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Grayson’s ludicrous defense
Monday, Aug 5, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * SJ-R…
Ugh. * Here’s a video clip that covers the half minute before the shooting. Massey says what she says in an almost humorous manner. Even though I stop the video before the shooting, it’s still very difficult and traumatic to watch. There’s also profanity, so keep that in mind if you’re at work… When she says “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” Grayson says “You better f-ing not or I swear to God I’ll f-ing shoot you right in your f-ing face.” And then he pulled his gun, she apologized, went to the floor and he shot her right in the face. Evil.
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Isabel’s afternoon roundup
Monday, Aug 5, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * Press release…
* WTTW reporter Heather Cherone… * WTHI | New data shows change in how Illinois funds its schools is reaching under-resourced districts: The Illinois State Board of Education released new data on Monday showing the impact of a change in funding for the state’s “highest-need” schools. […] According to the ISBE, the number of districts with funding below 70 percent adequacy has hit its lowest point since switching funding formulas. In FY 2018, there were 430 districts below 70 percent adequacy; in FY 2025, it’s now 49 districts. * Center Square | Narcan vending machines popping up throughout Illinois in effort to combat overdoses: Chestnut Health Systems have been installing the vending machines in several areas, including in Metro East. Officials said in Madison and St. Clair counties alone, there were 96 overdoses last year with 70% involving opioids. The project is funded with tax dollars from the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Substance Use Prevention and Recovery. * Chalkbeat | Chicago touts after-school program growth but cuts funding: After pouring federal COVID relief dollars into a once barebones budget for such programs, Chicago Public Schools is now cutting funding for academic, arts, sports and mentoring before- and after-school programs, labeled as Out of School Time. This summer, the district touted a 2024-25 budget that “doubles down” on a COVID-era spending boost for extracurricular programs, which officials said has sped up students’ recovery. But in fact, funding for these programs is down by roughly a third, to about $31 million. * WTTW | CPD Has Yet to Launch Study on How Officers Are Deployed, Missing Deadline Set by Chicago City Council: Ald. Matt Martin (47th Ward), who authored the ordinance passed by the City Council on Feb. 21 that gave CPD officials 90 days to hire an outside organization to study how officers are deployed, where they are assigned to work and whether that makes sense, said he was frustrated the work had not yet begun. […] A spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department said Wednesday the contract to conduct the study has yet to be finalized. A CPD spokesperson told WTTW News June 4 that an agreement had been reached in May to set the scope of the study and efforts were underway to “finalize the contract.” * Sun-Times | Long-awaited Damen Green Line station opens: A new Green Line station opened Monday at Damen Avenue on the Near West Side, offering a rail connection to the United Center in time for the Democratic National Convention that kicks off in two weeks. Mayor Brandon Johnson helped cut the ribbon on what officials celebrated as a “visually compelling” station that closes a 1.5-mile gap on the Green Line, the only L line that serves both the South and West sides. * Block Club | Historical State Street Skyscrapers To Be Preserved After Feds Opt Against Demolition: Three historical State Street buildings previously set for demolition will likely now be preserved, according to a report by the federal agency that owns the buildings. The U.S. General Services Administration had previously sought to demolish the Century and Consumers buildings, 202-220 S. State St., in an effort to boost security at the adjacent Dirksen Federal Building on Dearborn Street. * Sun-Times | Are tornadoes surging in Chicago area? Not quite, but reporting of them is, experts say: Illinois surpassed 100 tornadoes in a year two other times this century, in 2003 and 2006. The state has averaged about 40 tornadoes a year since record keeping began in 1950. Some may want to blame climate change, but the recent rise has largely been rooted in better technology to track and categorize storms, says Walker Ashley, a meteorology professor at Northern Illinois University. * Block Club | Metropolis Coffee’s Second Cafe Takes Flight At O’Hare: The cafe opened in O’Hare’s newly expanded Terminal 5 this spring, and Metropolis is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the location Aug. 13. […] Metropolis operated a temporary cafe with a stripped-down menu at O’Hare for over a year. The permanent cafe, located by gate M30, has a full menu offering a range of coffees, pastries, samosas, sandwiches, salads, smoothies, juices, beers and wines, Farhana Rahim said. * Block Club | River Otters Were Once Nearly Extinct In Illinois — But Now They Roam Chicago Waterways: The Forest Preserve District of Cook County and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources have done extensive habitat restoration projects and reintroductions to help otters and other animals. […] These efforts have proven highly successful: River otters were removed from the state endangered species list in 2004. By 2009, Illinois had over 11,000 otters, and today they are found in every county in the state, according to the Outdoor Illinois Journal. * Daily Herald | Islamic school proposed for shuttered Elgin Academy: Elgin Academy, the private school which closed in June after 185 years, is being sold to an organization that intends to establish an Islamic school for preschool through 12th grade students, according to an Elgin Academy official and a YouTube video produced by organizers behind the proposed Burhan Academy. Paul Druzinsky, the interim head of the nonsectarian Elgin Academy, confirmed the asking price of the 350 Park St. property is $3.7 million and the sale is set to close later this month. * Daily Herald | Hunger Resource Network board member shares food insecurity challenges: “Eleven years ago, I went through a divorce while living in Highland Park,” [Amy Levin Schneider] said. “I will bet you are having a hard time believing that someone like me, with a good education, has experienced food insecurity, right? But the truth is, I have. Hunger has many faces.” Suddenly, Amy found herself a single mother trying to support two children. She and her ex-husband worked in the same business, but when the marriage ended, it was no longer an option for her to work there. * Naperville Sun | New North Central College president says his job is to bring stability as the Naperville school deals