Wirepoints https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Illinois bill would force employers to pay employees regular wages for jury duty – Center Square Illinois Dems eye $7B from new tax proposals, push ‘Billionaire Wealth Tax’ – Center Square Municipal leaders press lawmakers for more funding – Capitol News IL Illinois gas tax will rise to nearly 50 centers per gallon in July – Illinois Policy Illinois State Police Launch Investigation Into Killing of Silverio Villegas González by Federal Immigration Agents – WTTW (Chicago) Plan would have state taxpayers provide $50M for ICE-impacted businesses – Center Square Appeals court splits over ICE detention of illegal immigrants without bond – Center Square Under Pritzker, Illinois near the bottom in job growth – Illinois Policy Federal watchdog to review ‘effectiveness’ of National Guard deployment to Chicago – FOX32 (Chicago) Feds charge Chicago police sergeant with wire fraud tied to COVID relief loans – ABC7 (Chicago) Housing market power divide: states where buyers can find the most and least inventory – FastCompany Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine Editorial: Ald. William Hall castigates Walgreens but fails to confront its reason for leaving Chatham – Chicago Tribune/AOL Johnson Blasts State Lawmakers’ Focus on Bears Proposal as ‘Mismatch’ With What People ‘Are Most Concerned About’ – WTTW (Chicago) Thousands Take To Chicago Streets For May Day Demonstrations – Block Club Chicago ComEd files to recover $234 million in added costs – Chicago Tribune* Trump DOJ investigating ‘gender ideology’ in 3 dozen Illinois school districts – Capitol News IL Ted Dabrowski: Chicago Criminal Justice Failures Continue Piling Up, Corporate Abandonment Law Proposal Reveals Backward Logic of Blue City Governance – AM560 (Chicago) JB Pritzker, The Heavy Hitter Quietly Bankrolling Democrats Ahead Of Possible Presidential Run – Daily Caller Schools won’t be downgraded for ‘chronic absenteeism’ – WGNTV (Chicago) City Council committee backs banning sweepstakes machines over Mayor Johnson’s objections – Chicago Sun-Times Illinois lawmakers debating competing proposals on AI liability in catastrophes – CBS2 (Chicago) House GOP says Dems ignoring ‘realistic’ property tax relief plans – Center Square What to know about Mayor Johnson’s Hail Mary to keep Bears in Chicago – ABC7 (Chicago) Department of Employment Security faces questions about fraud recoveries – Center Square Senator Dick Durbin discusses Senate developments in Normal – WMBD (Peoria) Under oath, Kim Foxx says she believed exonerated men were guilty in ‘heinous’ Bucktown murders – CWB Chicago Cook County Landlords Have Filed For More Than 40,000 Evictions Since 2022 – Block Club Chicago Former Ald. George Cardenas forms exploratory committee to run for mayor – Chicago Sun-Times Shootings, Homicides in Chicago Up This Year as They Continue to Outpace Last Year’s Historic Lows – WTTW (Chicago) Illinois AI regulations have mild industry support, could draw federal ire – Center Square Unfair policies shut kids out of extracurriculars – Illinois Policy Chicago’s new inspector general faces dicey job – Axios Video gaming terminal burglaries becoming huge cost to Oak Lawn and other suburbs, police say – Daily Southtown* Harmeet Dhillon on investigating Illinois schools for parental rights violations – FOX News Property tax relief ‘negligible’ for homeowners in Bears stadium bill that passed Illinois House – Chicago Sun-Times Renters seeking relief as rent spikes across Chicago adds to rising costs – CBS2 (Chicago) Chicago mayor to lobby state lawmakers to preserve $12M in potential lost revenue – FOX32 (Chicago) 3 dead, 8 hurt in Chicago weekend shootings – CBS2 (Chicago) Glock can’t appeal judge’s greenlighting of Chicago’s ‘switches’ suit: Judge – Legal Newsline DOJ seeking Illinois voter data to purge suspected noncitizens, documents suggest – Capitol News IL May Day protests across Illinois link labor, immigration rights and anti-war calls – Capitol News IL Wirepoints Home Paul Vallas: Chicago’s Long Ignored Food and Water Crisis – Chicago Contrarian Walgreens closing Chatham store at 86th and Cottage Grove due to violence, theft – CBS2 (Chicago) Supreme Court declines hearing Chicago gun sales case – Center Square Chicago loses 2,100 restaurant jobs as industry fights mandated wage hikes – Center Square Illinois diversity commission says businesses aren’t cooperating – Center Square A review of Pritzker scandals – Illinois Policy Column: Anti-Israel movement showing signs of life in Illinois Legislature – Champaign News-Gazette