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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Center of ‘Rape Email’ Denies Knowledge of Alleged Coverup
— The ex-campaign worker for Gov. J.B. Pritzker who is at
the center of an email in which a one-time Statehouse lobbyist alleged
government coverups of a rape and illegal state hiring says he’s completely
unaware of the purported incidents that have dogged him since the email became
public last year.
Forres...
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Illinois Playbook: Chicago map finally revealed — and delayed
Good Thursday morning, Illinois. You know it's December when
the headlines from Washington are about a government shutdown looming.
TOP TALKER
Two miniature trains zooming around the holiday tree in City
Hall might be a metaphor for the Chicago City Council’s Black and Latino
caucuses.
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Landmarks Illinois looking for Most Endangered sites worth preserving in state
Landmarks Illinois, a statewide historic preservation
advocacy nonprofit organization, is accepting nominations for its 2022 Most
Endangered Historic Places in Illinois. Nominations are due Jan. 10, 2022.
Sites included on Landmarks Illinois' Most Endangered
Historic Places in Illinois routinely receive a heightened le...
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Politicians turn to social media influencers in search of loyal audiences
As politicians enter the early stages of their 2022 primary
campaigns, many of them are forming casual relationships with social media
influencers to help boost their own visibility.
For example, Governor J.B. Pritzker attended a live,
late-night show in Chicago on Tuesday night and shared the stage with Shermann
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Pritzker takes infrastructure victory lap, touts efforts to 'Rebuild Illinois' in Quad Cities
Gov. JB Pritzker announced almost $94 million in new funding
for Illinois airports through the Rebuild Illinois Capital Improvement Program,
which he touted as “the most robust infrastructure upgrade in Illinois’
history.”
Rebuild Illinois — a systematic effort to improve the
state’s agin...
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Only a few cannabis workers in Illinois are unionized 2 years after full legalization. Organizers say corporate owners have put up fierce resistance.
“A lot of people running the industry don’t really seem to care about
even just the culture and the benefits of cannabis, let alone their
employees’ wellbeing,” said a budtender at Curaleaf’s Weed Street
dispensary in Goose Island. Cannabis workers pushing to unionize amid complaints of
low wages and rough working conditions claim they’ve face...
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Illinois releases district-level data for school report cards showing declines across all demographics. Many students didn’t take the test.
Illinois families from low-income communities and those living in some
of the wealthiest enclaves in the state found common ground this week,
with school district results from the state’s 2021 student assessmen...
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Illinois school report cards 2021: Search for elementary and middle school results
The Illinois Assessment of Readiness, or IAR, is the state’s federally
mandated measurement of students’ mastery of the Illinois Learning
Standards in English language arts and math in Grade...
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Illinois school report cards 2021: Search for your high school’s results on the SAT state assessment
In addition to the Illinois Assessment of Readiness, or IAR, the
Illinois Report Card also includes data from the the SAT, an Illinois
accountability assessment given to high school juniors. <...
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Illinois' cost of debt falls
This time last year Illinois—feeling
pandemic pressure atop self-inflicted financial woes—paid much more to
borrow from the muni market. Now it's benefitting from an improved
outlook on higher revenue and billions in federal aid.Illinois’
$400 million municipal bond sale Wednesday is the first in a string of
sales from issuers in the Land of Lin...
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
With statewide races ahead, there's room on the GOP bus: Today's Juice
With just six weeks to go until candidates
can start passing their petitions around, some big holes remain in the
lineup to run for statewide offices in the 2022 elections.With just six weeks to go until
candidates can start passing their petitions around, some big holes
remain in the lineup to run for statewide offices in th...
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
With statewide races ahead, there's room on the GOP bus: Today's Juice
With just six weeks to go until candidates
can start passing their petitions around, some big holes remain in the
lineup to run for statewide offices in the 2022 elections.With just six weeks to go until
candidates can start passing their petitions around, some big holes
remain in the lineup to run for statewide offices in th...
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Find out how your schools are doing on state report card
The Illinois State Board of Education has released school-
and district-level assessment data from the 2020-21 school year. |