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Isabel’s afternoon roundup
Monday, Nov 4, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * Lee Enterprises’ Brenden Moore with the latest early voting numbers…
* FYI…
* RTA Board Chair Kirk Dillard in the Sun-Times…
* BND | Where do IL House 114th District candidates Greenwood and Schmidt stand on the issues?: The race for Illinois State House of Representatives 114th District in the metro-east features the incumbent, Rep. Kevin Schmidt, R-Millstadt, against the previous incumbent, LaToya Greenwood, D-East St. Louis. Greenwood and Schmidt each completed a candidate questionnaire from the Belleville News-Democrat. * RiverBender | Senator Erica Harriss Honored as ‘Friend of Agriculture’ by Illinois Farm Bureau: “Since taking office, Senator Harriss has shown strong support for our local farming community and continues to maintain an open line of communication with our office and beyond,” said Paige Langenhorst, President of the Madison County Farm Bureau. “We appreciate her support and look forward to working together on policies and legislative ideas for the future.” * Sun-Times | Here’s why that early voting line was so long: “We are seeing some long lines,” said Max Bever, director of public information for the Chicago Board of Elections. “A good number of locations are bottlenecked today and some places over the weekend had upwards of three-hour long waits.” One reason for the long lines: Only one early voting site is open in each of the city’s 50 wards. On Election Day, thousands of precincts will be open. Early voters also tend to go to the nearest locations, or those in locations they are most familiar with. The downtown supersite also has been busy, but with 72 voting machines, the line moves much faster. * WTTW | Push to Use Cameras to Bust Chicago Drivers Who Park in Bus, Bicycle Lanes Finally Starts: Eight city vehicles will be equipped with cameras to enforce parking violations. Next year, six CTA buses on priority routes will be equipped with cameras to snap pictures of scofflaws. The program will also be used to ticket cars parked at an unpaid meter, officials said. After the incriminating photo is reviewed by city staff — much like the speed violations captured by cameras mounted near schools and parks — the registered owner of the vehicle will get a ticket in the mail. Violators will get a warning until Dec. 4, and the first ticket for each driver will also serve as a warning, officials said. * Tribune | Decades-long uptick in attacks on transit workers, including on the CTA, carries implications for employees and riders: In 2023, there were 90 major assaults on CTA workers: 52 on bus employees and 38 on rail workers, federal data shows. Across both bus and rail, it was the highest number of major attacks on employees since at least 2008, the data shows. Complete data isn’t yet available for 2024, but through June there had been 13 attacks on rail workers and 26 on bus workers. * ABC Chicago | CTA increasing train trips by 20 percent for fall schedule: This will add more than 1,200 weekly rail trips, a 20-percent increase from the spring schedule. The CTA hopes to return service to pre-pandemic levels by the end of this year. * Sun-Times | CTA Yellow Line train operator in crash faces firing under alcohol use rules — but agency can’t take action yet: The employee faces automatic termination under employment rules, but the CTA hasn’t had the opportunity to begin disciplinary action because the operator remains off the job due to injuries he suffered in the November 2023 crash. * Block Club | Rogers Park Squirrels Dying In Droves — Likely Due To Rat Poison: ‘It’s Terrifying’: Hadden’s office has been “investigating” in recent weeks and is reaching out to local building management companies, she said. “Right now, it seems it just might be an individual doing this,” Hadden said. “If you are that individual, please stop.” When reached by Block Club on Thursday, Hadden said there was no update. Police did not return a request for comment. * Daily Herald | Battle for control of U.S. House includes suburban matchups: A music school owner, a software consultant and a real estate agent are among the Republicans hoping to unseat Democratic congressional representatives serving the North, West and Northwest suburbs. Even though state lawmakers deliberately drew the borders for the suburban congressional districts to favor Democratic candidates, none of the incumbents is getting a free pass to reelection. Every one of them has a challenger. * Daily Herald | Buffalo Grove Fire Department performed largest smoke detector installation blitz in Illinois: The Buffalo Grove Fire Department (BGFD) installed 539 smoke detectors in senior housing units from Oct. 22-24, marking the largest effort of any fire department in the state participating in the “blitz.” Approximately 50% of the units had no fire protection (no detectors, bad batteries or old batteries). * Tribune | Politics feel like a circus? Go see ‘The Great Farce,’ an art exhibit now at Northwestern: Some of the obvious faces in “The Great Farce” — marching, firing rifles, waltzing, greeting Native Americans in pre-colonial wilderness — include Donald Trump and Julius Caesar. I spotted Napoleon in there. And Marie Antoinette, George Washington, Idi Amin. They have the ghostly, gliding marionette aura we associate with motion-captured digital bodies. And also, the crazed, undead faces of children’s drawings. All of it is shown against a backdrop so kinetic, stuffed and saturated with color, it’s as if we are seeing it from behind a kaleidoscopic downpour of ticker tape in Times Square. * Lake County News-Sun | Lake County Black Lives Matter co-founder going to jail on contempt charge: ‘They said I was trying to incite a riot’: Black Lives Matter in Lake County had to scrap plans this year for a traditional Thanksgiving turkey and ham giveaway, along with taking underserved children on a school-break field trip, because its co-founder Clyde McLemore is headed to jail to serve a negotiated 40-day sentence for contempt of court, starting Wednesday. The misdemeanor charge stemmed from his taking cell phone photos during a Lake County court hearing in August and posting them on social media. McLemore, 65, also posted a video admitting to the breach in protocol. Although he had a press pass, he was not properly credentialed through court services, authorities said. * Lake and McHenry County Scanner | County board advances plans for path project anticipated to be most popular path in Lake County: The Lake County Board is looking to spend $30 million to build what they hope will become one of the county’s most popular paths extending from Libertyville to Naval Station Great Lakes. The Lake County Board approved a resolution at its Oct. 8 meeting moving segments 2 and 3 of the proposed Patriot Path into Phase II Engineering. * WCIA | Iroquois Co. burn ban lifted after three weeks: Ashkum Fire Chief Jeff Glenn determined the decision as the President of the Eastern Illinois Mutual Aid Fire Association, and announced it to the Iroquois County Emergency Management Agency. Glenn put the ban on place on Oct. 11. “Recent rainfall has provided enough moisture to safely remove the burning restriction,” Iroquois County EMA Coordinator Scott Anderson said. * SJ-R | Ten-story Myers Building in downtown Springfield to go on auction block: The nearly century-old Myers Building in downtown Springfield is going up for auction, one of its heirs and minority owners confirmed to The State Journal-Register. The ten-story building at the southwest corner of Fifth and Washington streets was the longtime location of Myers Brothers Department Store, which later became Bergner’s before closing in 1989. The building had been for sale, said Michael Myers, 79, a Springfield attorney, and its last major tenant was the Illinois Treasurer’s Office, which moved to the former Marine Bank. * WSIL | Millstone Water District informs customers of arsenic levels above drinking water standards: We routinely monitor for the presence of drinking water contaminants. Testing results we received on Monday, October 7h, 2024 show that our system exceeds the standard, or maximum contaminant level (MCL), for arsenic. The standard for arsenic is 0.010 milligrams per liter (mg/L). The average level of arsenic over the last year was 0.011 (mg/L). * 60 Minutes | Doctors say strict abortion laws in Texas put pregnant women and their physicians at serious risk: In 2023, Dani Mathisen joined 19 women with similar stories in a lawsuit against the Texas government for denial of care. The lawsuit did not seek to overturn the bans. rather, to clarify which exceptions were allowed under the law. The Texas Supreme Court ultimately rejected their case. But after the women filed their lawsuit, Texas legislators quietly passed a new law to include two exceptions to the ban – one for ectopic pregnancies – when a pregnancy occurs outside the uterus. the other, when a woman’s water breaks prematurely. * Migration Policy Institute | Explainer: Noncitizen Voting in U.S. Elections: Claims that migrants are being allowed into the United States so they can vote rest on the unfounded assumption that immigrants can quickly become voters. But to become U.S. citizens and thus be eligible to vote, immigrants must first receive legal permanent residence (aka getting a green card) and typically spend five years in that status (three if married to a U.S. citizen) before becoming eligible to naturalize. In the case of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, they face a complicated path of a decade or longer to U.S. citizenship and may not ever have any pathway at all.