with priorities ahead: Abiódún Gòkè-Pariolá, who last month was tapped as the 12th president of North Central College, says a need for stability, prudency and leadership during a period of flux for the Naperville institution is the impetus behind his appointment. […] With Gòkè-Pariolá named president, his previous role as provost and vice president for academic affairs will be filled for the interim by Kristin Geraty, who had previously held the role of North Central’s associate provost and dean of engaged learning, the college announced Wednesday. Geraty is the first woman to serve as the college’s chief academic officer. * Patch | $14.7 Million Referendum Heads To Ballot In Glencoe Park District: The Glencoe Park District board last month voted unanimously to ask residents to authorize a 25-year, $14.7 million bond sale. Executive Director Lisa Sheppard said the board is looking to maintain the quality of its assets and enhance property values through the preservation of the village’s beach, parks and athletic facilities while limiting the burden on taxpayers. * The Telegraph | Groundbreaking transgender candidate runs for Granite City mayor: Colton Baumgartner is running for mayor of Granite City. Baumgartner is believed to be the first openly transgender person to run for mayor in Madison County. If elected, she would be the first openly transgender mayor in Illinois, according to Equality Illinois. “I believe it is in my benefit to help the city, because I’ve lived in many states, and I truly feel like I am an American and I chose Granite City to be my forever home,” she said. * KHQA | WIU community to hold press conference ahead of expected layoff vote: Faculty members, staff, and students will gather on Monday with community members for a press conference in advance of the expected board vote to lay off an undetermined number of Western Illinois University (WIU) employees. Officials say reducing the faculty and staff who instruct and support students will not only diminish the opportunities available to students but will also have dire consequences on the WIU community in Macomb and Moline. * PJ Star | Infamous killer who was part of Chicago’s ‘Ripper Crew’ is now living in Peoria: Thomas Kokoraleis, 64, informed the Peoria Police Department in May that he would be living in Peoria at the Peoria Pathway Ministries, formerly Peoria Rescue Ministries, at 601 Adams Street in Downtown Peoria. Kokoraleis is not on parole, which means he is not subject to 24-hour monitoring by an ankle monitor, but Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria told the Journal Star he is required to check in with the police department quarterly. […] “I can tell you that when he came here, I did speak with the previous agency that he came from and they never, in the time he was there, had any issues with him,” Echevarria said. * SJ-R | Petition claims school’s diversity officer was placed on leave after off-campus fight: More than 900 people want the University of Illinois Springfield to reinstate its now-former Director of Diversity and Inclusion. According to a document obtained by The State-Journal Register, the university placed Justin Rose on paid administrative leave May 6 because of a potential violation of the school’s code of conduct and has since been informed that his $78,392 annual contract set to expire Aug. 15 would not be renewed. The move came 10 days after a fight at an off-campus party where Rose was present. * SJ-R | Springfield area softball team repeats as Senior League World Series champions: Chatham Glenwood’s Taryn Griffith dished out a pair of RBI hits in the first two innings and the Tri-County Senior League softball team captured its second straight Senior League World Series title 11-0 over Irmo, South Carolina on Sunday. Griffith scored Pawnee’s Ava Rodriguez with an RBI-single in the first inning before expanding the lead 6-0 in the second with a 2-RBI double to left field. * NYT | Justice Thomas Failed to Reveal More Private Flights, Senator Says: Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow’s lawyer after records showed undisclosed flights between Hawaii and New Zealand with the Supreme Court justice in 2010. * AP | Prosecutors plan to charge former Kansas police chief over his conduct following newspaper raid: The raid sparked a national debate about press freedoms focused on Marion, a town of about of about 1,900 people set among rolling prairie hills about 150 miles (241 kilometers) southwest of Kansas City, Missouri. Cody resigned as chief in early October, weeks after officers were forced to return materials seized in the raid. Meyer’s 98-year-old mother Joan Meyer, who co-owned the paper and lived with him, died the day after the raid from a heart attack. Meyer attributed her death to the stress of the raid.
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Question of the day
Monday, Aug 5, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * I’ve asked before whether y’all thought Sen. Durbin will run for reelection or not. Today’s question is whether he should run for another six-year term or not. Make sure to explain your answer…
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UIC research could lead to major antibiotic breakthrough
Monday, Aug 5, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller
* This morning, a commenter pointed out a story from last month. Sun-Times…
* UIC Today…
The study is here.
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It’s a law
Monday, Aug 5, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * Lee Enterprises’ Brenden Moore…
Click here for the full list.
* WAND…
* Sen. Cristina Castro…
* Sen. Mary Edly-Allen…
* SJ-R statehouse reporter Patrick Keck…  SB3134 went into effect immediately. * Sen. Laura Fine…
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* Sen. Rachel Ventura…
* Sen. Bill Cunningham…
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A good lesson for our crazy times
Monday, Aug 5, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * My weekly syndicated newspaper column…
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Edgar, LaHood, Kinzinger and Walsh join ‘Republicans for Harris’
Monday, Aug 5, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * Sun-Times…
* Edgar has never supported Trump. LaHood was considered a moderate in DC, but his congressional voting record was likely too conservative for Illinois (and I told him as much years ago). Kinzinger has always been a conservative, and he stands on principle. For instance, from 2022…
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Walsh didn’t invent Republican victimhood and phony outrage, but he took it to a whole new level when he was in office and for quite a while after he was booted by Democrat Tammy Duckworth. * Anyway, AP…
Thoughts?
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Open thread
Monday, Aug 5, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * What’s going on in your part of Illinois?
