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Wednesday, Jul 12, 2023 - Posted by Rich Miller

* ISP

For the second year, the Illinois State Police (ISP) is reporting a decrease in the number of shootings on Chicago area expressways. At the midway mark for 2023, the Illinois State Police (ISP) is reporting the total number of Chicago area expressway shootings is down 23% compared to this time last year. The number of non-fatal injury expressway shooting in the Chicago area is down 50% compared to this time in 2022.

“The Illinois State Police’s dedication of additional resources has reduced shootings on Chicago area expressways for the second year in a row,” said ISP Director Brendan F. Kelly. “This year’s reduction in the number of shootings, on top of the decreases we saw last year, shows our actions to reduce violence on the expressway are effective and we will continue tackling shootings head-on to make the expressways safer.”

Expressway shootings have dropped from 109 in the first six months of 2021 to 59 so far this year, but that’s still more than two per week.

* Press release

Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today highlighted Illinois’ top rankings in CNBC’s 2023 Top States for Business publication - an annual report that ranks states based on 10 broad categories of competitiveness. This year, Illinois ranked in the top 10 in the nation for four categories of competitiveness, and six categories in the top 20. Illinois is ranked 17th best state for business, rising ahead two spots from the 2022 ranking and up from 30th in the 2019 ranking.

Highlights include:

    • #2 in the nation for infrastructure (up from #3 in ‘22)
    • #2 in the nation for education (up from #6 in ‘22)
    • #6 in the nation for access to capital (up from #8 in ‘22)
    • #9 in the nation for cost of living (up from #20 in ‘22)

Not mentioned is that CNBC ranked Illinois 39th for business friendliness, 33rd for the economy, 32nd for cost of doing business and 28th for workforce.

Minnesota ranked 5th overall, Michigan ranked 10th, Ohio was 12th, Indiana was 13th and Pennsylvania was 15th. Illinois, as mentioned above, was 17th.

* Can Illinois get some of this?

Florida Republican Governor and 2024 presidential contender Ron DeSantis quietly rejected hundreds of millions of dollars in federal energy funding, as the Biden administration touts the benefits of its marquee climate law on the campaign trail in battleground states.

The funding, totaling about $377 million, included hundreds of millions of dollars for energy-efficiency rebates and electrification as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, as well as money from the bipartisan infrastructure legislation that became law in 2021.

* Some of this is a bit of a stretch…

EXCLUSIVE — A freshman House Democrat may have violated federal law due to his “improper” Twitter usage, according to a right-leaning ethics watchdog group.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust is demanding that the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent and nonpartisan body that reviews misconduct allegations against lawmakers, “immediately investigate” if Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-IL) “has abused official resources for political purposes” by using the Twitter account for his campaign to post content from his congressional office and the House floor, according to a Wednesday ethics complaint obtained by the Washington Examiner. […]

Sorensen, a former weatherman who was elected in 2022, links on his campaign Twitter account to his official social media account. The congressman’s campaign account, as of this writing, also has a pinned tweet linking to “all of his official accounts” for social media, the watchdog noted in its complaint.

The complaint cites several Twitter posts from Sorensen’s campaign account that purportedly use official resources, including one from May 25 that shows the House floor with the caption, “It’s not even 11 o’clock on Thursday morning and every Republican left the House and went home.”

I reached out to Sorensen’s DC office and haven’t heard back. I’m not quite sure why someone can’t link to government accounts from a campaign account. The other way around would definitely be a problem.

* Background is here if you need it. From Jennifer Welch, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois…

“This is a sad day for Iowa residents who are facing a draconian 6-week abortion ban, a time when many people are unaware they are even pregnant. Abortion bans and restrictions do not stop people from having abortions, it just creates unnecessary and burdensome barriers to those most vulnerable like young people, immigrants, people living in poverty and people facing domestic violence. Already Illinois is welcoming more abortion patients than any other state; our doors are open and we are actively preparing for the waves of pregnant Iowans fleeing their home in search of care. We continue to fight for everyone to access the health care they need and deserve.”

* StudyFinds

To find out who is currently dealing with crippling amounts of stress, the WalletHub team compared more than 180 cities across 39 key metrics, looking at everything from unemployment rates and household income to health and divorce rates.

Chicago ranked 32nd most stressed, but Aurora was 147th out of 182.

* Isabel’s roundup…

       

4 Comments
  1. - Michelle Flaherty - Wednesday, Jul 12, 23 @ 3:36 pm:

    Hey, if FLA doesn’t want the money … perhaps CWLP and the city’s leadership could stop bemoaning change and start working to reduce the cost of making changes.


  2. - Loyal Virus - Wednesday, Jul 12, 23 @ 5:12 pm:

    Everyone should have a pollinator garden.


  3. - jackmac - Wednesday, Jul 12, 23 @ 6:15 pm:

    An average of two expressway shooting per day is still two too many. But it is good to see ISP and other authorities have clamped down — and have had some success — against what has seemed like lawless roadways.


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