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After calls for her resignation, Harmon says Feigenholtz ‘will need to do additional work in order to rebuild trust with her colleagues and constituents’
Monday, Nov 4, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * Background is here if you need it. From Senate President Don Harmon…
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GOP pollster has Sorensen ahead by 6; Fioretti closing ad focuses on Dem opposition to Burke; Suburban man charged after punching election judge
Monday, Nov 4, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * Republican pollster shows Democrat leads in CD17…
More here. * Republican state’s attorney candidates uses Democrats against Democratic opponent in broadcast TV ad…
* I hope we don’t see too much of this tomorrow, but hope is not a plan…
* More Center Square huffing…
* 17th Congressional District… * Rockford Register Star | Illinois 17th: Heated race for congress pits former weatherman against former judge: This is is a key race in the 435-seat House where Republicans hold a slim eight member majority with three seats vacant. It is listed as one of 70 competitive Congressional House races by the Cook Political Report. but likely to be won by the Democrat. Although Sorensen retains a sizable cash advantage, Republicans have poured money into McGraw’s campaign in an effort to flip a seat red. * WBEZ | Illinois’ 17th Congressional seat gets competitive in matchup between incumbent Eric Sorensen and Joe McGraw: Sorensen is Illinois’ first openly gay U.S. representative. He spent most of his career as a TV meteorologist in Rockford and the Quad Cities. “I don’t have a background in politics, which means I can be a different kind of person in Washington,” he said. Sorensen chatted with WBEZ after a campaign event in Green Valley, just south of Pekin, where he had received the endorsement of ACTIVATOR — the Illinois Farm Bureau’s political arm. “He was one of only four Democrats to vote for the farm bill out of the House Ag committee, and for that we’re grateful,” said Mike Deppert, president of the Tazewell County Farm Bureau. “We need more bipartisan leadership and Congressman Sorensen is… exhibiting that.” * Advocate | Gay U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen bridges divide in rural Illinois: Since taking office, Sorensen has been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, standing up to a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric that has made its way from the states to the halls of Congress. “We have taken some incredibly terrible votes on LGBTQ rights that are so hurtful,” Sorensen reflected. “Sometimes I wonder to myself, where are we? Where are the people that should be standing up and shouting that this isn’t OK?” * Rockford Register Star | Joe McGraw campaigns on border crisis, ‘transgender agenda’ in battleground Illinois race: McGraw also accuses Sorensen of “embracing the transgender agenda,” in which puberty blockers are made available to underage children “without parental consent or knowledge” and children born male can play sports on a female team. He also says that Sorensen sponsored “drag shows for kids.” Sorensen denies these accusations and major news outlet fact checkers have reported that parental consent is required across the U.S. for transitioning surgical procedures and non-surgical gender-affirming medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapies. * Rockford Register Star | In a heated race for Congress in Illinois, Democrat Eric Sorensen pledges to keep promises: Ahead of his last election, Sorensen said it was all about “protecting our democracy and securing reproductive rights.” Although he says there are other critical issues including the passage of a new farm bill to protect agriculture at stake in this election, those remain priorities as he faces Republican Joe McGraw, a former Rockford area circuit court judge. * Cook County State’s Attorney race… * Patch | O’Neill Burke, Fioretti Vie For Cook County State’s Attorney Job: 2024 Election: O’Neill Burke caught criticism when she proclaimed after her primary victory that she was unfairly cast as the “tough-on-crime choice.” “I think a lot of the concern was unfair that I was going to be very hard on crime. I want to be effective. That doesn’t mean we’re going to lock everybody up,” O’Neill Burke said in her victory speech. * Tribune | In ‘weird’ Cook County state’s attorney’s race, O’Neill Burke — who progressives called a ‘de facto’ Republican — looking to defeat GOPer Fioretti: For O’Neill Burke, a former appellate court judge, that’s by design. Playing defense is the smart move for a Democratic nominee in a county that hasn’t elected a Republican as state’s attorney since 1992. After her defeat of Clayton Harris III in which she amassed and spent about $3.6 million, the retired judge slowed down fundraising efforts and she raised only about $620,000 since April, not counting a fundraiser she