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Isabel’s morning briefing
Monday, Aug 5, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * ICYMI: Citing fear of job loss, union pressures Trib to drop AI policy. Crain’s…
- The Chicago Tribune Guild, the union representing its newsroom, said Alden Global “proposed contract language that would give it unrestricted power to outsource newsroom work, including to artificial intelligence tools.” - The union has accused Alden Global of “slow-walking contract negotiations” and offering “non-starter proposals” that include the possibility of eliminating the company’s 401(k) match and refusing pay increases. The Guild won its union election in 2018 and has yet to reach a first contract. At 9 am Governor Pritzker will give remarks at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting. Click here to watch. * SJ-R | Illinois Democrats pumping ’seven figure investments’ into 2 key congressional races: Budzinski and Sorensen are seen as the most sensitive to a potential flip, especially Sorensen where the National Republican Congressional Committee is putting resources to his challenger Joe McGraw. Both, however, have still significant fundraising advantages over their opponents. […] In this election, Virden Republican Josh Loyd and Green Party candidate Chibu Asonye of Champaign are challenging Budzinski. Budzinski’s campaign, as of the latest campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission, holds more than $2 million in reserves compared to $2,883 for Loyd. There is no data available for Asonye and a challenge to her nomination papers filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections is still pending. * Illinois Answers | Luxury Home or Vacant Lot? Cook County Assessor Misclassifies Hundreds of Properties, Missing $444M in One Year Alone: The Gilmores’ house isn’t being unfairly targeted. It’s being treated normally and reassessed every three years like hundreds of thousands of properties across Cook County. Rather, the inequality is due to the assessor’s office missing new construction and major improvements to homes and businesses all across Cook County. In one year alone, Kaegi’s office has missed hundreds of millions of dollars in market value, which is a foundational figure used in taxing properties in Cook County. The missteps came even though in hundreds of cases Kaegi’s office possessed the documents or data it needed indicating the homes and businesses had been renovated or that the vacant land had been developed, the Tribune and Illinois Answers found. * CBS Chicago | In wake of Sonya Massey shooting, call issued for referendum on whether Illinois sheriff should resign: Sangamon County Board member Sam Cahnman (D-18th) said he will introduce a resolution to have a referendum added to the ballot in November—simply asking voters whether Sheriff Jack Campbell should resign. Campbell has defended his decision to hire Sean Grayson, the deputy who shot and killed Massey early on Saturday, July 6, at her house outside Springfield. He shot her when she checked on a pot of boiling water in her own kitchen while saying, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.” Grayson was fired from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s office and has been charged with Massey’s murder. Meanwhile, his past has raised new questions over the decision to hire him in the first place. * Tribune | Deaths from domestic gun violence rose in 2023 in Illinois, report says: Shootings related to domestic violence in Illinois were significantly more lethal in 2023 even as their overall number remained mostly stable from previous years, a new report from The Network: Advocating Against Domestic Violence found. The report projected that 130 people in Illinois would die due to domestic gun violence in 2024. The report, released weeks after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared gun violence a public health crisis, documented 109 shootings related to domestic violence, which killed 93 people in Illinois throughout 2023. * Tribune | Illinois trees and plants suffering widespread damage from renewed use of decades-old weedkillers on farms, studies show: At first glance it appears Hirsch’s property is an idyllic refuge on the edge of suburbia. But her training didn’t prepare her for an onslaught of weedkillers drifting from nearby farms and neighboring yards — a scourge spreading throughout Illinois as chemical companies revive volatile herbicides from generations past. Trees are slowly dying after being hit for years by weedkillers. Their once-robust canopy has thinned. Many of the leaves are cupped or deformed. So are the Hirsch family’s flowers and vegetables. * Tribune | Controversial staffing firm to remain in Chicago migrant shelters: ‘Right now, Favorite is our solution’: The out-of-state emergency staffing firm was first tapped by Mayor Lori Lightfoot in fall 2022 to run Chicago’s nascent migrant shelter system as busloads of Venezuelans began arriving in the city from Texas. That contract has remained the city’s costliest by far of the ongoing migrant situation, with almost two-thirds of the $433.7 million in total expenditures spent on asylum-seekers so far going toward Favorite Staffing, per city records from July. The Johnson administration has touted rate negotiations that have driven down per-resident costs and have saved up to $3 million a week even as an earlier spike in the shelter population this winter contributed to a whopping $276.6 million bill from Favorite Staffing since the start of the migrant crisis. * Block Club | Feds Pledge To Advance Nearly $400 Million More To Red Line Extension: Federal transit officials pledged $746 million next year to extend the Red Line south to 130th Street, up from $350 million. The total federal funding remains the same, but the move is expected to lower the city’s borrowing costs for the project. * WTTW | Watchdog: Chicago’s Workers’ Comp System Has Been Reformed, 5 Years After Ed Burke Control: The first-of-its-kind audit by Inspector General Deborah Witzburg of the city’s workers compensation system found “major improvement” in the system that paid $73.5 million to resolve approximately 3,700 claims in 2022. “As the program is ushered into a new era and the city works to clear a cloud of historical corruption, we welcome the opportunity to shine some light into that room,” Witzburg said. * Streetsblog | Amtrak’s convenient, timely Chicago-Twin Cities Borealis service saw strong ridership in its first month: According to preliminary figures released in early July, the Borealis saw around 18,500 passengers in June, or an average of 300 passengers a day in each direction. The May 2024 Amtrak monthly performance report showed that the service had 6,600 riders during its first 1.5 weeks of operation. The June 2024 report hadn’t been released by press time. * Block Club | Former Edgewater Ald. Mary Ann Smith, City Hall Staple For 2 Decades, Dies at 77: As 48th Ward alderwoman from 1989 to 2011, Smith prioritized creating park spaces, improving local schools, introducing traffic calming measures and preserving the ward’s historic blocks, her family, friends and colleagues said. Smith “radiated authenticity, sweetness, compassion,” and was always followed around by her dogs and cats, Matthew Smith said. * Tribune | A migrant family’s first year in Chicago: sadness, setbacks and ‘beautiful moments’: In 2023, the Tribune followed the Mendez family of five — Esperanza, her adult son, Fabian, his girlfriend, and Experanza’s two youngest children, Yuledy and Pedro — on a bus and train from El Paso, Texas, to Chicago last July. They had risked their lives to make it to the United