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* Tribune | Trial date for alleged Highland Park parade shooter could be announced in September: Crimo, who is charged with seven counts of first-degree murder among 100 felony charges stemming from the July 4, 2022, mass shooting, appeared Tuesday at a case management hearing that lasted less than five minutes.

* Sun-Times | Half of Chicagoans witness a shooting by age 40, study found: Over half of Black and Latino survey respondents, and a quarter of white respondents, had seen a shooting by age 40, according to the study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

* WBEZ | Former Illinois State Senator Tom Cullerton convicted in corruption scheme gets a new job — state lobbyist: Lissa Druss, Strategia’s founder and chief executive, said, “People make mistakes. Tom is taking this opportunity to pay back his restitution, but more importantly, our firm is getting involved in a [prisoner] reentry program, and Tom will be volunteering some of his time to help returning citizens.”

* Crain’s | Springfield progressives push to impose a wealth tax: Unhappy with the direction state budget talks are going, a group of Springfield’s leading progressive lawmakers today announced a new drive to move two much-discussed ideas that repeatedly have been shot down in the General Assembly: imposing a wealth tax and slashing the fee retailers get for collecting state sales taxes. In a Springfield press conference, officials including Sen. Robert Peters and Rep. Will Guzzardi, both Chicago Democrats, said their ideas would generate a combined nearly $700 million a year for school, housing and related programs at a time when state revenues have begun to decline and potential spending cuts may be on the way.

* Tribune | Medical debt initiative on track to erase $80 million in unpaid doctor bills for nearly 73,000 Cook County residents: The first round of debt-buying has spent down just $800,000 of the county’s allotted $12 million for the federal funded program. Officials hope to erase $1 billion in debt before its expiration.

* WAND | Critics of the draft voting map for Chicago’s elected school board want a do-over: “Springfield is proposing a map that sets the table for a majority white board that governs the outcomes of BIPOC students and families,” said Daniel Anello, CEO of the nonprofit Kids First Chicago, in a statement. In releasing the draft map, lawmakers said the 20 districts “keep communities of interest as whole as possible” and reflect the “diversity of Chicago,” according to a news release.

* Tribune | Family and colleagues honor fallen CPD Officer Aréanah Preston in evening vigil; 5 in custody in connection with shooting: “She was a lion,” said 5th District Cmdr. Tyrone Pendarvis. “She was a delight of a person — and that’s the type of officer we need.”

* Crain’s | Court denies Chicago Sun-Times’ motion to dismiss defamation lawsuit: The Appellate Court of Illinois denied motions by the Chicago Sun-Times to dismiss a lawsuit by a former state official accusing the newspaper of misrepresenting his role in the 2011 property tax assessment of the Trump International Hotel & Tower. Mauro Glorioso, a former executive director for the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board, filed a defamation lawsuit against Sun-Times Media Holdings and its investigative reporter Tim Novak in January 2021, alleging that two articles released in February and October 2020 about the Trump Tower property tax appeal “falsely depicted him as a corrupt political official, lacking integrity in his profession,” according to a May 8 filing by the appellate court.

* Tribune | Mayor Lori Lightfoot declares state of emergency over migrants arriving in Chicago: ‘We’ve reached a breaking point’: The executive order marked the outgoing administration’s grimmest prognosis yet on how Chicago’s most vulnerable new arrivals will fare as the city braces for the imminent end of its runway on financial assistance. It came nine months after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, began shepherding recent refugees from Central and South America onto one-way bus rides to Chicago, arguing that liberal “sanctuary cities” should readily take on more of the burden stemming from the border crisis.

* Tribune | City treasurer moves to bolster community lending in Albany Park, other Northwest Side neighborhoods: The Chicago treasurer’s office deposited $10 million of its cash holdings into Albany Bank & Trust Co., a community bank on the Northwest Side, in a move aimed at bolstering affordable housing construction and small business creation in neighborhoods such as Albany Park, according to City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin.