held Monday. Yet O’Neill Burke’s tamped-down fundraising is still better than Fioretti’s. The personal attorney and former South Loop alderman who has already waged and lost several countywide and citywide campaigns has raised less than $300,000 since the start of this run, making him unable to take his message to a broader audience. * Sun-Times | In race for Cook County’s top prosecutor, it’s Democrat Eileen O’Neill Burke vs. Republican Robert Fioretti: It’s been more than three decades since Cook County voters elected a Republican to lead the state’s attorney’s office, but Democratic candidate Eileen O’Neill Burke says she’s running like the underdog in the race. “I am running like I am losing,” she told the Sun-Times in a recent interview. “We are out in every community every single day. We’re working long days.” * Elected Chicago school board… * NBC Chicago | Endorsement guide for the 2024 Chicago Public Schools Board elections: The 2024 elections are just days away, and while voters will be deciding on the next President of the United States and members of Congress, voters in the city of Chicago will also be electing Chicago Public Schools Board members for the first time. The elections follow a tumultuous few months for the district, which included the full resignation of the previous Board, the appointment of seven new members by Mayor Brandon Johnson and the recent resignation of appointed president Rev. Mitchell Johnson over antisemitic and misogynistic remarks. * WBEZ | Mayor Johnson vs. Donald Trump? In CPS School Board races, big money defines messaging, voters’ choices: Jennie Jiang is still deciding who’ll get her vote in Chicago’s 3rd District school board race on the Near Northwest Side. But as she looks for information ahead of Tuesday’s election, she’s found herself “annoyed at the messaging and the politics.” One ad she received claimed a candidate would raise her property taxes 40%. Another claimed the opposing candidate was supported by former President Donald Trump and would gut the public schools. * WBEZ | CPS School Board: The race in the North Side’s 4th District: Like many districts in Chicago’s first-ever school board elections, progressive and conservative groups have coalesced behind two opposing candidates in the North Side’s 4th District. But that doesn’t tell the whole story in this district, where there are six candidates with varying views on key education issues. The lakefront district is one of the city’s wealthiest, with 33 schools in Lincoln Park, Lake View, North Center and most of Uptown. All six candidates are Chicago Public Schools parents and all have worked in education in some form. * Sun-Times | Who are the people who will vote in Chicago’s school board elections?: A WBEZ analysis finds that a majority of voters could be Chicagoans who don’t have kids currently enrolled in Chicago Public Schools. Roughly 3 in every 4 Chicago households don’t have kids, according to data from the 2022 American Community Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau. And nearly 1 in every 6 Chicago students — of those enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade — attend private school. * Beatriz Diaz-Pollack and Zindy Marquez | Chicago school board election is about the fight for public education: The truth is, this election is about much more than the dollars funneled into the race by special interests. That analysis is important, but ultimately reductive, focused on shorter-term outcomes such as how it will impact the next labor contract or the cementing of “school choice” policies. The true question is: Will we reaffirm our commitment to public education as a public good to serve all of our children? Access to quality education should not be a privilege for those who can afford it or win it through a competitive system, but a fundamental right. The school board election is an opportunity to choose candidates who will protect public education, rather than funnel public dollars into privatized models under the guise of “school choice.” * The Columbia Chronicle | Chicago makes history with first school board election: One of the biggest issues for many parents and voters is the selective enrollment system that CPS uses for high school. There are 11 selective enrollment high school programs designed to provide academically advanced students with a challenging pre-college experience. Applicants can apply to up to six of these programs, but seats are limited and admission is highly competitive. * Chalkbeat Chicago | Chicago high schoolers get a crash course on the city’s first school board election: A handful of Jimenez’s students, like Odeth, are of voting age this year, he said. One of them is 18-year-old Luis Garcia, a senior at Hancock. Like Odeth, he didn’t know about Chicago’s first school board candidates until he took Jimenez’s class. Luis said he knows where he stands politically. But in Jimenez’s class, he learned that “it’s good for me to learn about the other side.”
