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* AP…

At least 453,000 workers have participated in 312 strikes in the U.S. this year, according to Johnnie Kallas, a Ph.D. candidate and the project director of Cornell University’s Labor Action Tracker. This year’s work stoppages have spread across multiple industries — including transportation, entertainment and hospitality.

* Dude was in the Illinois General Assembly for four years and yet believes he lives in California or another ballot initiative state…

Either that, or he’s counting on his base to be ignorant.

* ISP…

With information provided by the community, the Illinois State Police (ISP) Division of Criminal Investigation has been able to identify the vehicle and driver believed to be involved in the September 29, 2023 crash just outside of Teutopolis that resulted in five fatalities and multiple injuries.

“Thank you to the communities of Montrose and Teutopolis, and everyone who provided information to ISP,” said ISP Director Brendan F. Kelly. “The information we received from the community has been instrumental in identifying the vehicle and driver believed to be involved in this case.”

On Friday, September 29, 2023, ISP, the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office, Teutopolis Fire Protection District, and other local law enforcement, fire, and emergency services responded to a crash that occurred at 8:42 p.m. on 19740 East U.S. Highway 40. The crash involved a semi-truck tanker carrying 7,500 gallons of anhydrous ammonia, of which approximately 4,000 leaked due to the tank being punctured. Due to the plume from the ammonia leak, roughly 500 residents were evacuated from northeastern parts of Teutopolis until around 8 p.m. on Saturday, September 30, 2023, and U.S. Highway 40 was closed between Effingham and Montrose.

ISP continues to investigate and is consulting with the Effingham County State’s Attorney. No additional information is available at this time.

* Got a lot of texts on this topic today…

That’s accurate, as long as state’s attorneys do their jobs. Threatening a public official is a detainable offense.

* Isabel’s afternoon roundup…

* Crain’s | Former Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald suing university over firing: Former Northwestern University head football coach Pat Fitzgerald filed a lawsuit seeking more than $100 million against the university and its president, Michael Schill, alleging Fitzgerald was fired improperly after allegations of hazing in the football program came to light.

* Capitol News Illinois | State-run developmental center in Dixon will not lose Medicare funding despite citations: Mabley Developmental Center in Dixon has two pending “immediate jeopardy” citations from the Illinois Department of Public Health in connection with resident physical abuse and failure to properly address the spread of a bacterial infection at the facility. […] IDHS Director of Developmental Disabilities Tonya Piephoff said in an interview on Friday the corrective action plan has been submitted, but the immediate jeopardy citation is only purged after a reinspection from the IDPH to ensure the mitigations outlined in it are underway. IDHS and IDPH can negotiate the plans until they are accepted.

* Crain’s | New public-private partnership looks to spur Midwestern climate investment: The Chicagoland Climate Investment Alliance will aim to spur investments in building decarbonization and secure federal grants for climate-resilient technologies developed in the Midwest. Along with the city and state, the Alliance’s public and private members include World Business Chicago, Invenergy, ComEd, Nicor Gas and Jones Lang Lasalle. The group will also receive support on federal grants and startup collaborations from several partners including 1871, the Energy Policy Institute & the Polsky Center at the University of Chicago and mHUB.

* Block Club | CTA President Will Be Required To Meet With City Council Quarterly As Train, Bus Service Woes Continue: When the hearing requirement ordinance was considered last year, aldermen had debated freezing funding for Carter’s signature Red Line expansion project until he improved the transit system’s reliability. In last year’s failed ordinance, Vasquez tried to tie CTA funding to the president fulfilling City Council appearances — an ultimatum not included this time around.

* Tribune | Changes, turnover on Chicago Police Board in ongoing shakeup: The Chicago Police Board, the nine-person body that metes out discipline in the most serious cases of alleged misconduct by Chicago police officers, is in a state of flux. No longer does the board have a say in who should be CPD superintendent, and the union representing rank-and-file CPD officers contends that cops facing disciplinary charges should be afforded the option to have their cases decided by a third-party arbitrator — a potential departure from 60 years of precedent.

