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“The sad story is that many in the Chicago media have less integrity than the worst street thugs in the city. They have not exercised the First Amendment; they have abused it, violated it. Their willingness to support the most vicious, violent offenders as a war on the system should be kept in one’s mind as they publish virtually daily attacks on police officers.”
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi denounced the hearings as the “latest effort to weaponize the immigration courts to facilitate mass removals” at the expense of due process, in a five-page letter sent Tuesday to U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Maryland’s tax court struck down the first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax Aug. 14, and ordered refunds to be paid to taxpayers for more than five years worth of collections, according to The Tax Foundation.
“Public employment may enable an employee’s crimes even after they have left the job,” Cook County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Donnelly wrote. “An employee still forfeits his pension when he commits a crime sufficiently related to his past government job. Thus, an employee who left the job and contacted a former coworker to sabotage an ongoing investigation properly forfeits their pension because the former employment enabled the crime.”
“CTU is trying to have it both ways — to be a political mover-and-shaker while claiming it should be immune to public criticism because all it’s trying to do is represent its members.”
The race contract between NASCAR, the city and the Chicago Park District has received criticism from numerous alderpeople for being a more lucrative deal for NASCAR than for the city. NASCAR was also seeking a $15 million grant from the state for next year’s event, but only received $5 million appropriated in next year’s budget.
The first issue for Pritzker, who has championed public schools, is whether Illinois will opt into the Trump administration’s federal tax credit scholarship program by the end of the year. The other problem facing Illinois’ governor is how to respond to the Chicago Board of Education’s demand for $150 million additional state dollars to fill the district’s budget deficit during the upcoming veto session.
Randi Weingarten calls for a boycott of a company in which its members own millions of shares. Research highlighted by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School found that targeted companies’ share prices fell nearly 1% for each day a boycott received national print-media attention. The financial effects can extend well beyond the boycott itself.
The first installment of 2025 property tax bills — which arrived in mailboxes at the height of the primary for Cook County Board president — was a month late, with payments due April 1, records show. The second installment of 2024 property tax bills was four months late, creating a cash crunch across the county that forced cities, school districts and other agencies to scramble to pay their bills.
Bally’s Chicago recently announced it would pause construction on facilities aside from the permanent casino following a dispute between the company and the Chicago City Council over what they called in a statement “an uncontrolled proliferation of video gambling terminals is in breach of the City’s commitment not to expand gaming.”
To date, published reports have indicated the city of Chicago has paid $142 million to settle 14 lawsuits in which former Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara is linked to alleged wrongful prosecutions for murder.
Voters in school districts in St. Charles, Algonquin, Oswego and downstate Mahomet-Seymour will decide whether to approve borrowing for facility improvements.
The proposal was approved 8-0 to fund a new $26.5 billion, 15-year capital plan, but the automatic, inflation-linked toll hikes will continue beyond the timeline of the proposed projects.
“We’re looking to make this really the center of gravity,” said Christy George, CEO of the Illinois Economic Development Corporation. She says this will create 1,000 permanent jobs, with an apprentice program supplying a pipeline of community-college grads in Chicago.
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If existing toll revenues have consistently covered the cost of operating and maintaining the system, why are Illinois drivers now being asked to pay even more? Special interests wanted more money
The Department of Defense said the audit is “designed to protect American taxpayer-funded research investments from unauthorized technology transfer, intellectual property theft and adversarial exploitation.” The Department of Defense said that the institutions are required to report their findings no later than August 31 in order to “maintain eligibility for future federal research funding.”
The shootings come as latest data from the Chicago Police Department shows shootings in the past 12 months are down more than 27 percent from the yearly average of the prior three years.
“Faced with the choice between detention and release, judges have increasingly used electronic monitoring as a third option to split the difference. The problem is that electronic monitoring is not detention, and it should not be treated as an appropriate alternative when someone poses a danger to the public.”