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Isabel’s afternoon roundup
Tuesday, Jul 14, 2026 - Posted by Isabel Miller * It’s now signed into law…
WAND has more on the bill…
* WTTW | Illinois Confirms 194 Probable Cases of Cyclosporiasis as Parasitic Infection Spreads: The state has seen 194 confirmed and probable cases of cyclosporiasis as of Monday, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. In Chicago, there are 47 confirmed and probable cases among residents, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health on Monday. Of that number, 23 have not traveled internationally, making it more likely they acquired the illness locally, according medical director Dr. Janna Kerins. * Independent Gubernatorial candidate Collin Corbett is officially on the ballot…
* Capitol News Illinois | Pritzker signs new laws on birth control, AI regulations, play-based learning: Senate Bill 3341 allows minors to receive birth control without permission from their parents or another adult. With Illinois’ new law, half of states now allow minors to access birth control on their own. During debate on the bill in the Senate, Republicans objected and said it cuts parents out of important decisions concerning their children. They also worried minors won’t fully understand complications from birth control. * Press release | Historic House Speakers from Across the Nation to Gather in Chicago for “Beyond the Gavel” Brunch Celebration: Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch will welcome four of the nation’s most influential legislative leaders to Chicago for Beyond the Gavel, a first-of-its-kind brunch celebration honoring historic leadership, enduring legacy, and the impact of public service beyond elected office. Hosted during the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL), along the iconic Chicago River, the event will bring together five trailblazing House Speakers who have each made history in their respective states. * Tribune | After ballot challenges, at least 5 Chicago school board races will likely be uncontested: The Chicago Electoral Board voted Tuesday to remove five school board candidates from the ballot after upholding challenges to their nominating petitions, likely leaving at least five races uncontested in the historic November election. Current board members Angel Velez in District 9A on the South Side and Cydney Wallace in District 8B on the Southwest Side — who were appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson and are aligned with the Chicago Teachers Union — were among those removed. Their opponents will now be the only candidates in their respective districts. In District 10A on the South Side, Krista Nichols Alston was thrown off the ballot. The board hasn’t yet made an official ruling on candidate Tameka Walton, but she was endorsed by CTU as write-in candidate. That means elected incumbent Che “Rhymefest” Smith will likely be the only name printed on the ballot. * Tribune | City Council blocks Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago Housing Authority appointments: A special meeting in the council Housing Committee was quickly upended when Ald. Pat Dowell protested the direct introduction of three commissioners to the Chicago Housing Authority board. Dowell, Johnson’s Finance Committee chair, condemned what she said was a pattern from the administration of abusing the direct introduction process rather than taking the usual steps to bring proposals to the body. “These CHA nominations are not an emergency, and this administration continues to thwart the rules of order and procedure of the City Council as outlined in this document that we all voted on, and we cannot allow this pattern to continue,” Dowell, 3rd, said. * Block Club | Federal Funding Cuts To Permanent Housing For Homeless Could Leave More Chicagoans On The Streets: Deborah’s Place serves nearly 700 women, with about one-third living in federally funded Permanent Supportive Housing units. Its executive director, Kathy Wilson, fears that funding cuts will force them to convert their programs into shorter-term transitional housing, displacing housing-insecure people in the process. “All of the women that we’re serving have disabilities that would be barriers to them all of a sudden going out to get a full-time job. Many of them get Social Security or disability income, and that is not enough to afford fair-market rent,” Wilson said. “If we converted to transitional, they would have two years of a subsidy, and then they would be on the streets. * Daily Herald | People angry about fatal shooting of Mundelein woman again pack village hall in protest: It was the latest in a series of village board meetings dominated by people upset and enraged by the killing two months ago of 37-year-old Mary Alice Love in her family’s home. The 20-plus audience members who took to the lectern to talk about the case included Love’s parents, other relatives, friends and strangers. They alleged racism contributed to the fatal confrontation. They demanded the officer who fired the shots be fired. * Patch | Lake Co. Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Threatening Trump, Public Officials: The same day, Schneider appeared at the Lake County courthouse while involved in a pending foreclosure case and allegedly told the judge presiding over the case that he would burn the courthouse down. The case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service with assistance from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and the Winthrop Harbor Police Department. * Crain’s | Frustrated judge wants settlement in West Suburban hospital fight this week: A Cook County judge aired frustration with a newly appointed lawyer who still hasn’t been fully briefed on a potential settlement between the owners of shuttered West Suburban Medical Center and pressed both parties to come to an agreement by the end of the week. * Daily Herald | Neighbors who complained about smell from feed plant now battling warehouse proposal in Mount Prospect: The commission voted 3-2 Thursday to recommend approval of the zoning change to allow the warehouse. It paves the way for 1600 Bishop Partnership LLC to replace a four-story office building with a warehouse in excess of 90,000 square feet at the southwest corner of Kensington and Wolf roads in the village’s Kensington Business Center. The LLC is affiliated with the Wingspan Development Group, part of the Nicholas Family of Companies, which has its headquarters in the business park. * Elgin Courier-News | Elgin smoke shop seeks to add liquor to their inventory after THC ban: Abdul and Goma Musa’s request that they be allowed to expand Friday Tobacco at 968 Dundee Ave. into an adjacent unit so the brothers can sell packaged liquor won the endorsement last week of the Elgin Planning and Zoning Commission. Their application for a conditional use permit now heads to the Elgin City Council. Abdul Musa, who runs the store’s day-to-day operations, said many customers have told them they usually stop at a liquor store after visiting the tobacco shop, which is what prompted them to consider diversifying what they sell. * Daily Herald | Elgin issues alert after drinking water samples exceed allowable lead levels during test: The first set of test results from this year indicates a 90th-percentile value of 0.0185 mg/l, exceeding the 0.015 action level. According to a news release from the city, this period’s results are “much lower” than previous tests due to changes in the water treatment process. * WSIL | Mounds residents race to save belongings as floodwaters rise: Floodwaters rushed through neighborhoods in Mounds, forcing families to get what they could to stay dry with more rain in the forecast. Residents spent the day carrying out belongings and wading through water that reached knee-high in some areas of an apartment complex. […] As the water kept rising, the Mounds Fire Department called in boats from Mounds City to help rescue people trapped inside their apartments. Fire Captain Curtland Sawyer said he had never seen flooding like this before. * WCIA | Hotly contested Urbana apartment complex finds its final decision in round four: The vote was pushed back for a few different reasons; first, city council members said they wanted more time to learn about the details of the project. Last week, they said they wanted the developers to be at the meeting for a decision. Both of those asks were met, and now, and the city was ready for an answer. “What is the cost of choosing not to build? What is the cost of losing residents who cannot find a home that fits their needs?” said Champaign-Urbana resident Adani Sanchez. * WMBD | Peoria County now sending jury duty postcards instead of letters: Official summons from the Peoria County Jury Commission will now be sent as postcards instead of letters, according to a Peoria County Government Facebook post. The summonses are for petit and grand jury duty and include instructions on the next steps you need to take when you receive them. * The Hill | ICE plans to temporarily limit traffic stops following fatal shootings: reports: The shift comes after two high-profile deadly shootings during traffic stops Last week, agents shot and killed Lorenzo Sagrado Araujo in Houston, Texas. While ICE said he had weaponized his vehicle, other men in the van he was driving said the accusation was false, and that officers in unmarked vehicles trailed them before surrounding their vehicle on the driver and passenger sides. * The Telegraph | Why the internet is becoming so infuriating to use: And a growing number of “AI agents” are using them to carry out tasks on their users’ behalf, meaning there is no human to see adverts or be enticed into impulse purchases, and often harvesting data without their consent. Captchas and other bot tests are now ubiquitous. Cloudflare, which relies on other tests such as the “verify you are a human” tick boxes, says it now carries out 7.7 billion anti-bot checks a day, up from 2.1 billion in 2023. But bots have become better at evading them. Two years ago, researchers at the University of Zurich found that machine learning systems could solve 100pc of robot tests provided by reCaptcha, Google’s captcha system (the company is responsible for the quizzes asking you to click all the squares containing buses, bridges or fire hydrants out of a grid of 16 squares). * Albuquerque Journal | State, Roadrunner lure Illinois quantum startup to Albuquerque: The New Mexico Economic Development Department and Roadrunner Venture Studios awarded $500,000 in grant funding to Photon Queue, an Illinois quantum computing startup, to locate and hire in Albuquerque. Roadrunner Venture Studios is an Albuquerque firm that invests in early-stage deep technology startups such as Photon Queue, a two-year-old company, and provides them with resources to grow.
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- Just Me 2 - Tuesday, Jul 14, 26 @ 3:08 pm:
Can we have a QOTD on all the snarky reasons MJM can’t attend the Speaker brunch?