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More on election security
Monday, Nov 4, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * Federal Bureau of Investigation…
* ABC Chicago…
* Yesterday in Will County…  He was a pollwatcher for the Will County Republican Party, according to Jack Londrigan, who took the photo. What I was able to find out about the patches:
- The US Department of Justice classified the Fugarwe Tribe as an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (not to be confused with the Outlaw motorcycle club) in 1991. Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs are organizations whose members use their motorcycle clubs as conduits for criminal enterprises. - Blackstone: Blackstone, IL is the location of Fugarwe‘s Illinois Chapter. -F.F.F.F.: Fugarwe forever, Forever Fugarwe. - You can see the patch that puts the F’s in a swastika/iron cross formation. * Meanwhile, WAND…
* KWQC…
* Shaw Local…
* More…
* WMBD | Voters are going to the polls in even higher numbers a week out from election day: Some voters in Tazewell County say they went out and voted early to beat the lines. “I wanted to avoid any crowd on Election Day,” said Mark Allen, a Tazewell County resident. “Very easy, two or three minute delay in line, and the process didn’t take much time once I got to the room where you cast your ballot.” * IPM News | Champaign County Clerk discusses efforts to prevent voter intimidation: Champaign County State’s Attorney Julia Rietz said she will pursue charges against those who break election law or threaten the safety of voters and election staff. “We want people to come into the polling place in that 100-feet zone and be able to exercise their right to vote freely and fairly, without restriction and without drama, without issue from other voters,” she added.
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Showcasing The Retailers Who Make Illinois Work
Monday, Nov 4, 2024 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] Retail provides one out of every five Illinois jobs, generates the second largest amount of tax revenue for the state, and is the largest source of revenue for local governments. But retail is also so much more, with retailers serving as the trusted contributors to life’s moments, big and small. We Are Retail and IRMA are dedicated to sharing the stories of retailers like Kasia and Britni, who serve their communities with dedication and pride.
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Question of the day
Monday, Nov 4, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller
* New Trier High School senior Logan Gouss…
* Last year, Rep. Kam Buckner introduced HB4168…
The bill did not move. * The Question: Should Illinois lower the voting age? Explain your answer please.
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C’mon, Harry
Monday, Nov 4, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * My weekly syndicated newspaper column…
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Your early voting reports
Monday, Nov 4, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * What have you seen or experienced at early voting sites so far this year and particularly over this past weekend? Let us know where you are. Thanks.
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Chicago Bears open thread
Monday, Nov 4, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * The horror. The horror.
