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U.S. Rep. Marie Newman (IL-03) is being sued by Chicago college professor Iymen Chehade, who alleges that she violated a contract to offer him a job in exchange for dropping out of the March 2020 congressional primary. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)
OAK LAWN, IL A college professor is suing U.S. Rep. Marie Newman, claiming that she violated a contract to give him a job on her staff if he dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary in the 3rd Congressional District.
In March 2018, the complaint asserts, plaintiff Iymen Chehade, an adjunct history professor at Columbia College, began mulling a run in the 2020 congressional Democratic primary. Newman also planned a second run for Congress in the 3rd District, having lost the primary district by a narrow margin to incumbent Dan Lipinski. Conscious of the district s large Palestinian-American community, Newman reached out to Chehade in 2018, offering him a job on her staff sh
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Others called for Illinois to drop other restrictions, including mask requirements, capacity limits at bars, restaurants and other venues, and restrictions imposed by local schools.
Despite the calls for restrictions to be dropped, many still said mask requirements should be kept. Keep the mask mandate for a little while longer, but open everything up, one Patch reader wrote.
In fact, asked how much longer the state should impose its mask mandate, a plurality nearly 45 percent, or over 1,900 said masks should be worn as long as Illinois health officials say they are necessary.
But the second-largest group around 1,700, or 40 percent of those who responded were in favor of scrapping the mask mandate entirely right now.
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More than 33.7 million Illinois residents have been vaccinated, with about 25 percent of the population having received their first dose, according to state data. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
ILLINOIS Thursday marked one year since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic and Saturday will mark exactly a year since Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered all schools closed.
This week, Patch polled readers on how they think Illinois has fared during the pandemic, on how they feel Pritzker has managed the crisis, and on their own comfort level when it comes to resuming normal activities. More than 3,400 readers responded.
Woodstock Willie Groundhog Breaks With Punxsutawney Phil, Predicts Early Spring
On 2/2/21 at 12:51 PM EST
Will we get an early spring this year, or are we stuck with six more weeks of winter? It depends on which groundhog you ask (you read that right). On Groundhog Day, which takes place every year on February 2, legend has it that if the groundhog sees his shadow because of clear skies, we get six more weeks of winter. However, if he doesn t see his shadow due to cloudiness, spring will come early.
Illinois Woodstock Willie, the relatively svelte rodent, predicted an early spring, Crystal Lake-Cary, Illinois Patch reported on Tuesday morning. He emerged from a tree trunk in Woodstock Square for the coronavirus-friendly celebration and did not see his shadow.
“Our work is more prevalent in the summertime,” Butler says. “A lot of people were interested, and we would get a lot of people that would come off the bus [as we were] stationed outside.”
The giveaways are part of the Corner Store Campaign, a longstanding initiative organized by the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), and in the midst of a global pandemic, organizers say neighborhoods need access to fresh food more than ever before.
“This issue [of food insecurity] affects us all as most people tend to live near a corner store,” Butler says. “People should want to have access to fresh fruit and vegetables, particularly if they live in a food desert. So we should want to have less loitering and have more healthy alternatives in our corner stores.”