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* ICYMI: The Quincy City Council denied a controversial ordiance that would have made the town a ‘Sanctuary City for the Unborn.’ WGEM…
* ACLU of Illinois…
We applaud the majority of the Quincy City Council who this evening recognized that the ordinance aimed at limiting access to abortion care was unlawful and unenforceable. The vote came after Quincy residents – some of whom had never attended a City Council meeting – spoke up and urged the Council to reject the fantasies of anti-abortion activists, and focus on the needs of their community. Public participation at the local level clearly still matters.
* Related stories…
* Isabel’s top picks…
- Crain’s | NASCAR, city still negotiating second street race deal: The Johnson administration is still working toward a final agreement but has commitments from NASCAR to reimburse the city for costs at future races, according to the city official. However, the latest deal still leaves the city holding the bag from the 2023 race, which incurred $2.1 million in street repairs and another $1.1 million in police overtime, according to South Side Weekly.
- Tribune | Manteno EV battery plant promises 2,600 jobs. But far-right legislators are stoking fears over Chinese influence: “I really feel that all of you that think it is OK to have a Communist Chinese company here did not do your homework,” Manteno resident Amelia Cahill said at a recent village board meeting. “You are willing to jeopardize the health of everybody in Manteno and also surrounding areas.”
* Here’s the rest of your morning roundup…
* WTTW | State Lawmakers Seeking Community Input on Chicago’s Elected School Board Map. Here’s What to Know: Valerie Leonard, co-founder of Illinois African Americans for Equitable Redistricting, said her group’s proposed map will align city resources with CPS resources to support student outcomes. For Jessica Cañas, senior community engagement manager at Kids First Chicago, the issue with the Senate’s proposed maps is the lack of Latino representation. The maps are based on Chicago’s overall population, meaning fewer majority Latino districts.
* Sun-Times | Unveiling of city’s 2024 budget will be 2nd big test of Brandon Johnson’s leadership: Johnson will stand before the Chicago City Council and disclose how he plans to deliver on his campaign promise to make $1 billion worth of “investments in people” bankrolled by $800 million in new or increased taxes on businesses and wealthy Chicagoans.
* WBEZ | Boosting the wages of Chicago’s tipped workers could lift thousands out of poverty: To gain a snapshot of some of the region’s tipped workers and to get a sense of how the measure might impact those among them who work in the city, WBEZ analyzed data on wages and other variables from the U.S. Census Bureau 2021 American Community Survey prepared by the University of Minnesota. The numbers are the most recent data we could find that allows us to zoom in close enough to get a glance at tipped workers.
* Shaw Local | Tollway system looking ahead to billions more in construction projects: Although consisting only of 294 centerline miles, the Illinois Tollway system’s five roads span 12 counties and carry more than 1.5 million daily drivers. Other figures from the agency’s 2022 annual report reveal just how much happens on those 294 miles: Almost 80 million toll transactions each month – an average of 2.62 million per day.
* Tribune | Neighborhoods around the city are asked to house more migrants as number surpasses 18,000: Ald. Chris Taliaferro, 29th, said the proposed shelter at the Amundsen Park field house in Galewood was “fundamentally wrong” and that the decision by Mayor Brandon Johnson — who lives in the Austin neighborhood — to delay the move-in of asylum-seekers shows his commitment to listening and responding to the concerns of Chicagoans.
* Block Club | Austin Migrant Shelter Plans ‘On Hold’ After Fierce Neighbor Backlash, Alderman Says: Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th) announced Monday that plans to use Amundsen’s indoor facility at 6200 W. Bloomingdale Ave as a migrant shelter have been put “on hold” as the city works to determine if a nearby office and warehouse would be a more suitable site for a shelter.
* Sun-Times | Venezuelan migrant shot while holding her son outside South Side police station: Romero, 28, a Venezuelan asylum-seeker who has been living temporarily at the South Side police station, was wounded in the buttocks. A man, also a migrant from Venezuela, got hit in his right thigh, police said. Romero said she’d been in Chicago for only a week when she was shot Saturday afternoon.
* Crain’s | Sheriff’s office turns to old-school tactics to combat Mag Mile retail theft: “We wanted to create high visibility,” said Lt. Michael Rivers, who watched as his fellow officers apprehended a shoplifter after the manager at the Walgreens in the Wrigley Building called them. “And not just high visibility, we wanted interactions with the businesses up and down Michigan and Oak Street.”
* Tribune | City settlement deal demands silence from whistleblowers fired by Chicago Treasurer Conyears-Ervin: Of more than three dozen settlements reached with city workers over the past five years, the deal that Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration reached with the treasurer’s ex-employees was the only one that contained what amounts to a gag order, the Tribune found. In a handful of cases, former employees agreed not to discuss the terms of their settlements, but they could still speak freely about their time in city government.