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Open thread
Monday, Nov 4, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * What’s going on in your part of Illinois?…
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Isabel’s morning briefing
Monday, Nov 4, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * ICYMI: Illinois faces a $3 billion shortfall in 2026, a new report shows. WBEZ…
- To confront the problem, it’s not clear whether the governor and Democratic supermajorities in the Illinois House and Senate would favor tax or fee increases; spending cuts; delays in paying state bills; use of the state’s $2.2 billion rainy day fund; or a combination of those choices. - The governor’s Office of Management and Budget estimates that year-over-year sales tax revenues — one of the main revenue drivers of the state budget — will decline slightly in Fiscal Year 2026. * Sun-Times | Powerful suburban Chicago political operation fueled by Uihlein money spends millions on far right causes: Doug Truax has nurtured small, politically conservative groups based in west suburban Downers Grove into a sprawling empire of organizations pushing far right agendas and election denialism — buoyed by contributions of more than $150 million from Illinois’ Richard Uihlein, one of the country’s biggest Republican donors. * WAND | Illinois State Board of Elections monitoring social media for misinformation: Early voting expanded for suburban Cook County and the city of Chicago last week, but that also led to an increase in misinformation. State leaders saw a post on X, formerly Twitter, noting a suburban polling place was destroying ballots and tricking voters. “There’s no truth whatsoever to it,” said Illinois State Board of Elections spokesperson Matt Dietrich. “What had happened in this early voting site in Schaumburg was they had a problem with one of the tabulators. These things happen in every election. Those tabulators are very sensitive pieces of equipment.” * Pantagraph | Illinois Democratic elected officials hit the campaign trail for Harris: As a result, Duckworth and other Illinois elected officials, including Gov. JB Pritzker, other statewide constitutional officers and state lawmakers, have hit the road, traveling to crucial battleground states in the Midwest and across the country to campaign for Harris and Democrats down the ballot. * Nadig | State Senator Martwick faces challenge from Republican Luers in 10th District: In the Nov. 5 general election state Senator Robert Martwick (D-10) faces a challenge from Republican Jon Luers, who in 2022 ran an unsuccessful write-in campaign. Martwick, an attorney and former prosecutor, was first elected to the Illinois House in 2012 and in 2019 he was appointed to the Senate after John Mulroe left his District 10 seat to become a judge. Martwick also has served as a Norridge trustee but now lives in Chicago and serves as the 38th Ward Democratic committeeperson. * Pantagraph | Illinois Statehouse reporter Brenden Moore’s predictions: In the General Assembly, Democrats will maintain their supermajorities. I’d expect no change in the 40-19 Democrat-to-Republican makeup of the Senate. But Democrats appear primed to gain seats in the House, where they hold a 78-40 advantage over Republicans. If I were a betting man, I’d say Democrats net three seats.
* Jennifer Bishop Jenkins | Marsy’s Law has been putting crime victims at the forefront for 10 years: It has now been 10 years since the good citizens of Illinois overwhelmingly voted, by one of the highest margins in state history, to approve expanded and enforceable rights for crime victims. The constitutional amendment known as Marsy’s Law was adopted on Nov. 4, 2014, and has, in the words of one Illinois state’s attorney, been “transformative for crime victims.” Prior to the passage of the new language, crime victims’ rights had been few and were symbolic, lacking any legal means of enforcement. * WMAY | AG: Illinois joins coalition of states calling for ban on price gouging: This past week, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced the state would join a coalition of 15 attorneys general urging Congressional leaders to pass a national ban on price gouging. While price gouging is unlawful in Illinois and more than 40 other states, there is no federal law specifically banning businesses from raising prices on essential goods to increase their profits during an emergency. * Tribune | Testimony from ex-campaign worker who sparked Madigan’s #MeToo moment could add intrigue to corruption trial: Seven years ago almost to the day, Alaina Hampton sent a private letter to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan about sexual harassment from a co-worker that became a turning point in Madigan’s record-setting reign. “I do not want to hurt any of you — I care very deeply about people involved,” she wrote in the letter, which she later made public. “I only needed to tell you because it has been very painful to experience alone.” * Center Square | Former staffer claiming harassment expected to testify in Madigan corruption trial: Former Democratic Party of Illinois campaign worker Alaina Hampton is expected to take the witness stand after former Madigan and