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In the Chicago area, listings are down 54 percent from 2019, according to Zillow. Nine Illinois metro areas have suffered even larger declines. Bloomington saw the steepest drop, with inventory down 69 percent from 2019.
“Where’s the salt trucks? Where are the tow trucks. Where were all of that Sunday night? That’s the question. And Brandon Johnson owes us all an answer for that,” Ald. Ray Lopez said.
Rep. Regan Deering said Illinois needs to return to academic fundamentals, including phonics, math skills and higher expectations. “We’ve really just gotten away from the fundamentals,” she said. “And so, I think getting back to that, getting back to having that higher expectation, making extra resources available to our students” is necessary.
The lawsuit says the move “excludes medically necessary healthcare services from federal reimbursement only when provided to low-income transgender adolescents” while flying in the face of how Medicare and Medicaid exclusions have traditionally been set — by the states.
In July 2013, Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy. Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon said Chicago, unlike Detroit, has sold most of its future sales tax revenue. “This was a major mistake that the legislature in Springfield made about five years ago when they passed legislation authorizing this form of financing,” Glennon said.
Affordable housing developer: “The path forward is not mysterious. Chicago needs a four-year housing agenda built around one simple standard: producing more homes. We can create up to 50,000 housing units and close half the city’s affordable housing deficit with this four-year plan.”
“So far, (Gov. JB) Pritzker is opting out, as have most Democratic governors. Two Democrats who have opted in are New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis. Hochul, like Polis, explained she opted in because she decided the program was good for her state’s K-12 students. Illinois kids won’t be eligible for a scholarship if Pritzker doesn’t opt in.”
Some videos on social media show weapons, a pickup truck doing donuts and a wheel flying into a crowd. Another showed people starting and then standing in a ring of fire. Though some videos ended with police breaking them up, information about arrests was unavailable.
“In the past week or so, three women have told stories about their dissatisfaction with the way they were treated by the state’s legislative inspector general. … ‘His treatment of victims is unacceptable,’ she wrote. ‘The LIG kept telling me he was a federal judge, and that I made him look incompetent and questioned his integrity of investigating. … If someone really comes forward with a serious sexual assault or a big case, nobody should have to talk to him.'”
“ISBE cited numerous factors that have driven the school funding gap growth, including everything from declining local revenues, to a more accurate count of low-income students. But the gorilla in the room remains Illinois’ consistent failure to adequately fund K-12 from state-based revenue. In fact, the state only covers 27 percent of all education funding costs, well below the national average of 46 percent.”
A University of Chicago poll found that 13.6 percent of Chicagoans want Brandon Johnson to run for re-election.
mass shooting in Jeanette Taylor’s ward, a federal offer turned down, and the uncomfortable question of whose safety Chicago actually guarantees.
“At the center of the dispute sits a document that still hasn’t been signed: a legally binding community benefits agreement (CBA). Reporting by the Chicago Reader and The TRiiBE lays out the coalition’s specific asks: protection against displacement from rising housing costs, guaranteed local hiring, preservation of parks and natural habitat, limits on pollution, a tax break for residents that mirrors what developers are getting and a community credit union to support small businesses.”
The pandemic dried up much of the Loop’s lunchtime business, so many restaurant owners could no longer afford downtown rents, said John Vance, principal at Stone Real Estate. But landlords are now more likely to offer generous terms, perhaps including lower rents, and that’s helped local entrepreneurs without deep financial pockets gain a foothold downtown, he said.
“This was an easy vote and something Democrats could point to and say – ‘Yes, I voted to reject socialism in all its forms.’ They couldn’t do it. Therefore, every Illinois Democrat just proved whose side they are on – the radical Democrat Socialists.”
Adler-Bolton argues that “fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism” and says the goal should not be to become “more useful to the ruling order.”