Afternoon roundup
Thursday, Jun 1, 2023 - Posted by Rich Miller * Lee Enterprises took a look at the racial spread between police departments/sheriffs’ offices and the communities they serve. The narrowest gap was in Rock Island County, which is 30.4 percent people of color and the sheriff’s office is 27.69 percent people of color. The widest gap was in Macon County, where the population is 25.2 percent people of color and yet the sheriff’s office is 100 percent White. Illinois as a whole is 40 percent persons of color and the Illinois State Police is 19.43 percent persons of color. Anyway, click here to see if your community is on the list. * Illinois Gaming Machine Operators Association…
The order is here. * This is not CNN’s Sanjay Gupta…
* But, didn’t Rep. Chris Miller tell us that this climate change thing doesn’t exist?…
*Blows into the microphone* * Press release…
…Adding… Not a good sign when the appellate court calls your appeal frivolous…
…Adding… U of I…
* Isabel’s roundup… * Center Square | Pritzker: Invest in Kids program may be renewed this year, but with changes: “I think we should have tax credits that support education and other things in state government, but we also have the federal government willing to cover about 40% of the cost,” Pritzker said at an unrelated event in Champaign Wednesday. “Why have we created a program in which we’re paying for 75% of it and not having the rest of the country essentially paying 40%?” * Crain’s | Rivian may lose Nasdaq spot after 90% selloff, JPMorgan says: The index typically removes the smallest members of the Nasdaq 100 if the company is weighted at less than 0.1% of the gauge for two consecutive months, JPMorgan analyst Min Moon writes in a note on Thursday. As Rivian was below 0.1% as of April 28 and May 31, Moon expects the carmaker to be excluded from the index on the third Friday of June. * Tribune | ‘Class of COVID’: For this year’s graduating seniors, the pandemic dominated and defined high school: “I firmly believe that students are not able to perform academically if they don’t have the social-emotional supports that they need,” she said. “They are going to have a tough time focusing on school work if they’re experiencing depression or anxiety, if they’ve got social issues happening.” * Sun-Times | Chicago Police Department’s reform chief resigns, claims ‘retaliation’: Tina Skahill’s exit comes just months after the ouster of her predecessor Robert Boik, who was fired after criticizing former Police Supt. David Brown’s decision to reassign nearly 50 officers under his command. * Sun-Times | ‘I’ll get you,’ brother of Goonie Boss gang leader allegedly warns witness at trial: Romeo “O-Dog” Blackman is on trial along with two other members of the South Side gang tied to an indictment that connected them to 10 slayings across 30 months from 2014 to 2016. The witness, a former Goonie Boss gang member who agreed to cooperate with the feds, testified in court Tuesday that Romeo Blackman had confessed to the January 2014 slaying of a person whom the brothers suspected of being a police informant. * WBEZ | ‘State of Black Chicago’ highlights outcome disparities between Black and white Chicagoans: A new report by the Chicago Urban League highlights significant disparities in the educational, economic and health outcomes between Black and white residents in the city. The 2023 “State of Black Chicago” report predicts local businesses will close, public schools in Black neighborhoods will continue to underperform and Black residents will be pushed out of their neighborhoods if inequity isn’t addressed. * Illinois Times | City of Springfield cited for refusal to cover gender-affirming care: After being denied health coverage for hormone treatments to support her identity as a transgender woman, a former Lincoln Library manager says she is happy to work for a Chicago-area library where her employer’s plan pays for gender-affirming care. * ABC Chicago | Evanston meeting to give update on reparations program Thursday: The city is now allowing cash payouts and a real estate transfer tax is added to its revenue stream after the tax from cannabis sales were not enough. * Illinois Newsroom | Decatur Public Schools temporarily closes 2 campuses over structural concerns: DPS spokesperson Denise Swarthout said a structural engineer visited the campuses Tuesday and voiced concerns. The district is having another engineer look at the buildings by the end of the week and will update staff then. The two Dennis Lab Schools are Decatur’s oldest and most historic school buildings, dating back to 1910 and 1914. * Press Release | Gov. Pritzker Announces New Manufacturing Facility in Southern Illinois: Governor JB Pritzker, Manner Polymers, and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today joined local leaders and partners to announce Manner Polymers’ new manufacturing facility in Mount Vernon. Known as an industry manufacturing leader in polymer compounds, Manner Polymers’ new state-of-the-art Illinois facility will manufacture a wide array of PVC compounds, including automotive PVC compounds for use in electric vehicles (EVs) and components for solar panels. * Willie Wilson | Unions can help reduce violence in Chicago with apprenticeships and jobs: Unions profess a devotion to racial equity, yet it is clear the rung on the ladder to the middle class remains elusive for African Americans and women in the building and construction trades. Chicago’s labor movement dates to 1864, and labor’s influence now dominates the Illinois political landscape. Mayor Brandon Johnson, a former union organizer, could use his influence to get trade unions to open up apprenticeship opportunities for those mired in poverty and hopelessness. * WCIA | Drought declared across Central Illinois: After a few weeks of abnormally dry conditions growing in the region, the declaration comes as rainfall totals have been in some areas less than 1/2 of normal for the month of April and May. * ABC Chicago | See the Chicago NASCAR street race course, plus street closures and parking restrictions: The Cup Series Race, named the “Grant Park 220,” and the Xfinity Series Race, called “The Loop 121,” will pass through many of Chicago’s most renowned downtown landmarks, July 1 through 2. * WGN | Prison time for boater who ran illegal charter operations on Chicago waterways: Christopher Mike Garbowski admitted to using a 40-foot powerboat known as “Sea Hawk” and “Anchorman” from 2017 to 2019 for personal profit, as he charged money to charter the boat to groups of passengers. […] The Coast Guard notified Garbowski about the federal regulations on multiple occasions. In one instance, prosecutors alleged that Garbowski called a potential customer by phone and asked that she lie to Coast Guard personnel by pretending they were friends with him.
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Todd Maisch
Thursday, Jun 1, 2023 - Posted by Rich Miller * Todd Maisch started working for the Illinois Chamber back in 1994, eventually rising up the ranks to take over as President/CEO in 2014. I’ve known him and his wife Kim for what seems like forever. My heart goes out to his family. He was just 57 years old. From the ILGOP…
This post will be updated. …Adding… House Republican Leader Tony McCombie…
* Comptroller Susana Mendoza…
* Senate President Don Harmon…
* House Speaker Chris Welch…
* Illinois AFL-CIO President Tim Drea and Secretary-Treasurer Pat Devaney…
* Sen. Linda Holmes (D-Aurora)…
* Senate Republican Leader John Curran…
* Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association…
* Illinois Manufacturers’ Association…
* Gov. JB Pritzker…
* Attorney General Kwame Raoul…
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