Democrat staffer Will Cousineau. Cousineau began testifying Tuesday afternoon, continued Wednesday and Thursday, and was expected to return to the stand for additional cross-examination on Monday morning. * Tribune | All politics is national. Illinois may be flyover country for presidential candidates, but their campaign themes dominate local races.: Illinois has been flyover territory for the nation’s presidential candidates, its preference for Democrats assured since 1992 when it chose Bill Clinton over George H.W. Bush, who had won the state and the election four years earlier. But some of the themes Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have emphasized heading into Tuesday’s election are being echoed in campaigns throughout Illinois’ down ballot contests. * Crain’s | Johnson was in the dark on CPS board pick’s comments because of a vetting ‘gap’: Mayor Brandon Johnson said today he was unaware of the inflammatory social media posts that led to the resignation of his pick to lead the Chicago Board of Education because of a “gap” in the vetting process. Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson resigned the position he was sworn into less than a week earlier yesterday after a groundswell of calls, including from Gov. JB Pritzker and 40 members of the City Council, for him to step aside after past antisemitic, conspiratorial and misogynistic Facebook comments were unearthed. * Block Club | Revolution Brewing Closing Logan Square Brewpub After Nearly 15 Years: Revolution’s brewpub at 2323 N. Milwaukee Ave. will close Dec. 14 after almost 15 years in business, the company announced Saturday. It will consolidate into its brewery and taproom location a 2240 N. Kedzie Ave. The brewpub served up food as well as Revolution’s line of beers, helping popularize brews including Anti-Hero IPA. But the brewpub operated “more as a restaurant” than the Kedzie Avenue location, which doesn’t have a kitchen, Revolution founder Josh Deth said in an interview. * WBBM | Chicago mortgage lender accused of redlining fined $105K: The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that Chicago-based Townstone Financial will pay a $105,000 fine for allegedly discouraging loan applicants based on their race or where they wanted to live. The watchdog agency accused the company of calling predominantly Black neighborhoods “crime-ridden” and “the jungle” in marketing programming that aired on the radio and on podcasts in 2020. * FOX Chicago | Chicagoland residents urged to conserve water ahead of heavy rainfall: The area was hit by scattered showers Sunday and heavy rainfall is expected to begin Monday with more wet weather Tuesday. After consecutive days of rain, there is less capacity for the MWRD to hold and treat the additional water. * Tribune | In 1949, a union official invited colleagues to his Englewood home. Some were Black. Violence ensued.: Race riots were a sadly persistent theme of American history. But this one was a bit different. In 1949, on Chicago’s South Side, white people fearful of Blacks moving into their neighborhood were pitted against whites who sympathized with Blacks who had been denied their civil rights. Bindman didn’t foresee that issue when he bought the house on Peoria Street. Bindman and his wife, Louise, were nonobservant Jews and former members of the Communist Party. But they hadn’t bought a home in Englewood in order to preach the gospel of Karl Marx in a working-class neighborhood. They simply needed an affordable place to live in a post-World War II era when the price of homes was skyrocketing. The Bindmans previously lived in a one-bedroom apartment in the Kenwood neighborhood and wanted to start a family. * Shaw Local | DuPage County State’s Attorney, clerk’s office to monitor polling places: The DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office will deploy teams of assistant state’s attorneys and Investigators to respond to reports of any suspected irregularities that may arise at DuPage County polling locations on Election Day. Prosecutors and investigators will be available at the state’s attorney’s office and at the polls from 6 a.m. through 7 p.m. Nov. 5 to respond to suspected violations of the Illinois Election Code. * Sun-Times | Tuberculosis outbreak reported at Elmhurst University: DuPage County health officials are investigating cases of tuberculosis reported this week in students at Elmhurst University. Two students tested positive for the contagious infectious disease Thursday, Elmhurst University President Troy VanAken said in a statement. They have been isolated and placed under medical supervision. The school and the DuPage County Health Department said they have been working to identify and contact people who may have been in close contact with the two infected students. Those who were in close contact with them are being provided with free testing. * Daily Herald | What suburban parents need to know about rise of ‘walking pneumonia’ in children: “We are definitely seeing a lot more pneumonia, in general, across the board, from toddler to school-aged children and teenagers,” said Dr. Molly Antoniolli, a Vernon Hills pediatrician with Endeavor Health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in