* Sun-Times | Cut recommended to Peoples Gas’ $402M rate increase request, but it’s still a record hike: Consumer advocates want to see the proposed hike slashed below $290 million, which would still top the state’s previous all-time high increase of $240 million approved for Nicor in 2021.
* Crain’s | Northwestern’s Kellogg gets $25 million in memory of Sam Zell: Zell, one of Chicago’s best-known entrepreneurs, initially funded the Zell Fellows Program at Kellogg a decade ago. Nearly 200 second-year MBA students have participated in the program, launching 127 ventures, Kellogg says.
* AP | ‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse will slice across Americas on Saturday with millions along path: It’s a prelude to the total solar eclipse that will sweep across Mexico, the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada, in six months. Unlike Saturday, when the moon is too far from Earth to completely cover the sun from our perspective, the moon will be at the perfect distance on April 8, 2024.
* Tribune | A ‘Seinfeld’ reunion? Jerry Seinfeld hints that divisive finale might get a redo: “Something is going to happen that has to do with that ending. It hasn’t happened yet,” Seinfeld said to big cheers. “Just what you are thinking about, Larry [David] and I have also been thinking about. So, you’ll see.”
posted by Isabel Miller
Wednesday, Oct 11, 23 @ 7:43 am
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Re: SunTimes Story on Shooting Immigrants
=== standing outside the Grand Crossing police station with her young son in her arms when gunmen rolled up in a Jeep Grand Cherokee and started shooting ===
What sort of Nation are we when this sort of hate toward asylees and refugees persists? This is but one example of xenophobia. Suggesting this is but a rogue actor and an isolated event ignores the level of vitriol and hatred spewed in our State (and our Nation) right now by local and state politicians as well as lay people today.
We must openly reject this hatred. We must confront it openly, whether it takes the form of Awake Illinois or Republican platforms (platitudes). It is time to end this hate.
Comment by H-W Wednesday, Oct 11, 23 @ 9:54 am
Commando Ives must be delirious that her Manteno rant has made Tribbie Page 1. Finally someone gives her attention. BTW story also mentions no one made a peep when same Commie company opened a plant in Ohio during Trump times.
Comment by Annonin' Wednesday, Oct 11, 23 @ 10:00 am
Gotion is in the news again today in the Tribune, but thinking the local concerns the Manteno moms, Vets and community folks about the air those folks breath, the water they drink and the effect on their community will probably play a bigger role in the final resolution of weather or not this factory will be built in that community than the State Reps. that showed up to discuss China concerns.
Comment by Back to the Future Wednesday, Oct 11, 23 @ 10:13 am
This notion that abortion will be overshadowed in voters’ minds due to “this” or “that”, keep in mind that there are currently states in the United States that see a woman’s rights to her own body are not her own, but are dictated by “the laws of man”.
Ignoring Quincy and other places not fulfilling the want to limit women is a political mistake and an actual “not learning anything”
My hope is Republicans feel a need to appease cultists of purity and in primaries talk about abortion… and voters vote accordingly.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 11, 23 @ 11:23 am
=== What sort of Nation are we when this sort of hate toward asylees and refugees persists? ===
The same nation we have always been, sadly.
Comment by Hannibal Lecter Wednesday, Oct 11, 23 @ 11:53 am
The tollway should go ahead with the Illiana I-57 to I-65 by-pass. That would help reduce a lot of congestion and heavy truck traffic off of the existing expressways.
Comment by DuPage Wednesday, Oct 11, 23 @ 12:41 pm
“The same nation we have always been, sadly.”
Next year, with the migrants and Democratic Convention in Chicago, the outrage meter will be off the charts for many. Can their poor old hearts take it? Many are up in age or not in the best of health.
Comment by Grandson of Man Wednesday, Oct 11, 23 @ 12:48 pm
” Crain’s | Northwestern’s Kellogg gets $25 million in memory of Sam Zell”
Sam Zell was amazingly generous in life, the donations in his memory are an incredible testament to a larger-than-life entrepreneur.
Comment by Donnie Elgin Wednesday, Oct 11, 23 @ 1:16 pm
===Sam Zell was amazingly generous in life===
How did he make his money?
A quick Google search… and generosity… hmm.
Odd.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 11, 23 @ 2:13 pm
Zell helped in ruining the Cubs and the Trib, but this lil bit about the “grave dancer” is always a reminder that money is designed to prop up bad actors to seem philanthropic.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/11/sam-zell-mobile-home-king-evictions-hell
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 11, 23 @ 2:20 pm
==The tollway should go ahead with the Illiana I-57 to I-65 by-pass. ==
Then extend the Illiana west to I-55 as originally planned (near Wilmington) before Rauner cancelled the project.
Then take the “Illiana” even further west and southwest. Extend it to Peoria. Then resurrect Route 336 from Macomb to Peoria from the dead and bring that project back. Regardless of whether or not the locals want it.
Comment by Stuck in Celliniland Wednesday, Oct 11, 23 @ 2:28 pm