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Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 3:05 am
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What will Congressman LaHood do at the Electoral College hearing tomorrow, recognize President-elect Biden like he stated in his recent letter to the editor, or flip-flop and dive back in to the conspiracy?
Comment by Mr. D Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 7:32 am
The WIU marching band rendition is trending today for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Uy8Ec5Z7I
Comment by PublicServant Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 7:46 am
==The WIU marching band rendition is trending today for some reason.==
Could it be because WIU has a new President? Dr. Guiyou Huang (who was previously President at Pennsylvania’s Edinboro University).
Comment by Chatham Resident Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 8:10 am
Will Don Harmon call HB2275 for a vote? Chicago Teachers Union hoping so.
Comment by Don Harmon's Folly Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 8:16 am
And I thought the Cubs would name Oswego Willy as their play-by-play announcer. Maybe next time Willy.
Comment by pool boy Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 8:21 am
It could be Georgia….
Comment by Not a Billionaire Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 8:40 am
- pool boy -
I did get a nice form letter, via snail-mail, spelled my name “Willie” but it did include a nice Cubs key chain and 3 “Cub Dollars” that can be spent at the ball park.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 8:45 am
Any move on the DST bill?
If there is one thing that can make a pandemic more depressing it’s being dark at 4:30 p.m.
Comment by Flyin' Elvis'-Utah Chapter Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 8:50 am
I think it’d be fun to try to explain to Abe Lincoln that one day the future of our Republic would hinge on two Georgia run off elections.
Comment by Candy Dogood Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:00 am
=== I think it’d be fun to try to explain to Abe Lincoln that one day the future of our Republic would hinge on two Georgia run off elections.===
… and the *Republicans* are the ones of worry.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:02 am
When you think about Lincoln losing to Douglas, and then finding his way to the White House, saving the Union, makes ya think about elections a bit differently, and who knows, with a remap coming, who will come on the scene, win or lose, that can change Illinois for a long time.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:05 am
==Any move on the DST bill?
If there is one thing that can make a pandemic more depressing it’s being dark at 4:30 p.m.==
Only to exchange the later sunset for still being nighttime at 7AM when many state employees still having to report daily to the office (me included) leave for work (and for some without a garage, have to scrape the frost, snow, and ice off the car in the winter).
Comment by Chatham Resident Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:05 am
“Poor” Jim Oberweis. So close, yet so far. The comparison between Trump and Oberweis is not surprising. Elderly, wealthy white men who had most of their wealth inherited (granted J.O. did take what he inherited and built upon it). They both can’t face the reality that they lost and are looking beyond hail Marys to grant them what they believe are birth rites.
Comment by Colin O'Scopy Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:07 am
Kathy Willis becomes Speaker, thats some pretty heavy clout for west Cook suburbs. Harmon and Willis running the GA chambers. The next Pate and Lee.
Comment by Frank talks Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:14 am
Oberweis is tailor-made to run and win in Florida. I never understood why Oberweis didn’t pull up stakes and move to Florida, and still run the dairy and investment portfolios from Florida.
Oberweis was always, even if he didn’t believe it, a square peg in Illinois’ round hole and his unneeded forcing himself upon the state and the GOP has done real damage to the party and thoughts to party.
Between SSM, his racial underpinnings, the purity tests, the anger towards and fights with moderates, Oberweis was a catalyst in creating the eastern bloc thinkers.
The Illinois senate is a better place with him not in the body.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:17 am
Illinois’ adult-use cannabis market is very promising, after a great first year of sales and a record month in December. Rolling out dispensary licenses in accordance with social equity requirements has to be done properly and soon, so we can get going with the next phases.
Comment by Grandson of Man Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:18 am
IDES called me back about the fraudulent unemployment claim that someone made with my information. Total wait time was 8 days, that isnt bad. It’s not the two business days they claimed it would be but hey, I spoke to a live person and it seems everything is straightened out. Now to fix the system so this doesnt keep happening…
Comment by Maximus Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:21 am
==- Maximus - Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:21 am:==
Protect your identity.
Comment by Precinct Captain Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:27 am
Precinct Captain,
I did a credit check and everything looked right and I filed a police report. I suppose I could pay one of those services like LifeLock to really be safe?
Comment by Maximus Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:29 am
Judge Erica Reddick has been named acting presiding judge of the Criminal Division and, IMHO, the people of Cook County should be very pleased.
– MrJM
Comment by @misterjayem Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:37 am
Oberweis want the US Congress to disenfranchise voters of the 14th district.
This is what we have become. The world oldest continuous democracy.
Comment by Da Big Bad Wolf Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:42 am
OW at 9:17–Agree with every single word. Mrs. Oberweis changed her residency to Florida several years ago. Maybe she changed the locks.
Comment by SAP Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:55 am
“Protect your identity.”
This advice — like “use a strong password” — is very useful right up until the business or agency with which one is dealing fails to exercise even the most rudimentary security measures.
