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* Sun-Times | Chicago groups scramble to find housing for newly arrived immigrants 6 months after busing began: Community groups and volunteers are stepping up to assist — and sometimes take into their homes — new immigrants seeking refuge around the Chicago area as shelters fill up and temporary housing spaces, including shuttered schools, spark controversy.
* Tribune | Madigan confidant was interviewed twice by FBI in years leading up to bombshell indictments: The first interview of Michael McClain, the speaker’s friend and ComEd lobbyist, came in August 2014, the same month that Madigan was secretly recorded by an FBI informant at his law firm discussing a desire to secure property tax business with a Chinatown developer, the filing shows.
* Daily Herald | ‘All-gender multiple-occupancy’ restrooms bill advances in state House: The text of the bill states its purpose is “to promote the privacy, safety, and gender inclusivity of all Illinois residents and visitors,” and that the measure should be “liberally construed” to carry out its purpose.
* WTTW | Chicago Teachers Union Under Fire From Within for Campaign Spending: A Chicago Teachers Union political action committee has donated more than $1 million to Johnson’s mayoral campaign, and union leadership is all in on Johnson, who is a paid CTU officer and Cook County commissioner.
* Daily Herald | Three school districts select lobbyist to fight Bears legislation: All three school districts whose boundaries include the Chicago Bears’ 326-acre Arlington Park property are now all on board in hiring a joint lobbyist to oppose, or at least amend, legislation that would give the franchise a massive tax break there.
* Baltimore Sun | Standardized exams keep Black social workers out, activists say. These Marylanders want to change that.: Starting in May, Wilkerson, 24, took the exam three times in four months. He spent his summer studying. He sank at least $1,300 into test preparation and fees. He failed each time ― by 10 points, by six points, and then by a single point.
* ABC Chicago | Illinois marijuana industry still falling short on social equity: According to the state’s report, in 2022, Black people made up only 1% of majority dispensary owners, as did Hispanic majority owners. Eighty-eight percent of the state’s dispensaries are white majority owned, and the remaining businesses are majority owned by people of two or more, or other races.
* TSPR | Prison classrooms in Illinois open doors to graduate degrees: Following its initial classes in 2015 blending traditional and incarcerated students for a certificate level program, the school launched the four-year master’s degree in 2018. Offering a master’s degree to men with decades or a lifetime left on their sentences was a key component to the program, said Vickie Reddy, a graduate of the first North Park cohort who now serves as North Park’s director of operations.
* Daily Herald | Charlie Kirk event could draw protests, organizers say schools topic ‘isn’t partisan’: Supporters said they see it as an opportunity to educate and offer solutions to problems in the state’s schooling system. Opponents say they view it as a dog whistle to attack certain groups and raise money.
* Sun-Times | ‘It’s a joke!’ City Council members grill Chicago police officials about extremists in their ranks: Chicago City Council members repeatedly expressed frustration Wednesday as police officials gave conflicting, sometimes puzzling reasons why they have not moved more aggressively against officers tied to far-right groups implicated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
* Sun-Times | Candidates in neighboring South Side wards aim to build business to reduce crime: Seven candidates in the 21st Ward are pushing alternatives to conventional policing, while in the nearby 18th Ward, only one candidate is challenging incumbent Ald. Derrick Curtis.
* WTTW | How Byproduct From Local Breweries is Helping Clean Our Wastewater: Using the carbon-rich spent yeast to reduce the amount of phosphorus in the water MWRD treats. If there’s too much phosphorus in the water, that can feed microorganisms that can harm waterways.
* News-Gazette | Schnucks VP who worked her way up returning to Champaign for United Way award: Now in her 26th year with Schnucks and vice president of store operations at the company’s headquarters in St. Louis, Brandt will be returning to her hometown of Champaign on Friday to accept an award from the United Way of Champaign County on behalf of Schnucks’ stores in Champaign, Urbana, Savoy and Mahomet.
* SJ-R | Springfield Police, Moving Pillsbury Foward, Public Works, win in city’s 2024 fiscal budget : City council members notably approved an amendment that put $2.3 million into a budget line to boost the salaries of Springfield Police officers.
* Crain’s | Northwestern professor on Biden’s shortlist for Fed vice chair: In the hunt for Lael Brainard’s successor, the White House is “focusing in” on Harvard University professor Karen Dynan, Northwestern University finance professor Janice Eberly and Morgan Stanley Chief Global Economist Seth Carpenter, according to a research note Tuesday from Tobin Marcus, an Evercore analyst who advised Biden on economic policy when he was vice president.
