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“Horrified by the terrorist attack in Australia targeting Jewish people celebrating the first night of Hanukkah,” Pritzker wrote on social media. “Antisemitism has no place in this world. As so many light their candles tonight, we’ll come together to pray for a future where the light will triumph over darkness.”
“The beneficiaries in this instance are once convicted murderers — almost always men of color — exonerated of their crimes, sometimes decades after the murder. New evidence is rarely introduced in the cases, but claims of police and prosecutorial misconduct are. … Once exonerated, their lawyers file wrongful conviction lawsuits in federal courts, cases that are nearly always settled before trial by Cook County and Chicago officials mortified, as Minnesota officials are, at prospect of isolating their political based for being labelled racist.”
“Per state law, any TIF ‘surplus’ must be distributed proportionally to local governments. … (Mayor Brandon) Johnson is pushing the higher, $1 billion sweep so CPS can then turn around and make a $175 million pension payment back to the city. This is exemplary of the shell games at play with TIF, which ultimately moves money in circles, obscuring who is taxing whom—and why.”
“Remember: Schools are a part of a larger political system. As such, education, at its core is inherently political,” the slide says. “School is a political place because so many adults (e.g., educators, policymakers, parents) have a vested interest in the future generation.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and his city council are at odds with the 2026 budget, but one place they appear to have found common ground is on taxing city-based sports betting revenue.
“States like Illinois and other blue states that are flouting our federal immigration laws, that are providing protection and sanctuary and making taxpayers pay the bill in tragedies like this — and financially,” she said. “These states are making choices that have real consequences for innocent Americans.”
The alleged attacks occurred just days after a judge refused to keep Marlon Miller in jail despite another judge’s warning that the 40-year-old had a “very violent history,” a prosecutorial request to keep Miller in jail, and intense public scrutiny of the county’s electronic monitoring failures following the CTA train fire attack that left a woman gravely injured.
“The wild thing here is that Illinois is the only U.S. state that failed to nix its tax sales in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling. As a result, the counties have argued that they should not be the ones paying out because they were following state law. They may well have a decent case when they claim to have had no choice in the matter. The state? Perhaps not as much.”
The properties are under “severe stress” due to defaults as a result of the CHA missing payments to Brinshore and deferred maintenance, Brinshore cofounder Richard Sciortino wrote in an August email. The Chicago-based national affordable housing provider is selling 20 properties across the city, or 2,435 units that include 695 units subsidized by the CHA.
“We are lifelong Illinois residents. Our own governor could not spare a moment to acknowledge that a young woman in his state was killed by someone protected by policies he defends. Compassion from state leadership is selective. Our family did not qualify.”
Dan Bernstein: “If you want to go to a gathering that tells me clearly that you are proud to be among hatemongers, homophobes, fascists, racists, flag-waving proud racists. If these are your people and this is your thing, and you want to be at this proudly Nazi-adjacent pep rally, go ahead. Go ahead. Have a day, man. Have a week. Whatever blows your hair back.
Jerry Costello II, director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, said this week the latest aid package is less than half the size of the one offered in response to trade disputes during Trump’s first administration. He said the money being offered now is not nearly enough to make up for the losses farmers are suffering.
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