The 2017 Equifax data breach compromised the sensitive personal data of 148 million Americans — more than 40 percent of the population of the United States — including names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social security numbers, and driver’s license numbers. In addition, the credit card information of approximately 209,000 consumers was also exposed through Equifax’s data breach.
Once you participate in the 21st century economy, your personal data is in the hands of others — and there is very little that individuals can do to secure that data.
Stronger regulation of personal data would certainly help.
– MrJM
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3444488/equifax-data-breach-faq-what-happened-who-was-affected-what-was-the-impact.html
Comment by @misterjayem Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 9:59 am
“If there is one thing that can make a pandemic more depressing it’s being dark at 4:30 p.m.” One could argue that just across the dotted line, getting light at 8:30am would be equally depressing.
Comment by Skeptic Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 10:03 am
I wish someone who has more time on their hands than me can do a comparison of the COVID pandemic in Illinois compared to our neighboring states. My hunch is that we’re better than our neighbors, but I’d like to see that data that proves that.
Comment by Just Me 2 Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 10:05 am
I pay for the (hopefully never) service of a company that deals with Identity Theft. They can not prevent theft, but will do all the paper trail ‘clean up’ if it ever occurs.
Comment by Sayitaintso Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 10:17 am
Willy don’t forget in the loss to Douglas Lincoln won the state popular vote. The Democratic legislators pick Douglas And as to Georgia if the Radical Republicans would have had there way maybe the South would have been truly Republican rather than this Dixiecrat Republican stuff.
Comment by DuPage Saint Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 10:59 am
Bears win good. except that probably means Pace keeps his job. He needs to go.
Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 11:35 am
“one could argue”
Sure, because you always hear people say “Boy, I sure wish it was lighter earlier in the morning.”
Comment by Flying Elvis'-Utah Chapter Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 12:00 pm
(Tips cap to - SAP -)
- DuPage Saint -,
Good stuff.
A good reminder to Trumpkins in Illinois is that when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, and the angry, white, racist that were the southern state’s Democrats, they found a home and were embraced in 1968 by Nixon, thus flipping the party of Lincoln, first quietly and subculturally, and now with Trump, overtly and in totality.
Illinois?
Statewide, you have a moderate bend, as we all know, and know the score, and understand the Millers (both now) and Bost, but they are indeed Trumpkins, the Illinois Republicans that understand statewide tendencies and governing outside the understanding of regions, districts, even pockets… it goes back to LBJ… and a party embracing things to win, and things not very Lincoln.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 12:18 pm
Hello everyone in 2021. (And there was much rejoicing).
DST should be ended where we don’t move forward in March, just leave the clocks alone. Doing it the proposed way will really throw things off along the IL/IN border near Chicago, let alone the sunrise time change, etc.
As far as the new Cook County criminal court chief judge, that’s a start. Now we need Evans out, and an actual prosecutor in the State’s Attorney’s office.
Comment by thisjustinagain Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 12:27 pm
And Willy, a final note on when the Republican party went astray, thank you President Nixon. LBJ only got the Civil Rights Bill through because of our own flower loving Ev Dirksen. From way down south. He was supposedly advised to take a poll to see what his constituents’ wanted him to do. he replied, when he needed a poll to tell him what to do when he knew what was right, he would quit.
Comment by DuPage Saint Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 12:54 pm
- DuPage Saint -
That’s why you knew the racist underpinnings were real;
The GOP helped pass the Civil Rights Act, and yet when the Dixiecrats felt unwelcome they… went to the party that put the act over the top?
Dirksen played it beautifully(?)
Illinois, at the center of it all.
Be well, stay safe.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 1:00 pm
@thisjustinagain, so many good things in your post, but I’m wondering what about DST? apparently Ohio is joining Az and Hawaii as going on it year round. what proposed way?
Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 1:02 pm
Father Pfleger is out at St. Sabina’s Parish after a sex abuse allegation against him over 40 years ago is revealed:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1/5/22215973/father-michael-pfleger-removed-st-sabina-sexual-abuse-allegation
Comment by Essential State Employee Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 6:05 pm
==DST should be ended where we don’t move forward in March, just leave the clocks alone. Doing it the proposed way will really throw things off along the IL/IN border near Chicago, let alone the sunrise time change, etc.==
If we want to do away with time changes, especially considering the 90 West longitude (the focus point of Central Time) going through western Illinois, I would prefer year-round Standard Time. Once you experience the morning commute to work around 8AM in early January in twilight (under DST), let alone kids walking to school at night, tell me if you still think year-round DST is a great idea.
Comment by Essential State Employee Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 6:09 pm
To:
- Amalia - Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 1:02 pm:
@thisjustinagain, so many good things in your post, but I’m wondering what about DST? apparently Ohio is joining Az and Hawaii as going on it year round. what proposed way?
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Thank You for the compliment. This time the bill would have Illinois stay on DST year around, unlike prior years where Illinois would never go to DST in the first place. AZ never goes to DST, so during DST Arizona is two hours behind, even though Illinois is only one time zone East of AZ.
Comment by thisjustinagain Tuesday, Jan 5, 21 @ 7:38 pm