States. A year later, they find themselves in deep isolation. […] “For months, my mind has been distracted. We’ve been in survival mode. It’s hard to keep up with everything,” said Esperanza in a recent interview. “All the while we’re worried about the people in our own country.” * Daily Herald | Why Aqua Illinois is building a second water treatment plant in Hawthorn Woods : Water system operator Aqua Illinois, which has had past issues involving customer outages, is building a second water treatment plant in Hawthorn Woods to ensure reliability of the system. […] “In systems like Hawthorn Woods, a significant leak, coupled with normal usage can strain the water supply beyond its capacity,” said Areca Van Mill, regional communication specialist. * Daily Herald | Despite lakefront focus, Bears president leaves the door open to Arlington Heights stadium ‘opportunity’: Warren’s latest comments — which came during the national TV broadcast of the Bears’ first preseason game Thursday night and in a local radio interview Tuesday — followed Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s declaration Monday that it would be “near impossible” for legislation providing public money for a new lakefront stadium to pass the legislature this fall. “The focus is the Museum Campus downtown. I still think that’s the most beautiful piece of property in the country, where lake meets architecture downtown,” Warren said during the ABC/ESPN broadcast of the Bears’ Hall of Fame Game Thursday night. “We are the largest landowner in Arlington Heights. We own 326 acres. So that still is an opportunity cause we do own the land. But our focus right now is to do everything we can on the lakefront.” * Daily Herald | ‘This is harming our students’: District looks to power down on cellphones in the classroom : The mantra at Evanston Township High School will be “bell to bell, no cell” as the school enacts a new policy requiring students to power down their phones and place them in a storage caddie at the beginning of each class. At Lake Zurich Community Unit District 95, middle and high school students also will turn in their phones at the beginning of each class. And Elk Grove Township Elementary District 59, junior high school students will be asked this year to store their cellphones in their lockers during the school day. * BND | East St. Louis nonprofit starts construction on $2 million workforce training center: R3 Development, started in 2015, has employed about 150 young adults through its program, which aims to connect underserved students of the area to good-paying jobs and build up the local economy. “For us, it’s about addressing generational poverty with generational solutions,” said Dave Kuntz, R3’s executive director. “It affects the entire family unit, family line. And this really bolsters the region, the city through jobs and economic development.” * SJ-R | Who’s performing, how much is admission?: Your 2024 Illinois State Fair questions answered: Free music performances are available each day during the Grand Central Stage Concert Series at the Reisch Pavillion. Among them, include country music singers Kylie Morgan and Drew Baldridge and tribute bands Taylor Made (Taylor Swift tribute) and Feeling This (Blink 182). * Pantagraph | ‘Love is love’ at annual Pridefest in downtown Bloomington: This year, Main Street from Washington to Monroe streets was closed off, as was the square around the McLean County Museum of History, for a fest featuring live performances, music, family-friendly activities, speeches from local politicians and a “Pride Idol” that Lancaster had been cultivating all year. * WCIA | Motorcyclists honor Sonya Massey with memorial ride: It was the 47th National Bikers Roundup — the largest camping motorcycle rally in the country. It’s held in a different place every year and is organized by African-American motorcycle clubs. “I’ve been to a few of these. I was here, I think about 11 years ago, if that long ago, when they had it here,” said Lee Bellmay of Indianapolis. “Except for this right here is a little different. You know, this it’s something else, you know; something added to it. Something we don’t want to have to be doing.” * Sun-Times | White Sox’ losing streak hits 20 after sweep by Twins: With the defeat, their 23rd in their last 24 games, the Sox are a three-game road sweep against the Athletics away from tying the 1961 Phillies’ modern-era record of 23 consecutive losses. … With the result Sunday, they joined the 1906 Boston Americans, the 1916 and 1943 A’s and the expansion 1969 Expos with the third-longest streaks in history. The 1988 Orioles have the second-longest at 21 in a row, which is the American League record.
* Pantagraph | : She and her Olympic partner, Sarah Bacon, became silver medalists in synchronized Olympic diving — the first medals won by the U.S. in Paris — and NBC had set up a Zoom feed in Normal, in the home of Kassidy’s sister, Kylie. “And speaking of family,” said NBC studio host Maria Taylor, at that moment, as she interviewed Kassidy and diving partner, Sarah Bacon (yes, Cook ‘n Bacon) … “Kassidy, here is your sister, Kylie, and the rest of the gang there in Normal, Illinois!” * Daily Herald | ‘I have truly lived the dream’: Dan Schatzeder went from major-league pitcher to suburban teacher and coach: Each Friday during his nearly 20 years as a physical education teacher and athletic coach at Aurora’s Waubonsie Valley High School, Dan Schatzeder would don an extraordinary piece of jewelry before heading to work. To passersby, the bauble on Schatzeder’s right ring finger might’ve looked like a class ring. But this was no mere memento of matriculation. No, this ring — with 15 diamonds set in a stylized, gold M against a blue background — was a far rarer keepsake, a prize awarded only to members of the 1987 World Series-winning Minnesota Twins baseball club. * Block Club | Chicagoan Shamier Little Smashes World Record On Mixed Relay Team At Paris Olympics: Shamier Little, a 2013 graduate of Lindblom Math and Science Academy, sprinted for Team USA’s 4×400-meter mixed relay team that smashed the event’s world record Friday at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games track and field prelims. The team — featuring Vernon Norwood, Little, Bryce Deadmon and Kaylyn Brown — finished the race in 3 minutes and 7.41 seconds, shaving more than a second off the previous record set at the World Championships in Budapest last year. * Tribune | Itasca’s Zach Ziemek sets an American record with his 3rd Olympic decathlon: ‘That’s what drove me the entire time’: After running a painful, rain-soaked 1,500 meters to finish the Olympic decathlon, Zach Ziemek sat down on the track and let the exhaustion envelop him. The Itasca native had partially torn his left LCL the previous day during the long jump, instantly dashing his hopes for a medal and making the remaining eight events increasingly difficult. The final four laps around the track — never his favorite event — were a test of determination, done almost solely to secure his place in the U.S. record books. * WBEZ | ‘Welcome home, Steve. You’re in football heaven.’: Misty talks to her husband, hand on his arm, and unveils the bust at his side. Dent, who played on the defensive line with McMichael and Hall of Famer Dan Hampton, says to his motionless teammate: ‘‘Welcome home, Steve. You’re in football heaven.’’ Misty has moved McMichael’s head so he can see the bust, and what he thinks of the epic, hair-flowing bronze sculpture is unknowable. But the likeness shows a young man in full glory, with a slight smile that can be read as great confidence or a cosmic chuckle, a laugh at the world of propriety, order and, yes, even awards.