* Sun-Times | Florida Gov. DeSantis to hit Peoria this week — and how he’ll play depends entirely on which party you ask: Organizers of the downstate Lincoln Day Dinner say DeSantis will “speak on his successful Florida Blueprint,” as Republicans “fight the radical Progressive Left’s Marxist agenda here in Illinois.” But Gov. J.B. Pritzker said, “DeSantis’ views are not what we call freedom in Illinois.”

* AP | What is Title 42 and how has US used it to curb migration?: Title 42 has been used more than 2.8 million times to expel migrants since its implementation. However, children traveling alone were exempt. Also, it has been unevenly enforced by nationality, partly because it’s harder to expel people to some countries, including Venezuela and Cuba.

* USA Today | Climate change is bad for everyone. But this is where it’s expected to be worst in the US.: San Francisco faces above-average risk across these categories and more, and it is the nation’s most exposed large city, Kamins said. It’s one of those urban areas where residents aren’t used to temperature extremes and many homes don’t have air conditioning, he said. In a world where temperatures rise 5 to 10 degrees, San Francisco residents are ill-equipped for dealing with heat, and that could be economically damaging.

* Tribune | Illinois environmentalists point to crucial role of wetlands in Supreme Court case that pits ecology against property rights: In the coming days, the U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether the federal government has jurisdiction over wetlands similar to Marian Byrnes. A case that pits property rights against ecology, Sackett v. EPA challenges whether isolated wetlands — those that do not abut a flowing body of water — fall under the purview of the Clean Water Act. The federal law regulates the discharge of pollutants into navigable waters such as lakes and rivers.

* Tribune | How did the Chicago White Sox home run jacket come to be? Elvis Andrus on the inspiration behind the fashion.: “Elvis came up with it. I love the idea,” infielder Jake Burger said recently. “It’s a little Chicago mobster-type outfit and my wife says I look good. That’s the positive.

* Sun-Times | Grace Barry, who headed up the Economic Club of Chicago and was best friends with Maggie Daley, dies at 82: Her close relationship with the Daleys helped her land the job as the first female head of the Economic Club in 1986. She held the post for more than 25 years, according to former Cook County Assessor Jim Houlihan, a friend of Barry’s since their days growing up in the Beverly neighborhood on the South Side.

posted by Isabel Miller
Wednesday, May 10, 23 @ 7:46 am

Comments

=fight the radical Progressive Left’s Marxist agenda here in Illinois.=

I love it when people use words and have absolutely no idea what they actually mean.

Comment by JS Mill Wednesday, May 10, 23 @ 8:46 am
What people can read
What people can say
What companies can say
Attacking the marginal
etc on actions of a repressive State

Yes, DeSantis is the one to call others Marxist

Comment by Lurker Wednesday, May 10, 23 @ 9:09 am
“I love it when people use words and have absolutely no idea what they actually mean.”

“Radical Marxist agenda” and other utter nonsense talking points are the GOP’s bread and butter, and have been for years. After all these decades and Democrats in power, the only place communism exists is in the minds of those who want to believe it regardless of objective reality.

Comment by Grandson of Man Wednesday, May 10, 23 @ 9:12 am
==successful Florida Blueprint==

Well, I suppose if you consider legislating hate and weaponizing the government to go after your enemies then, yeah, it’s successful.

There is absolutely nothing about Florida that I would want Illinois to emulate (no matter what our resident court jester on this comment board says).

Comment by Demoralized Wednesday, May 10, 23 @ 9:17 am
Cullerton is redefining the revolving door of Illinois politics - out the Statehouse door, into the prison doors, out the prison doors and right back to the Statehouse. His new salary will be higher than his Senate/ ghost job pay.

Comment by Moved East Wednesday, May 10, 23 @ 9:24 am
Who’s the next former state senator to become a lobbyist?

Comment by Torco Sign Wednesday, May 10, 23 @ 9:42 am
=Who’s the next former state senator to become a lobbyist?=

Bailey

Comment by JS Mill Wednesday, May 10, 23 @ 11:01 am
===Bailey===

lol

Who’s gonna hire him?

Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, May 10, 23 @ 11:07 am
==Who’s gonna hire him?==

Illinois Association of Flamethrower Manufacturers?

Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Wednesday, May 10, 23 @ 11:34 am