* ABC Chicago | Workers at CSL Behring plant in Bradley reach deal to end strike: Last week, more than 700 workers walked off the job in Bradley. The plant in Bradley is the second largest employer in Kankakee County with a total workforce of 1,500. The union said they will get yearly raises, a $2,500 ratification signing bonus and their insurance premiums will remain the same.

* Crain’s | Chicago parking company SP Plus to be acquired in $1.5 billion deal: Metropolis Technologies has agreed to pay $54 a share for SP Plus, which a press release says is a premium of about 52% to its closing price Wednesday and a premium of about 28% to the stock’s 52-week high.

* SJ-R | UIS announces new financial aid program for first-time students: The school announced Wednesday the Prairie Promise program, a trial initiative that takes care of tuition and fees for first-time, first-year in-state undergraduate students enrolled in on-campus degree programs, beginning in the fall of 2024. Any student applying for the program must be eligible for the Illinois Monetary Award Program (MAP), as the program will use MAP grant funds along with scholarships, awards, and AIM HIGH grant funds to cover all costs.

* Tribune | Judge orders man accused of operating illegal puppy mill to remain in jail for parole violation: Rajcinoski has been in jail since a May 2023 raid of his Center Township home and a pole barn on a property he owns in Rensselaer in Jasper County. Investigators discovered a new alleged puppy mill operation and a total of 41 dogs.

* Daily Herald | Des Plaines officials targeting O’Hare travelers parking on city streets: To solve the problem, Oakley proposed the city ban overnight parking on residential streets, but Walsten wasn’t keen on that idea. Walsten instead suggested the city post resident-parking-only signs on Cedar, Scott, Magnolia and Hickory streets and some others. The restriction would be enforced by police officers who would respond to complaints about cars rather than patrolling the neighborhoods seeking scofflaws, Chief David Anderson said.

* CBS Chicago | University of Chicago alum Moungi Bawendi shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on quantum dots: “These tiny particles have unique properties and now spread their light from television screens and LED lamps. They catalyze chemical reactions and their clear light can illuminate tumor tissue for a surgeon,” said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which announced the award in Stockholm.

* Block Club | This Whitney Young Senior’s Method Of Predicting Wildfires Is Wowing International Scientists: Agrawal, a South Loop resident and senior at Whitney M. Young Magnet School, is not only interested in wildfire prevention but also in advancing environmental justice. She said she’s deeply concerned about the effects of climate change and wildfires on “environmentally disadvantaged” communities.

posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 2:37 pm

Comments

1. Fitzgerald admitting to agreeing to his two game suspension than upset that the NU student newspaper dug way deeper putting pressure on the university to fire Fitzgerald has so much of the “Scooby-Doo Villian” vibes.

   “I woulda got away with it too, if it wasn’t for you meddling student journalist”

   Webb claiming 40-50 “witnesses” to uphold the integrity of Fitzgerald only buys the University more cache that it was a culture riddled with toxicity and protecting that culture at all costs.

   The university now gets to scapegoat Fitzgerald for it all, most of all the athletic department toxic culture.

   You sue a school you were part of for 24+ years over a 3 decade period and that same school is gonna pin a toxic culture of hazing, sexualized and racial, to you… you think you’re gonna work again?

   In the era of emails, texts, video, social media… Fitzgerald is gonna show that the case against him is unfounded?

   Fitzgerald better be ready for his own deposition, who knows who will come forward “for ole NU” and swear under oath a probable fact to sink him

   Meanwhile, a Catholic institution is allowing Fitzgerald to volunteer with 14-18 men and boys in their football culture

   Whew.

   Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 3:03 pm

2. “Either that, or he’s counting on his base to be ignorant.”
   Capt Fax we believe most everyone knows that being ignorant is the minimum entrance threshold for Gomer’s little clubhouse.

   Comment by Annonin' Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 3:06 pm

3. The people losing their minds over migrant issues are so wildly off the mark. Undocumented / ‘illegal’ immigrants are not sleeping at police stations. They are living in apartments and working cash jobs. They are paying for services while busting their rears in construction or food service or agriculture.