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Live coverage
Monday, Aug 5, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * You can click here 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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Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * Talk to you Monday… You know I hate to say, but, I told you so
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Isabel’s afternoon roundup
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * WIRED…
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* SJ-R | Illinois House Speaker’s staff continues attempt to unionize: The Illinois Legislative Staff Association filed a response on July 31 to the speaker’s motion to dismiss their case, alleging Welch has failed to engage in collective bargaining. The association formed in 2022 after voters approved the Workers’ Rights Amendment that November — codifying a worker’s ability to organize and collectively bargain in the state constitution. * WSPY | Oswego State Rep. Kifowit expresses interest in new quantum computing program, highlights benefits to Illinois: Kifowit said the field of quantum computing is an idea that shows Illinois is thinking about the future and developing a sound strategy to show other sectors that Illinois is the place to be. […] Kifowit said she appreciates the effort made by her colleagues in the General Assembly and Governor Pritzker for moving this project along, and she hopes the campus will be the beginning of more quantum computing sites and other developments across the state. * Tribune | Chicago’s Shamier Little and the US mixed relay team sets a world record at the Olympics: The U.S. team – consisting of Vernon Norwood, Little, Bryce Deadmon and Kaylyn Brown – crossed the finish line in 3:07.41, beating the previous record by more than a second. The French team, second in the preliminary round, finished more than three seconds behind. “I always knew we were going to run fast,” Little said. “We talked about, you know, it’s going to take a record to win a medal, but it took a record to win our prelim.” * WCIA | Deanna Price to compete in third Olympic Games: Illinois Assistant Coach Deanna Price has had quite the journey to qualify for the Olympics, in a sport many may be unfamiliar with. “It’s an 8.8-pound ball so, if you ever go in your kitchen, pick up like a cast iron skillet,” Price said. “I can generate up to 70 miles per hour and I could throw it almost the length of a football field and you have to throw it between two cage doors, and do it within a seven-foot diameter ring.” * Tribune | How a father-daughter bike ride turned Lake Villa’s Felicia Stancil into a 2-time Olympian: After a young Felicia Stancil’s mother died in a car accident, her father began looking for things they could do together. Activities that would help them both heal, he thought. Activities that would bring them both joy. When she was only 4, he took her on a short bike ride through their Lake County neighborhood, watching carefully as she pedaled her way around with the help of training wheels. As soon as they arrived home, however, Felicia had a demand. “I wasn’t going in the house until he took off my training wheels,” she recalled to the Tribune. “I just stood there and wouldn’t let him go inside. So he went into the garage and took them off.” * WGN | Feds say they’ve foiled plot to kill witnesses in Chicago homicide trial: Federal prosecutors say they have foiled a plot to kill two witnesses in an upcoming homicide trial. Christopher Yates is accused of providing a gun and a $250 down payment to another man last month in an effort to silence witnesses set to testify against the alleged shooter in a September 2020 attack that killed a woman and injured a man. * Block Club | Do You Know The Woman Posing With Obama In This Photo? Chicagoans Are Trying To Find Her: Earlier this week, Reddit user 99ell posted online about wanting to find a woman whose photo they’d snapped with Obama — then a senator, but soon to be president — in 2006. The poster was unable to get the photo to the woman at the time and wants to find her so they can share the photo with her now, they wrote. “I also have a similar pic of myself with Barack that I’ve cherished, so I feel bad that I never got this pic I took of this woman,” 99ell wrote. The poster could not immediately be reached for comment. * Block Club | Chappell Roan Recruited Some Of The Strongest People In Chicago To Lift Weights During Her Lolla Set: Lawrence Scott received a call from a producer with Lollapalooza looking for something “unique” three weeks ago. The producer said there was an artist at Lolla who wanted to recruit people from Scott’s gym, Rockwell Barbell at 2861 N. Clybourn Ave. Scott was shocked. “The only thing that I remember him saying was that the artist is essentially looking for people like [us] that are weightlifters …, that are unique looking, that are … jacked,” Scott said.
* Sun-Times | Bathtub is at the center of this suburban Chicago corruption investigation: In Westchester, Scott Russell, the west suburb’s former public works director, has been charged with using village resources to buy and install a bathtub in a supervisor’s house. Records show investigators are now looking at others in connection with “the bidding and awarding of contracts” for a now-dropped Village Hall complex. * Daily Herald | After years of planning, removal work to begin on Carpentersville Dam on Fox River: After nearly a decade of planning, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources has approved a contract to remove Carpentersville Dam in the Fox River Shores Forest Preserve. Officials announced in a news release that work to remove the dam could begin by the end of the month. […] The dam’s removal will begin healing the Fox River and restoring the natural riverine resource, [Forest Preserve Executive Director Benjamin Haberthur] said in the release. * Daily Southtown | A star at Homewood-Flossmoor, Jacob Schroeder goes to NIU. ‘I was comfortable.’ Then, at 23, he plays for Illinois.: “But it was worth it. To end up at Illinois where my family could come to every home game and to play for a program that competes for championships, it worked out so well for me.” Schroeder, who has graduated from Illinois, still has one season of eligibility remaining and plans to use it while starting grad school next year. The decision to stick around for another season in Champaign was certainly aided by his breakthrough performance this spring, which also increased his hopes for a future in the pros. * WCIA | Champaign County Fair to become more inclusive : The Champaign County Fairgrounds board will be holding a meeting next month to hear about the needs of people with disabilities. County fair organizers said it could include a sensory-friendly area or a place of respite from the sights and sounds of the fair, but they’re still working out details with the community. * WSIL | 170-Year-Old Historic Covered Bridge in Southern Illinois to be Repaired After Storm Damage in 2023: Mary’s River Covered Bridge will see construction starting in late fall to help restore the famous bridge, according to Dawn Johnson with the Illinois Department of Transportation. A local contractor was recently awarded $311,702 by IDOT to help repair it, Johnson said. * WCIA | Springfield firefighters celebrate ribbon cutting of new station: Springfield firefighters celebrated a historic moment Thursday for the ribbon cutting of Station 13. The new station — located on Spaulding Orchard Rd. — will be open for business starting Monday. * NY Mag | Everybody Is Mad at Bloomberg News for Its Embargo-Breaking