* Daily Beast | Google Just Got a Lot Closer to Unleashing the Power of Quantum Computing: “To our delight, our team was able for the first time to demonstrate in practice that qubits protected by surface code error correction can indeed be scaled to reach lower error rates,” he said. The team published a paper of their findings in the journal Nature on Feb. 22.
* WTVO | Pritzker, lieutenant governor grab funnel cakes in Rockford: Stratton posted pictures to her Facebook page, posing for pictures with Pritzker before they enjoyed some sweet treats. She pointed out the banana pudding and strawberry cheesecake funnel cakes as her favorite.
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Thursday, Feb 23, 23 @ 7:40 am
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===The first interview of Michael McClain, the speaker’s friend and ComEd lobbyist, came in August 2014, the same month that Madigan was secretly recorded by an FBI informant at his law firm discussing a desire to secure property tax business with a Chinatown developer===
My goodness… 2014…
You think about the alleged damage, (we’ll see in the trialS and how each trial will use the damage) McClain did by either sheer hubris or utter ignorance, breaking simple rules of writing down (including emails and letters) and using the phone with the wiretaps… but, “since 2014”… that’s a huge “wow”
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Feb 23, 23 @ 8:09 am
===All three school districts whose boundaries include the Chicago Bears’ 326-acre Arlington Park property are now all on board in hiring a joint lobbyist to oppose, or at least amend, legislation that would give the franchise a massive tax break there.===
The Gillespie Bears Bailout Bill is intended to help a billion dollar monopoly… and hurt the schools in return.
That’s real.
And it’s for a building that will need massive revocations in 20-25 years… with a 40 year “tax help”
A horrific bill.
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Feb 23, 23 @ 8:11 am
== while $40 million is set aside for permanent supportive housing. ==
Reading the rhetoric and running the numbers, they would be better off giving it all to Habitat for Humanity and letting them do both a housing and job training program.
Comment by RNUG Thursday, Feb 23, 23 @ 8:46 am
Re: Daily Hearald Charlie Kirk story
I have been trying to get include in Charlie Kirk’s “Professor Hit List” for almost a decade now. True story. I teach race relations, gender inequality, poverty and welfare, discrimination and prejudice, you name it. I even teach about slavery in Illinois, its transformation into indentured servitude through via the 1818 Constitution, etc.
Unfortunately, my Illinois-based students do not seem to think I am a radical professor when I discuss solutions like affirmative action in hiring and promotion, family wages, changing the ways we fund schools, etc.
My Illinois-based students just seem to think pluralism, measures designed to produce equal access for minorities, EEOC laws, etc. are not radical ideas for those wishing to become leaders in their communities and nations.
It seems Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk are not really interested in defending higher education. It almost appears he is simply interested in enriching himself through false promises made to conservatives.
Comment by H-W Thursday, Feb 23, 23 @ 9:59 am
I’ve been teaching part time at a Wisconsin college. The academic buildings at the college have many all-gender restrooms, and some are multiple-occupancy. It did feel strange to me at first, but that was only due to the novelty and it no longer feels unusual. This is in Wisconsin, mind you, and I haven’t seen any issue with the arrangement from others at or visiting the campus.
As for young children, parents of the opposite gender from their children have long taken them into the multiple-occupancy restroom of the parent’s gender. I’m not sure what the issue is other than general discomfort due to the same unfamiliarity I felt at first.
Comment by muon Thursday, Feb 23, 23 @ 11:04 am
== this funding could help develop over 90 new permanent supportive housing units ==
$40 million for just 90 units? Maybe they mean congregate living homes?
Comment by yinn Thursday, Feb 23, 23 @ 11:21 am
I’m fine with all-gender individual restrooms, but I’m not at all interested in all-gender multiple occupancy restrooms.
Comment by This is ridiculous Thursday, Feb 23, 23 @ 11:50 am
This is ridiculous,
I am fine with it if the stalls go up the ceiling and meet the floor. I would like it if there was a wash up place in the stall, too; so one doesn’t have to use the common sink, but I can live with that. It at first feels unsafe (what if an attacker is lying in wait) but, then, noone is actively monitoring any public bathroom I have ever been in to see who is going into any given bathroom, so that’s a pre-existing issue.
Comment by cermak_rd Thursday, Feb 23, 23 @ 12:02 pm
== $40 million for just 90 units? ==
I think they are mixing terms. When I dug into the article, it was something like 460 permanent units, which I took to be multiple occupancy buildings of some type, since that broke down to roughly $80k per unit.
Comment by RNUG Thursday, Feb 23, 23 @ 3:47 pm