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* Sun-Times | CPD’s former No. 3 official emerges as front-runner for interim top cop — and maybe an audition for permanent job: Fred Waller spent 34 years with the department, rising through the ranks before joining a parade of top brass who left during the turbulent tenure of former Supt. David Brown.
* Sun-Times | Expired food, infections, infestations reported at Chicago police stations serving as makeshift shelters for immigrants: “How do you let stuff out like that?” a police supervisor asked. “Even during COVID, when we were going through that, they were giving us hand sanitizer that was two years expired.” John Catanzara, the fiery president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, said bed bugs have been “a consistent issue.” There also has been a lice problem at the Near West District and cases of chicken pox at the Shakespeare District, according to Catanzara, who said it’s “improper” to use police buildings and resources to house immigrants.
* Daily Herald | Lake Forest megadonors eschewed suburban candidates in the first quarter, records show: The vast majority of donations from Lake Forest’s Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein went to Republican congressional campaigns in 21 other states and to national groups, records show.
* Tribune | FBI searched Ald. Jim Gardiner’s text messages amid probe into alleged $5,000 cash payment from developer, court records show: According to the July 24, 2020, affidavit, a cooperating witness saw Gardiner accept an envelope from a person while the two sat in the person’s black Mercedes Benz in May 2019. According to the unsealed records, Gardiner then passed the envelope on to the owners of the West Lawrence Avenue building in which his ward office was located as a “down payment” on new windows the alderman wanted installed. One of the owners counted out $5,000 in cash in the envelope, the search warrant application states.
* WAND | Pritzker pushes IL Medicaid customers to complete renewals for continued coverage as federal pandemic-era policies end: According to Pritzker’s Administration, in Illinois, there will not be a “coverage cliff,” where everyone loses coverage at one time. Rather, redeterminations will happen on a rolling basis through mid-2024. Everybody’s due date is different, and all Illinois Medicaid customers will have a chance to go through the redetermination process.
* Sun-Times | Medicaid renewal process resumes, putting thousands of Illinoisans at risk of losing coverage: Half a million Illinois Medicaid users could lose coverage in the coming months as a national auto-renewal program ends and they are required to reapply for the first time in three years.
* Crain’s | Guggenheim Partners readying move to Miami: Another pillar of Chicago’s financial community is headed toward the exits — and apparently has quietly slashed its Chicago workforce in recent months. Multiple industry sources report that Guggenheim Partners, an investment firm which has employed roughly 1,000 people in the West Loop, is on the verge of deciding to move its headquarters to Miami, the Florida city to which Citadel recently decamped.
* WBBM | Lightfoot offers no apologies for her sometimes combative style – especially not after Daley, Emanuel: “I’m a Black, queer woman,” she told WBBM Newsradio as she prepares to leave office. “I have always known my entire adult life that there’s a different set of rules and standards by which I’m going to be judged. That is not a surprise.”
* Tribune | Mayor Lightfoot loves libraries and gives the city a trio of new ones on South and West Side as parting gifts: Lori Lightfoot, the bruised outgoing mayor, has so far been reluctant to grant my Tribune colleagues’ requests for an exit interview, but she did offer some words for a news release, saying she looks “forward to seeing these new libraries become hubs of activity and lifelong learning.”
* Daily Herald | Supreme Court justice requests more information on Naperville gun sale ban: Barrett’s request comes after a Naperville gun shop owner asked her to temporarily halt enforcement of Naperville’s gun ban and Illinois’ similar ban while both are being challenged in lower courts.
* Pontiac Daily Leader | Rep. Jason Bunting settling into Springfield digs: “It has been drinking from a firehose since the fourth of February, but I think we’re finally getting settled in,” Rep. Jason Bunting told the Daily Leader in an interview Thursday morning. “And I might dare to say, even kind of enjoying it.”
* Patch | Hinsdale Central Admits Governor Not Coming: At the time, Hinsdale Central credited the school’s Student Liberal Association for inviting the governor. […] In its statement Monday, Hinsdale Central said, “Should the Student Liberal Association or another student group have a continued interest in Governor Pritzker or another state official coming to Hinsdale Central, the students will coordinate with the state official’s office and the Hinsdale Central’s building administration.”
* WBEZ | 150 years later, Dixon bridge tragedy among nation’s worst: “It’s not as though the bridge just collapsed and went straight down,” says Tom Wadsworth, 70, a retired magazine editor and expert on the calamity. “It turns over on top of these people. … As the (Chicago) Tribune said, the truss ‘fell over with the weight and imprisoned the doomed in an iron cage with which they sunk and from which there was no escape.’”
* AP | Hollywood writers, slamming ‘gig economy,’ to go on strike: The Writers Guild of America said that its 11,500 unionized screenwriters will head to the picket lines on Tuesday. Negotiations between studios and the writers, which began in March, failed to reach a new contract before the writers’ current deal expired just after midnight, at 12:01 a.m. PST Tuesday. All script writing is to immediately cease, the guild informed its members.
* Politico | My descent into TikTok news hell: But a Pew survey conducted last summer showed that “the share of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok has roughly tripled,” from merely 3 percent in 2020 to 10 percent last year. And as Rebecca Jennings pointed out in Vox before the 2022 midterm elections, organizers on both sides of the aisle are laser-focused on using it as a tool to reach voters.
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Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 7:46 am
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The Guggenheim Partners story isn’t so much a story about Illinois. It’s a story about how Florida, the last several years, has made a big effort to become a financial capitol.