Gershkovich-Is-Free Scoop: According to multiple sources at the Journal and other major outlets, the Bloomberg scoop left journalists and government officials fuming. With a prisoner swap, you don’t know if it’s going to happen until it happens. (As one Journal reporter put it: “We literally had Yaroslav Trofimov on the ground with binoculars waiting to see Evan come off the plane, and we pubbed as soon as that happened.”) Which means that Bloomberg’s story proclaiming Gershkovich was free was inaccurate, given that the Russian plane was still in the air at the time of publication. That plane could have just turned around and gone back to Moscow, which is why the Journal and other publications had agreed to hold off. * Bloomberg | Nasdaq 100 is in correction territory with AI darlings sinking: The index was down 2.2 per cent in midday trading on Friday, taking its loss since hitting a record on July 10 past 10 per cent. If that holds through end of the session, it will meet the definition of correction. The index remains up nearly 10 per cent for the year. Several megacaps have seen concentrated selling, with both Nvidia Corp. and Tesla Inc. down more than 20 per cent from recent highs, putting them in bear-market territory. Meanwhile Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. have each lost more than 10 per cent. However, with the exception of Tesla, all remain higher for the year. * NYT | Harris Has Votes Needed to Be Nominee, D.N.C. Says: The party chair said she had won enough delegates to secure the nomination, setting up Kamala Harris to become the first Black woman and person of South Asian heritage to earn the top spot on a major political ticket for president. * WaPo | Dry lightning, heat and wind could escalate fire activity in the West: California and the other western states face a combination of thunderstorms, heat and wind that threatens to further escalate an already high level of wildfire activity. Beginning Friday and into early next week, conditions could spark new blazes or intensify existing fires. And there isn’t much relief on the horizon, with widespread high fire risk forecast for much of the West this month and September. * Texas Monthly | How a Mariachi Ballad Became a Soothing Touchstone for Texans Grieving After Gun Violence: Violins led the way, though their warm tones were quickly echoed by the brassy hum from a set of trumpets, the steady plunk of guitarróns, and crisp guitar strums. It was June 2022, and an audience of mourners had gathered in Uvalde’s town square. Medrano, a longtime violinist, had traveled there from San Antonio with nearly fifty fellow mariachis who had answered the call to console the shattered community with music after the shooting at Robb Elementary that ended the lives of nineteen students and two teachers. “Amor Eterno,” a heartbreaking ballad and perhaps the most famous song by Mexican icon Juan Gabriel, would undoubtedly be on their short set list. The song was becoming a common tribute alongside memorials of white crosses and masses of flowers that appear when this kind of tragedy visits predominantly Latino communities.
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Stop Credit Card Chaos In Illinois!
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] In less than one year, a new law will create credit card chaos for millions of Illinois consumers, small business owners and workers who rely on tips. The law changes how your credit card is processed and has never been done anywhere in the world. The end result is windfall for corporate mega-stores paid for through costly operational hurdles for small businesses and a loss of convenience and privacy for consumers who could have to pay tax and gratuity with cash. There’s still time to protect Illinois small business owners, consumers and workers by repealing the Interchange Fee Prohibition Act now! For more information, visit guardyourcard.com/Illinois.
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Scammy campaign texts on the rise (Updated)
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * Sun-Times…
Knock wood, I haven’t received any scam campaign texts, but I do get a lot of candidate fundraising texts. You? …Adding… Yikes…
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Question of the day
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * Sun-Times…
* The Question: Should Illinois ban these types of contributions or just leave it the way it is? Explain.
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Uber Partners With Cities To Expand Urban Transportation
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] Uber is leading the charge to close critical transportation gaps, ensuring reliable access to its services in places that need it most, such as underserved areas like Englewood. This is a part of Uber’s broader commitment to augment and expand the reach of Chicago’s transportation ecosystem, focusing on overcoming the first-mile/ last-mile hurdles that have long plagued residents in farther afield neighborhoods. Uber aims to extend the public transit network’s reach, making urban transportation more accessible and efficient for everyone. Discover the full story on how Uber is transforming city transportation for the better.
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Protected: SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Update to today’s edition
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller
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Olympic athletes with Illinois ties
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller
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Juda, who also finished strong on the pommel horse Monday, will now compete in the individual competition, starting Wednesday. * Tribune…
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* This play was just incredible…
* Yeboah is the first Ghanaian woman high jumper to compete at the Olympics…
* More… * River Bender | Watch Party Planned to Support Local Olympian Jayden Ulrich: At 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, community members are invited to The Pump House to watch Ulrich’s Olympic event. Ulrich, a 2021 East Alton-Wood River High School graduate, will throw discus for Team U.S.A. in the Paris Olympics on Friday. * KKTV | Greco-Roman Wrestler Kamal Bey is ready for his first Olympic Appearance: Kamal Bey grew up in Illinois, and by the age of three, he was introduced to the sport that would eventually, take him all the way. ”I learned how to throw before i learned how to shoot,” said Bey. As just a toddler, Greco-Roman was the first style of wrestling he ever learned. * NBC | Drawn to wrestling as a child, Kennedy Blades has been dreaming of Olympic gold since she was 8 years old: The night before the trials, Blades said she wrote in a notebook given to her by a trainer, “I’m an Olympic champion,” over and over. “I couldn’t stop. I closed my book, and the next day I did it again and again and again,” Blades said. “I think I’ve kind of manipulated my head into thinking, ‘You’re the champion. Let’s get what’s yours.’” * WBEZ | Athletes with Chicago-area ties competing at Paris Summer Olympic Games: Born in Evanston and a basketball star at Downers Grove South, [Tori Franklin] is making her second trip to the Olympics as a triple jumper. Originally from Spring Grove, [Ali Frantti] is an outside hitter who will be an alternate for the women’s team. A former Penn State star. * NBC Chicago | Olympian Evita Griskenas asked to do gymnastics at age 4- just not the kind her mother signed her up for: When she was 4 years old, Evita Griskenas saw rhythmic gymnastics on TV for the first