   The migrants in shelters are asylum seekers who are here legally. The biggest solution would just be the feds getting off their butts and promptly processing asylum requests so these people can fill one of the numerous employment vacancies that are all over the place and afford their own residences and food and the like.

   Comment by Homebody Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 3:07 pm

4. The Whitney Young student is amazing.

   Comment by very old soil Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 3:10 pm

5. “you think you’re gonna work again?”

   I was going to say, he could be hired to be the Joliet Catholic High School football coach tomorrow, and there would be cheers throughout town.

   But you mostly hit on that in your last sentence.

   Comment by TheInvisibleMan Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 3:13 pm

6. - TheInvisibleMan -

   It’s such an odd dynamic.

   When you look at the situation, and look at what role is being played, it’s shocking that Loyola Academy went down this road.

   Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 3:17 pm

7. He 100 percent knows his base is ignorant.

   Comment by Toddling Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 3:25 pm

8. As Darren Bailey has nothing of substance to say, he continues with labels. Now he refers to JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson as spineless politicians. This continues his pattern of labels adopted during his failed campaign for governor.

   Bailey’s hair-on-fire commentary is another example of a politician without a platform.

   Might be time to sit on the porch, Darren.

   Comment by Rudy’s teeth Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 3:31 pm

9. Either that, or he’s counting on his base to be ignorant.

   That’s the feature

   Comment by Frida's boss Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 3:31 pm

10. To Bailey?

    Easy.

    If Bost feels a need *after* Bailey’s screed to respond… it’s a harsh reminder that Bost won’t be running as the adult to Bailey’s child-like tantrums but Bost will continue to help Bailey spread his vitriol as acceptable political discourse, and it’s necessary to embrace this to beat Bailey

    Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 3:43 pm

11. 100% what I thought when I read about the Madison incident.

    Comment by Original Rambler Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 4:02 pm

12. ==aldermen had debated freezing funding for Carter’s signature Red Line expansion project==

    Missed an opportunity to kill this $3B boondoggle.

    Comment by Slugger O’Toole Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 4:27 pm

13. Agree with @Very Old Soil that the Whitney Young student did amazing work.
    Whitney Young is a Chicago High School that is clearly one of the best High Schools in Illinois.

    Comment by Back to the Future Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 4:54 pm

14. OW on it as usual re that football scandal. Dueling lawyers, Webb vs. Tony Romanuci. It’s getting really hot. Webb victim blaming was horrible to hear. He lost the Dominion case and he’s onto third party help. With the victims banding together and the university saying hazing happened, that coach is depending on stereotypical denial of actions by people who may well have been in on it, bullies against victims.

    Comment by Amalia Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 5:33 pm

15. “ Either that, or he’s counting on his base to be ignorant.”
    I’m afraid that the average voter on either side is ignorant.
    The folks here are way above average from what I see.

    Comment by Bruce( no not him) Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 5:42 pm

16. Meanwhile, in opposite land, Indiana State Police are furious because a joyrider killed three people after speeding up to 120 mph and crashing. Posts $1,000, and out the door he goes.

    https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/indianapolis-bar-association-pushes-back-against-comments-from-isp-superintendent-on-suspects-release-in-deadly-crash/

    I want to note that a lot of people who are decrying the SAFE-T Act the loudest and saying the cash bond system was better were also the ones relentlessly linking and commenting on any story about a crime in Chicago allegedly committed by someone out on bail, because that was *also* Kim Foxx’s fault.

    The real solution these people want, though they will not say it out loud, is that everyone accused of a crime should be detained indefinitely until trial.

    Comment by Roadrager Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 6:25 pm

17. RIP Dick Butkus. Very sudden and sad.

    Comment by Grandson of Man Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 6:28 pm

18. “he’s counting on his base to be ignorant.”
    Ding ding ding ding ding.

    Comment by btowntruthfromforgottonia Thursday, Oct 5, 23 @ 9:23 pm

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