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Ryan O’Donnell and Michael Goree sued the city and United Road Towing alleging violation of their Fifth Amendment rights as a result of the graduated forfeiture process through which unpaid tickets can result in losing ownership of vehicles.
X users ripped the union for promoting the event. “How is this helping the education of children in Chicago?” asked one critic. “Do you ever actually focus on teaching?” asked another. “Are you teachers or activists? Anyway [the bombing is] already done,” said a third.
If Chicago’s City Council approves the social media crackdown on teen gatherings, and attempts to enforce it, it will likely trigger a legal fight over the ability of a local government to regulate what is posted online, an area that is covered by the First Amendment and federal law, which grants online platforms immunity from liability for most content posted by their users.
While this year’s ratio reflects the smallest gap between new move-ins and those leaving the state since 2008, staffers nonetheless found 54 percent of the company’s clients last year were on the move out of Illinois.
While the governor isn’t putting it at the top of his agenda, state Sen. Rob Martwick introduced legislation in both 2023 and 2025. The first was a lone-wolf effort that did not get called before the 2024 election. But Martwick has 17 co-sponsors on his current resolution. And similar legislation in the House, filed by state Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid, has more than two dozen co-sponsors.
The Obama Center in Jackson Park is set to open its doors later this year and its looking to hire more than 150 people for full-time jobs, including work in visitor experience, building management and security.
Retired chief of the Riverside Police Department Tom Weitzel: “Illinois demands constant accountability from officers — body cameras, reports, training and public scrutiny. But when accountability reaches the chief’s office, it too often becomes performative, not reform-minded. Real accountability moves up the chain of command.”
“The Clifton Lewis murder media coverage reveals that even the most pathetic, baseless claims are all that is needed in Chicago to overturn convictions and feed the anti-police movement, even a police murder case. … Foxx’s malevolence against ‘the system’ revealed itself even more. Not only did Foxx drop charges in the case, but she then fired one of the prosecutors, Nancy Adduci … “
In his first month as Cook County’s new chief judge, Charles Beach said he has worked to improve transparency, strengthen court operations and boost overall accountability.
Illinois lost 2,616 businesses to other states from 1994-2023, data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed. For most of that time, the average loss was 64 businesses per year. The rate started accelerating significantly in about 2017 and has tripled since the pandemic.
“So, let’s be clear here – of the $4.4 million they needed to raise to open up the grocery store, over $1.5 million (35%) came from taxpayers. This store is a for-profit store. It is a competitor to every other store that offers the same product. I don’t think Jewel, Mariano’s, Target, Walmart, or any other grocery seller had the taxpayers fund 35% of their development costs. This is a socialist model, and they are lying about locally
Around 5 p.m. Saturday, hundreds of protesters gathered in the bitter cold at Federal Plaza in Chicago’s Loop. They say the Trump administration’s military action is “risky to American lives” and many demanded an end to the bombing campaign in the Caribbean.
The legislation would let local governments issue STAR bonds to help finance developments that would create at least 300 new jobs and use the state’s portion of sales tax revenue generated from the development to repay those bonds.
The ages of the victims range from 17 to 58, according to Chicago police.
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