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The protests were held Saturday outside immigration facilities in Broadview, Portland and Los Angeles, as well as the ICE headquarters in Washington, D.C.,
State Sen. Darby Hills is backing Illinois Senate Bill 4182, which would require most insurance plans to cover a six-month supply of egg and peanut allergen supplements for infants when prescribed by a health care provider.
Schweizer noted that property tax reform and relief measures have bipartisan and bicameral support, yet none of the bills he has backed have been called for a vote.
Over the same period, inflation rose less than 91 percent, and average wages climbed about 161 percent. Cook County government itself has kept its property tax levy comparatively low, increasing just 26 percent over the 30‑year period studied. Cook County instead raised its sales tax to cover rising costs.
The car’s owner said she called the Law Department for more information on the denial and was told if someone had called to report the rusty pole before it had snapped, the city would have paid her claim. CDOT said of the light pole that fell, “It was last inspected in 2017, at which time, inspectors noted no observed structural issues and a routine amount of rust.”
“Reliance on hotel taxes reflects a destructive pattern in Chicago’s fiscal policy: turning to narrow, politically convenient revenue sources instead of addressing core issues driving fiscal gaps. The city has used this approach with taxes on streaming services, sports betting, and social media to cover broader structural gaps.”
“It would, as a matter of entertainment, be a shame to see this legal food fight among our black-robed rulers go without its day in court: one judge suing seven other judges in a lawsuit presided over by another judge. Observers wouldn’t be able to identify who’s who without a scorecard.”
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Thursday in a news release it was still moving forward with the construction of deterrents near Joliet to block the path of the carp, but would move management of the project to Michigan.
“Why is shutting down schools for a union-led protest part of a contract discussion in the first place? In part, it’s because of a state law passed in 2021 that repealed limits on CTU’s collective bargaining powers. There are now virtually no limits on what CTU can demand at the bargaining table, which means unlimited political moves and unlimited grievances.”
“Look beneath the surface of this bill. You will find a troubling set of facts: a sitting state senator who is simultaneously the sole officer of a private consulting corporation and a founding board officer of a nonprofit that lobbies for the very industry her legislation is designed to expand — and a network of multimillion-dollar behavioral health organizations positioned to profit from every referral the system generates.”
The Illinois House unanimously passed a bill to require the state to create an online portal detailing utility charges to consumers, separate from delivery and supply charges. The website should include the statutory authority for charges remitted to the state or retained by utility companies, the amount collected each year and a detailed accounting of how funds are spent.
The proposal, Senate Bill 3353, would create the Digital Advertising Tax Act, establishing a 10 percent tax on revenue generated from digital advertising services in Illinois by companies that exceed a high revenue threshold.
Sundas “Sunny” Naqvi drew national attention with claims that she and five others returned from a work trip in Turkey March 5 and were held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at O’Hare International Airport for 30 hours, moved to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, and then transferred to the Dodge County Jail. Her supporters, including Cook County Commissioner Kevin Morrison, decried her alleged detainment before surveillance images were released to show Naqvi was able to leave O’Hare about 90 minutes after she landed.
House Bill 5408, backed by Rep. Anna Moeller, would create the Abortion Access Fund under the Illinois Department of Public Health, receiving 90 percent of any leftover dollars insurers are already required by the Affordable Care Act to set aside to cover abortion services for policyholders.
Among them, Lincoln College posted record-breaking enrollment in 2019, but was done in three years later by the “economic burdens initiated by the COVID pandemic” and hastened by a cyberattack. The closing of a college can impact a community from multiple angles, from loss of population base, to loss of revenues, to what to do with empty buildings.
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