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Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 7:37 am
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Watching the derailment horror-show in Ohio and thinking about all the different rail lines within a few miles of our house.
There but for the grace of God, etc.
– MrJM
Comment by MisterJayEm Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 8:16 am
Illini/Minny game is postponed due the Gophers having to deal with COIVD issues. Naturally that has trigged the medical experts on social media weighing in on COIVID issues.
Comment by Give Me A Break Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 8:18 am
Illinois-Minnesota game is rescheduled for Feb 20 at 8:00 pm.
Hope the MN players are feeling better. They’ve not had a great season, but I do want Illinois to beat them
Comment by Steve Rogers Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 8:24 am
a while ago the Trib redid their website, I hate it now more than ever. Maybe Rich could give them some tips
Comment by Todd Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 8:34 am
It’s not the FOP endorsement, it’s who he is, it is his family. Police.
Facebook details about Paul
I’m the son of a WW2 Veteran and two of my three sons were in the service and are now police officers. My wife is a former police officer. One of my children Paul Richard Vallas was a Navy Corpsman and served as Combat Medic for the 5th Marines, seeing combat action in Afghanistan. He is currently a Police Officer in Wheeling Illinois. Read my full bio below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vallas
Except the link has no details about the sons. And nothing here or there about one son, San Antonio involved in the deadly shooting. And searching for this on an iPhone is the only way I found the link. there, but buried.
Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 8:39 am
My alderman wants Chicago to move to ranked-choice voting. I think I’m going to strongly move in favor of that, if this does turn into a Paul Vallas-Lori Lightfoot runoff.
Comment by ZC Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 8:55 am
How is LRB handling the avalanche of bill requests? Do they need some coffee?
Comment by Dan Johnson Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 8:59 am
It’s a Florida case, but the same business is operating in Illinois, and I’ve gotten caught up in their scam. Going to be talking to the AG’s Office, IDPR, and Comptroller’s Offices later today. I’m going public with this because I don’t want any more grieving Illinoisans to fall for the same scheme.
Beware of doing a cremation with a firm called Legacy Cremations. The FTC prosecuted a class action lawsuit against them in Florida for a bunch of gruesome practices, (including secretly “loaning” your loved one’s body out to medical schools for teaching, before the cremation, without consent), but mostly, they withhold delivering the ashes and death certificates until you pay extra money, over and above your contracted advance payment. My mom passed just before Thanksgiving of 2022. I prepaid in advance for my mom’s cremation and still, no ashes or death certificates from Legacy, and they don’t know where her gold wedding ring is, either.
Besides the anguish of not knowing if they’ve lost mom’s body or her cremains, as the executor of her estate, it’s impossible for me to collect on the life insurance, sell her car, or transact business regarding her bank accounts social security, etc. without the death certificates, so the ongoing expenses regarding her business affairs are bleeding me dry, paying out-of-pocket. Legacy also operates under the name Heritage. They pretend to be a local Illinois company, but they are not. They contract with local crematoriums but are headquartered in Florida.
An odd thing most folks don’t know is that part of the supervision of funeral homes and crematories in Illinois is handled by a board that’s related to the Comptroller’s office. I’m hoping Comptroller Mendoza will get all up in Legacy’s grill over their deceptive practices. I’ll be contacting her office later today.
Comment by Give Us Barabbas Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 9:07 am
Glad to see the SJR has suspended reader comments. But I would imagine a couple of those regular policy giants are losing it not being able to comment on every single story.
Comment by Give Me A Break Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 9:19 am
I’m thinking that a runoff between Vallas and Garcia would be very interesting. Not sure how likely that is, but polls have been terrible for the incumbent.
Comment by Friendly Bob Adams Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 9:26 am
Give Me a Break,
But I thought all the amateur virologists and immunologists had moved on to becoming national security experts, how do they move back and forth so quickly?
Comment by cermak_rd Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 9:29 am
== Watching the derailment horror-show in Ohio and thinking about all the different rail lines within a few miles of our house ==
Borden’s and successor companies (or the rail lines) used to leave chemical tank cars sitting on a siding in south Springfield near the Iles junction until enough people raised Cain; then the tankers got moved somewhere else. I lived not very far away and used to worry about them. The junction had three rail lines come together / cross plus automobile traffic. It’s safer now after the high speed rail changes and the Stanford overpass, but I still wouldn’t want the tanker cars sitting about 4 blocks from my house, and one block from 2 schools.
Comment by RNUG Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 9:35 am
==Glad to see the SJR has suspended reader comments.==
Not only that, but I also wonder how much longer before the SJR goes all-paywall on all stories? It would not surprise me if that ever happens.
Comment by Stuck in Celliniland Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 9:37 am
===how do they move back and forth so quickly? ===
They’re all geniuses! Just ask ‘em
Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 9:42 am
Re: “Clarity Please”…
This is why electing judges is a bad idea. Elected officials are politicians, full stop. Having politicians as judges makes the courts just another political arena, and defeats the whole purpose of having a separate and co-equal judicial branch. Judges *shouldn’t* be accountable to the voters and their partisan preferences. They should be accountable to the Constitution and the rule of law.
Comment by ILLINI123 Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 9:54 am
= They’re all geniuses! Just ask ‘em =
Not just geniuses, stable geniuses. (Personally, I think that’s “stable” in the sense of, “that’s where you’ll find the hind end of a horse”.)
Comment by JoanP Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 10:11 am
@- Give Us Barabbas - Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 9:07 am:
Sorry to hear of the trouble you are getting in such a stressful time.
Check with the county records regarding a death certificate.
Comment by DuPage Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 10:56 am
second what DuPage wrote. so sorry that such terrible treatment involves the death of a loved one.
Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 11:40 am
Living in 60827, and thinking of the Ohio nightmare. I’ve got two rail yards within about a half mile of me, and my local Emergency Management/Civil Defense agency no longer has any hope of setting up shelters or equipment such as cots,chairs,etc.; unknown if we even have a director or staff left. The few vehicles are stored outside year-around for years now; haven’t seen one on the streets either. But hey, the Village Hall has a contingency plan in a binder, so we’re all good, right?
Comment by thisjustinagain Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 12:25 pm
Complaints filed with Professional Reg and the AG, and as I suspected they would, Mendoza’s people were first to the line, reaching out personally to try and help. I don’t know how much they can, but I’m grateful for attentive constituent services all the same. This is the kind of stuff government is for.
Comment by Give Us Barabbas Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 2:09 pm
It’s a pre-Spring day…here comes the Sun.
Comment by Dotnonymous Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 3:16 pm
I live within two blocks of railway tracks…rickety ones…carrying hexane…and benzene and what else?
I used to enjoy the sound of trains.
Comment by Dotnonymous Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 3:19 pm
Possible Paul Schimpf news soon.
Comment by Blue Dog Tuesday, Feb 7, 23 @ 5:20 pm