed a letter opposing the head tax.
Almost 3 in 4 voters (72%) decry today’s polarizing political rhetoric as a cause of contemporary violence, and over 4 in 5 state it is unacceptable for their own political party to use violence to achieve its aims…. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and others are villainizing the ICE agents in dire language that is an open invitation to violence.”
The ages of the victims range from 17 to 74, according to police.
“Illinois deserves credit for making its data public and accessible. But accessibility isn’t the same as honesty. The public deserves a clear explanation that the goalposts have moved — not a misleading victory lap.”
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