early October reported the uptick in infections caused by the bacteria mycoplasma pneumoniae, which can cause walking pneumonia. According to recent CDC studies, the percentage of infection from this particular bacteria increased from 1% to 7.2% among children ages 2 to 4 years old and 3.6% to 7.4% in children ages 5 to 17 years old. * WCIA | Security hired to patrol Champaign Co. voting locations: Champaign County is ramping up security ahead of Election Day. For the first time, Clerk Aaron Ammons is bringing in an outside organization to patrol various polling locations. “I never really sort of thought we’d have to go this far,” Ammons said. * SJ-R | County-wide, county board seats up for election. Here are some key races on the ballot: A.D. “Andy” Van Meter, who has spent 30 years on the county board and 24 years as chairman, is locked in a rematch with Maureen Duffy Bommarito. The two are neighbors in Leland Grove. In 2022, Van Meter won by a little less than 13 percentage points in the District 24 race. * Tom Kacich | Biggest backers of tax increase for Mahomet-Seymour schools? Contractors : Some of the biggest backers of Tuesday’s proposed $112 million construction-related tax increase for Mahomet-Seymour schools are contractors who would benefit from the work. Citizens for Mahomet-Seymour Schools is the advocacy group supporting the bond referendum, which would increase property taxes by nearly $1 per $100 of assessed valuation. Estimates show the district’s tax rate would rise from $4.63 to $5.59 per $100 of assessed valuation. * WCIA | Muncie may reverse a 100-year-old no-alcohol ordinance: For almost 100 years, alcohol has been illegal to buy in Muncie, Illinois. However, that trend may change in the very near future. An ordinance that’s been on the books for about a century is now on the ballot for the small Vermilion County village. Muncie has been a dry village since prohibition. Mayor Synthia Lane said they’re the only village in the township that can’t sell alcohol, and maybe in all of the county. * WaPo | Quincy Jones, musical innovator and impresario, dies at 91: From bebop to hip-hop, Quincy Jones exemplified the producer and arranger as star. He elevated the voices of dozens of entertainers — most indelibly Michael Jackson, but also Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Aretha Franklin — with his unsurpassed artistry in combining jazz, rhythm-and-blues and classical orchestration. By the time of his death on Nov. 3 at 91 at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, he had become a renaissance impresario of music, film and television, catapulting the careers of Oprah Winfrey and Will Smith and smashing barriers for other African Americans. Mr. Jones’s death, of undisclosed causes, was announced by his publicist, Arnold Robinson, and in a family statement. * WIRED | Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out: Muldrow and the rest of her canvassing group of roughly a dozen people had just been fired en masse, after WIRED reported that they had been tricked and threatened as part of Musk’s get-out-the-vote effort. Speaking publicly for the first time about her ordeal, Muldrow says that the canvassers in her group were fired with little explanation beyond a complaint that someone had spoken with the press. Many, including her, were still owed money. Muldrow had to find her own way home; others are still stranded in Michigan. * US Department of Labor | Reports distressed pension assistance program has protected benefits for more than 1.2M workers, retirees, families: Today President Biden will travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to announce that the Biden-Harris Administration has protected more than 1.2 million pensions because of the American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) Butch Lewis Act, according to a new report from the Department of Labor. During the visit, President Biden will announce actions to prevent cuts to the earned pension benefits of 29,000 United Food and Commercial (UFCW) workers and retirees, primarily in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey. Thanks to the American Rescue Plan – which zero Republicans voted for – the Biden-Harris Administration has protected the pensions of over 65,000 Pennsylvanians, 80,000 Michiganders, 78,000 New Yorkers, 73,000 Illinoisans, 63,000 Ohioans, 63,000 Californians, 42,000 Floridians, 38,000 Missourians, 36,000 Texans, and many more to date. * Democracy Docket | Sheriffs Are Ready To Challenge Election Results: In March of 2024, at the Ahern Luxury Boutique Hotel in Las Vegas, “constitutional sheriffs” like Washington State’s Sheriff Bob Songer and Michigan’s Sheriff Dar Leaf took to a makeshift stage, stood next to the stars and stripes and proclaimed that they were ready to challenge the 2024 presidential election results, using force if necessary.
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Monday, Nov 4, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * You can click here to follow the Madigan trial. Click here and/or here to follow breaking news. It’s the best we can do unless or until Twitter gets its act together.
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