CHICAGO — In an about-face, Mayor Brandon Johnson is now asking aldermen to approve using another $70 million in city funds to maintain this year’s migrant response. This week, the mayor’s office began briefing City Council members on plans to push through the item as a means to keep afloat the city’s costly response to the 38,000-plus asylum seekers who have made their way to Chicago since .
CHICAGO — In olden times, the phrase “going Hollywood” carried a double-edged sword. It signified great things (fame, riches, dancing with “sun-kissed babies,” as the 1933 song “Going Hollywood” put it) as well as dubious ones (selling out, grasping for dollars, prostitution of one kind or another). Last month Gov. J.B. Pritzker went Hollywood, with high hopes for strengthening the economic .
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday announced the appointment of a northwest suburban lawmaker to head the state’s Department of Insurance. State Sen. Ann Gillespie of Arlington Heights will step down from her legislative post to lead the agency as acting director. Her appointment requires confirmation by the state senate. She replaces Dana Popish Severinghaus, who assumed the .
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate’s minority leader proposed legislation Tuesday to overhaul Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Prisoner Review Board after it released a convicted domestic abuser who then attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son. Republican Leader John Curran criticized Pritzker and said he plans legislation to require that […]
The Illinois Senate's minority leader proposed legislation Tuesday to overhaul the Democrat's Prisoner Review Board, after it released a convicted domestic abuser who then attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son. Republican Leader John Curran criticized Gov. J.B. Pritzker and said he will introduce legislation that includes requirements for appointees to have 20 years’ criminal justice experience as a prosecutor, defense attorney, probation officer or judge and that each member undergo annual training on domestic violence and sexual assault and the warning signs that precede repeat attacks. “For too long, these $100,000-a-year positions at the Prisoner Review Board have been given to political appointees who don’t have the requisite experience to make these life-and-death decisions,” Curran, who's from the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, told reporters in a teleconference.