Comment by Steve Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 8:15 am
So the writers strike is a thing now.
It’s soul crushing.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 8:16 am
I have long anticipated that the ban of unnecessarily violent weapons and accessories would reach the U.S. Supreme Court, even if the Illinois Supreme Court were to rule in favor of public safety.
The Daily Herald story indicating Justice Barrett wants more information suggests the issue may well be taken up sooner, rather than later. However, I cannot imagine a final ruling until next term.
Anyone have a sense of where Justice Barrett stands on the issue?
Comment by H-W Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 9:01 am
“Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is giving the city of Naperville until next Monday to provide further information regarding its local ordinance prohibiting the sale of certain high-powered weapons”
The Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA) law seems likely to face a harsh reality as SCOTUS begins its look at the law. The injunction will be just the first round. When the merits are ( eventually) considered against the Bruen precedent - there seems to be no option but to finally rule on “Assault weapons” bans. Up to now SCOTUS was loathe to act in such a direct manner, but with gun safety advocates from Blue states pushing on constitutional rights, the result may finally be a clear ruling prohibiting these bans nationwide.
Comment by Donnie Elgin Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 9:14 am
“Anyone have a sense of where Justice Barrett stands on the issue?”
Enjoy
https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2020/10/amy-coney-barrett-on-guns/
Comment by Donnie Elgin Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 9:20 am
Context…
- Donnie Elgin -…
===Of course, gun-related killings are always regrettable===
It’s important context when one is concerned “blue states” (yep, wanting an unsolicited political spin) are “taking away” guns…
… because, and it’s - Donnie Elgin -‘s own types words, killings are …
“regrettable”
Once it was acceptable by the - Donnie Elgin - types that killings are “regrettable”, it’s important for children especially that laws look at gun ownership…
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 9:33 am
TikTok news hell is terrifying.
Comment by Loyal Virus Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 9:35 am
I am fascinated by the concept of unnecessarily violent weapons. It suggests that it’s ok for a weapon to be violent, but there is point past which it can be too violent. It’s a ridiculous idea. Believing that banning certain weapons will make us any safer from violence is a particularly stupid reaction and completely ignores the root cause of mass violence and abhorrent behavior. It also lets government and society off the hook for actually finding a solution to the problem. But it does make self righteous liberals feel good about themselves, so there’s that… Cue nonsensical name calling response from Willy in 3…2…1.
Comment by Captain Obvious Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 10:22 am
Gun related deaths/massacres are “regrettable”, the price we must all pay for everyone who wants one. We have no choice or voice as SCOTUS imposes the the ideology of 6, unelected, unaccountable overlords on every aspect of our lives. We scrape the remains of our children and our families off of the floors of the latest mass murder site while Barrett, Kavenaugh, Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch construct convoluted rulings that provide guns for all and votes for some. We must change the oversight and selection of SCOTUS judges.
Comment by froganon Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 10:22 am
===It also lets government and society off the hook for actually finding a solution to the problem===
Just saying, but every other industrialized country in the world has decided that the root problem is, actually, widespread gun ownership. And their solutions work a whole lot better than ours.
Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 10:33 am
===At issue in the case was the constitutionality of applying 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the federal law that prohibits most felons from possessing firearms for life—to a man who had previously been convicted of mail fraud. Reagan-appointee Judge Joel Flaum wrote for the panel majority, upholding the law.===
Felons repeatedly caught with a gun should go to jail. The law is there, it needs to be enforced.
Comment by DuPage Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 10:36 am
===Cue nonsensical name calling response from===
Calling gun violence and children dying for going to school “regrettable” is not a strong policy that makes me a “liberal” to anyone.
Calling the deaths of any child, adult, “regrettable” so it’s “cool” to merely own a gun is a pathetic and sad self own.
I have fired many weapons, I’m in line to inherit “dozens” (plural) of guns at some point. You know nothing of me, my history, or the why I feel as I do, but I can tell you, at no point am I going to call a mass shooting with multiple casualties and/or deaths “regrettable”… and gun ownership will not supersede any thought I have that any weapon I have is worth more than a life, especially if regretting the ownership means saving a life.
But, “you be you”… “liberal” bating but “afraid” of a name calling comment?
You don’t have a spine to criticism, I can’t expect you to have a spine for a life over a gun.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 10:45 am
==But it does make self righteous liberals feel good about themselves==
Better than uncaring conservatives who show absolutely no remorse for the mass killings and only double down after every single one. I’d rather be called self righteous than be on the side of mass shooters.
Comment by Demoralized Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 11:01 am
@ Captain Obvious
I think we can all agree that weapons are instruments of violence. All weapons used to take life represent instruments of violence. As a pacifist, I would say the same in the context of self defense arguments. Self defense still implies the use of violence.
As to unnecessarily violent weapons, I will argue that the capacity to potentially kill more than 10 people with one load, as well as the ability to kill several dozen people with multiple loads, represents an unreasonable argument in terms of self defense, and thus represents the use of an unnecessary instrument of violence.
If a person needs more than ten kill shots, the person is in a war, not defending themself against an intruder.
If a person needs a .223 caliber bullet, the person is in a war, not defending themself.
But I am a pacifist. I do not find any justification for the taking of human life.
I am also a veteran, so at one point I did believe there were justifications for killing other people. I grew out of that mindset in my late thirties.
Comment by H-W Tuesday, May 2, 23 @ 11:02 am