time. After persistently asking to try it herself, her mother finally agreed and took her to a gymnastics gym - there was just one problem. It wasn’t a rhythmic gymnastics gym. Griskenas immediately knew it was the wrong type of gymnastics and refused to do anything- leaving her mother with no choice but to put her in a different class. * Sun-Times | From Wheaton to Loyola to the Paris Olympics, volleyball stars Thomas Jaeschke and Jeff Jendryk keep rising: Once upon a time, Thomas Jaeschke and Jeff Jendryk were needles in the same haystack. Both grew up in Wheaton, Jaeschke two years older. Both discovered volleyball in high school — Jaeschke at Wheaton Warrenville South and Jendryk at St. Francis — took to the sport exceptionally well and joined the same, Aurora-based club, called Sports Performance. And as it turned out, both went on to star in college at Loyola, where Jaeschke, now 30, and Jendryk, 28, got to know each other and, if you can believe it, actually won a Division I national championship together. * KWQC | Raising an Olympian: Former Rock Island track star Courtney Lindsey’s mom shares his journey: Former Rock Island track star Courtney Lindsey will be competing at the Olympics in Paris and his mom has been right by his side. Lindsey’s mom, Larondia Vesey says his love for running didn’t come at a young age, but once he discovered it, the rest was history. Lindsey actually grew up boxing because his step-father owns a boxing gym in Rock Island. * Tribune | ‘It still doesn’t feel real.’ Chicago wrestler Joe Rau’s improbable journey leads him to the Olympics — at age 33: It was a rash decision, spurred by controversial refereeing and a heartbreaking defeat that kept Rau off the U.S. Olympic team once again. At that moment — and for many months after — the idea of wrestling again sickened the Elmhurst College graduate. “I get a pit in my stomach like I’m going to throw up if I just think about wrestling,” the Union Ridge native told the Tribune a few weeks after the loss. “It’s devastating because wrestling has been the thing I’ve loved most since I was a kid. It’s what I do. It’s what I know.” Have you been watching?
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Veepstakes! (Updated)
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * Politico…
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Thoughts? …Adding… NBC Senior National Politics reporter Natasha Korecki…
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Open thread
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * What’s going on?…
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Isabel’s morning briefing
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * Subscribers know more. ICYMI: Sangamon Co. Sheriff speaks to WCIA on former deputy who killed Sonya Massey, resignation calls…
- Despite receiving a strong recommendation from his fiancé’s father, retired Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Butterfield, Campbell also said nepotism did not play a role in Grayson’s hiring. -Campbell is vowing to change his hiring practices to prevent future tragedies. He refused to give specifics, but he did say his department may start requesting documents through FOIA for their officer records. * Related stories… ∙ WCIA: Deputy who killed Massey didn’t have hiring ‘edge’ after recommendation from fiancé’s father: Sheriff Campbell ∙ Illinois Times: Sheriff defends hiring process * July University of Illinois System Flash Index fell slightly for the third month in a row : The unemployment rates for Illinois and the nation crept upward by one-tenth of a percentage point, five percent for Illinois and 4.1 percent nationally. Illinois’ rate is now seven-tenths of a percentage point over the rate a year ago. Continuing last month’s trend, individual income tax receipts were up in inflation-adjusted terms compared to the same month a year ago. At the same time, sales and corporate tax revenues were down from July last year. * Block Club | Maternity Care Deserts On South And West Sides See Higher Infant, Maternal Death Rates: The study found the range of full maternal care is distributed unequally across the city, with the South and West sides containing the most low-access ZIP codes. Downtown and the North Side had the most full-access ZIP codes. Three conveniently located clinics on the South and West sides have closed in the past six years, and the dearth of specialists in certain ZIP codes requires expectant parents to seek care outside of their communities. * Capitol News Illinois | Preparations for November election underway, with security a top priority: A new state law is changing the kind of identification badge that election judges and poll workers wear in Illinois in an effort to protect their safety. Starting this year, the badges will no longer display the person’s name, ward, precinct, or township. Instead, they will wear badges with a unique identification number that say they’re authorized by their local court. That was one of several changes made in an omnibus elections bill, House Bill 4488, Pritzker signed into law last month. * Tribune | Illinois’ federal rental assistance dollars have run out. As the state prepares its new program, tenants and landlords are left with less support.: But the program, which doled out nearly $82 million in federal funds between its inception and July 21, stopped accepting new applications on May 31. A new state program is in the works, with $75 million in state funding having been allocated to the effort for fiscal year 2025, which began on July 1. But state housing authority representatives say they won’t be able to get the new program off the ground until after Labor Day, leaving more tenants at risk of becoming homeless and more landlords at risk of not getting paid this summer. * Crain’s | DraftKings to implement a customer surcharge in high-tax states like Illinois: DraftKings Inc., a leader in the online sports-betting business, reported second-quarter profit that missed Wall Street estimates and said it plans to implement surcharges for customers in high-tax states. Revenue rose to $1.1 billion, the company said Thursday, in line with analysts’ estimates. The company reported adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $128 million, compared with estimates of $133.2 million. * River Cities Reader | Illinois AFL-CIO Wraps Up 46th Constitutional with an Eye on November Election: The Illinois AFL-CIO wrapped up its 46th Constitutional Convention at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare in Rosemont. Four-hundred delegates asserted their trust in the leadership of IL AFL-CIO President Tim Drea and Secretary-Treasurer Pat Devaney by voting to re-elect President Drea, Secretary-Treasurer Devaney, and the Executive Board to a four-year term. * Sun-Times | Racing the clock, Johnson speeds up spending of federal pandemic funds: Mayor Brandon Johnson has been racing to beat a Dec. 31 deadline to allocate $1.88 billion in pandemic relief funds — and spend it all by 2026 — to avoid losing the federal money. The race is paying off — but in a way that two influential City Council members fear could create a culture of dependency that beleaguered Chicago taxpayers can’t afford to sustain. * Tribune | Plans for outside police officers to assist Chicago cops at DNC still fluid as convention month arrives: CPD, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Tribune, said this week that the final roster of “mutual aid officers” has not yet been set. In an emailed statement, CPD director of news affairs Don Terry said the majority of additional officers will be from Illinois. * WBEZ | Will this year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago be a repeat of 1968?: Now, as Chicago gets ready to host another Democratic National Convention, many people are wondering whether the chaos of 1968 will repeat in 2024. We spoke with historians, protesters who were there during ’68 and other experts to analyze similarities and differences between this year’s DNC in Chicago and that of 1968. * Sun-Times | Botched Little Village smokestack implosion wasn’t my fault, Chicago city official says of dust storm fiasco: Finally meeting with community residents more than four years later, Buildings Commissioner Marlene Hopkins faulted a contractor and city health officials for not planning for and containing the dust after developer Hilco demolished the old Crawford coal-burning power plant. * Block Club | Will CHA Finally Build Long-Promised Housing? Agency Moves To End Landmark Housing Lawsuit: The Chicago Housing Authority and public housing residents and advocates amended a 2019 agreement in a federal lawsuit this week, citing progress the housing agency has made in building housing and strengthening its voucher program while targeting work that still needs to be done. Advocates at Impact for Equity and lawyers for the Housing Authority submitted an amended agreement to their 2019 settlement of the federal civil rights suit, Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority, earlier this week. It is slated to go into effect Thursday. * Sun-Times | Chappell Roan is our favorite artist’s favorite artist — and Chicago’s: Lollapalooza review: Thursday afternoon, fans could be seen stretching from the fencing on the east side all the way west to Columbus Drive and as far north as the IHG Hotels & Resorts Stage where eager Kesha fans comingled, happily singing along to Roan’s hits. People were trying to climb trees, kids were crying at not getting a view, the ADA platform had to figure out a way for overfill, and at least five people passed out near me as the incredible medics were as choreographed as the performers on stage. * Sun-Times | Black women struggle to find Black sperm donors: Though Black men make up 13% of the U.S. male population, they account for under 3% of sperm-bank donors, according to a study this year in the journal Fertility and Sterility, published by the American Society of Reproductive Health. White men, who make up 55% of the male population, account for 61% of sperm donors — a disparity that affects not only Black women like Brady but also same-sex couples and heterosexual couples with fertility issues. * Naperville Sun | City of Naperville files motion to dismiss civil suit requesting $20 million in compensatory damages after 2019 AirPods incident: In May, Amara Harris filed a civil suit against the city and Naperville police officers Juan Leon and Jonathan Pope asserting that their pursuit of the theft charge caused her emotional and financial injury. The dismissal motion was the city’s response to the case, filed Wednesday by its attorneys Michael Berasani and G. David Mathues of the Itasca-based Hervas, Condon & Bersani law firm. * Patch | Late Larry Walsh Sr. Will Have Joliet Building Dedicated In His Honor: On Saturday, Will County area politicians and representatives from Pace will meet in downtown Joliet to host a dedication to honor the late Larry Walsh Sr. […] The former Illinois State Senator and Will County Executive was an advocate for Pace and was integral in securing authorization for buses to utilize the shoulder of Interstate 55. * Daily Herald | District 25 ready to welcome first full-day kindergarten students this month: The school additions for full-day kindergarten cost the district $44.6 million, while the first three years of districtwide capital projects cost $25.6 million. Another $8.2 million of capital projects are planned in the summers of 2025 and 2026, according to Stacey Mallek, the district’s assistant superintendent for business. In total, the $78 million building project is being funded by $75 million in bond proceeds authorized by voters, about $3 million in interest earned on the bonds, a $100,000 Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity grant, and a $50,000 school maintenance grant. * Aurora Beacon-News | Aurora City Council approves $4.1 million contract as part of RiverEdge Park renovation: The $4.1 million contract with R.C. Wegman of Aurora is the first of several for an estimated $16 million project that will include a new backstage, a new entry on the southern edge of the park, a new beverage pavilion, a new VIP section and new restrooms. Eventually, the renovations are expected to increase the capacity of the park by about 2,500 people. Current capacity is about 7,300 for events and 6,500 for concerts. * Evanston | Mayor Biss stays grounded by climbing: Biss thought when he first started climbing that the space might be “bro-y,” as many gyms can be. “That’s not me,” he said. “But it isn’t that kind of macho culture.” He describes the acceptance he sees of different racial and gender identities, sexual orientations and especially recently, body types, at the First Ascent network of gyms. * Daily Herald | Suburban teams prepping for first season of IHSA flag football: Girls flag football got started in Illinois thanks in large part to the Chicago Bears, who provided gear for the 22 teams who played in the inaugural 2021 season. This season, teams will play between 22 and 25 games. Two games will be played on Saturday and each team will play one game during the week. * WCIA | Corn production could be causing cancer in Illinois, new study says: Living in an agricultural area like Central Illinois could be making people sick. An associate professor, along with others, conducted a study where he found being exposed to corn production chemicals can cause cancer. Illinois is the highest among the 50 states for these cancer-causing chemicals. Through the study, they’ve looked at more than 50 pesticides. * PJ Star | Major Peoria road scheduled for $9.6 million overhaul with more lanes, sidewalks, lighting: The project, which has received $500,000 from the federal government via congressman Darin LaHood, is entering the engineering and design phase, which will determine the final changes. At a minimum, Radnor Road will likely move from a rural cross section road to an urban cross section road, outfitted with three lanes, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, and street lighting, according to Peoria County Administrator Scott Sorrel. * AP | Sha’Carri breezes through opening round at first-ever Olympics race, wins 100 heat in 10.94 seconds: Sha’Carri Richardson blazed through a no-fuss opening round in the 100 meters Friday, winning her first-ever race at the Olympics in 10.94 seconds to easily qualify for the semifinals. Wearing neon green shoes, which contrasted well against the bright purple track, the American captured the first of eight first-round races on the opening day of track action at a jam-packed Stade de France.
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Protected: SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller
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Protected: SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today’s edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password)
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller
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Live coverage
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller * You can click here 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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Selected press releases (Live updates)
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