The Illinois take on Tim Walz - POLITICO
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- October 17, 2024
CHICAGO (WLS) — The University of Illinois has received FDA emergency use authorization for its saliva-based COVID-19 test called covidSHIELD, the university announced Monday. U of I campuses have already been using the test and now it can expand outside of the university system. So far, U of I has conducted more than 1.5 million
READ MORECHICAGO (CBS) — Illinois could face a housing crisis when the moratorium on evictions is lifted this month. But as CBS 2’s Jim Williams reported Monday, thousands of Chicago public housing homes are off limits – even though they’re vacant. READ MORE: Chicago Weather: Sunny And Breezy Tuesday In Logan Square, where affordable housing is
READ MOREThe federal government should follow the example of Illinois and abolish the death penalty. Many people assume the death penalty is reserved for only the most heinous crimes in which the convicted person’s guilt is beyond question. But that’s just not so. Before Illinois did away with capital punishment 10 years ago this month, the
READ MORESPRINGFIELD — Illinois House Democrats introduced a resolution Monday condemning Republican state Rep. Chris Miller for slapping a decal with the logo of a far-right anti-government militia group on his pick-up truck and accusing him of helping incite the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. State Rep. Bob Morgan, D-Deerfield, the original sponsor of
READ MORECHICAGO — A former executive vice president of a Chicago staffing company was sentenced today in federal court for assisting a factory owner with the hiring of undocumented workers. SERGIO BADANI used his role as Vice President of Operations for a large Chicago staffing company to knowingly conceal from the U.S. government the true identities
READ MOREThe number of COVID-19 vaccines shipped to Illinois and Chicago this week will increase by about 50% after a third vaccine got emergency authorization over the weekend. Johnson & Johnson is allocating 105,400 doses of its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine to Illinois and Chicago this week. The new shipments come as Pfizer also increases its weekly
READ MORE(The Center Square) – With the U.S. Senate preparing to take up a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, the Illinois Municipal League wants local governments, not the governor, to control dollars local governments are meant to get. City officials across Illinois have either passed annual budgets or are in the process of approving how they’ll
READ MOREIllinois House Transportation Committee moves two bills in first meeting of new session SPRINGFIELD — The state House Transportation committee advanced two bills to the House floor Monday in its first meeting of the 102nd General Assembly. The first bill would make spending by the Illinois Department of Transportation more transparent and accessible to the
READ MORE* Center Square… Personal information of nearly 9,000 Illinois families was sent by the state to the wrong mailing address in November and December last year. The state says they’re working to ensure the error doesn’t happen again. The Illinois Department of Central Management Services said Friday that a change of address registry from the
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