Sponsors filed the plan to help a southwest suburban company working with DHL to add hydrogen-powered trucks to their U.S. fleet.

Chicago Public School’s five essential surveys last year for Bright Elementary showed 28 percent didn’t feel safe traveling between home and school, 51 percent said they didn’t feel safe in the bathroom, and 46 percent didn’t feel safe in the hallways. In the area around Trumbull Park Homes and Bright Elementary, from January to October of this year there have been more than 1,700 calls for service, ranging from shots fired to burglary alarms.

State Reps. John M. Cabello, Patrick Sheehan and Dennis Tipsword, all current law enforcement officers, released a statement Monday: “As Police Officers, we’ve seen firsthand how communities have become less safe, and what happened at the tree lighting ceremony this weekend and last week on the CTA are further examples of why we need to repeal the broken SAFE-T Act to restore accountability in the justice system.”

The federal filing revealed CTU has paid accountants to conduct the missing audits, but has not released them. “When unions flout these obligations, they betray the trust of the very people they are meant to serve … Every dollar paid by workers should serve their interests, not those of a select few operating in the shadows,” the Congressional committee’s letter stated.

“No amount of bureaucratic renaming will fix a system that feels, and often is, unsafe, nor will fiscal stability return while CTA’s cost structure remains top-heavy and misaligned.”

The signs intentionally resemble the temporary no parking or tow zone signs familiar to Chicagoans. Marimacha Monarca Press has printed at least 100 signs with the phone number of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights support hotline, and plans to keep printing more until rapid response teams no longer request them.

The Illinois General Assembly created a path for the Cook County Public Defender’s Office to represent immigrants involved in removal proceedings in Cook County by passing House Bill 2790 in 2021. And early this year, state Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz filed House Bill 2436 to give the Cook County Board the authority to allow its public defender’s office to provide representation outside of Cook County.

The number of English language proficiency violations for commercial drivers in Illinois year-to-date has nearly eclipsed last year’s totals with nearly 1 in 5 having CDL’s coming from the state of Illinois.

“Cook County’s property tax system is a case study in persistent dysfunction, and reform is elusive because the system is a cash cow for local governments. The broken assessment and appeals processes are lucrative moneymakers for the politically connected.”

“Finally, the biggest challenge facing our budget — underfunded pensions — is excluded from this EY report. The tough but honest truth is: Unless Chicago tackles its pension debt, it will never escape its budget hole. … We have to bring retirees, current employees and taxpayers to the table to talk about real solutions, together, and chart a path forward.”

“This is the first time in the union’s modern history that elected officials have stepped into what CTU leadership has insisted is an ‘internal matter.’ It’s not an internal matter anymore. Teachers are fighting their own leadership for the right to know where their money went. And that fight has finally reached Congress.”

“These individuals believe that spending money on themselves benefits our educational system more so than spending it on the children who so rightfully deserve it, who need it, who need to have the mentors, the teachers, the tutors to just basically learn reading skills,” Brooks said.

The ages of the victims range from 13 to 65, according to police.