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The Spin: U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos to retire | Following report, Pritzker says he fell short in hiring ex-VA boss

Democratic U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos of Moline says she won’t seek reelection next year in northwest and west central Illinois’ 17th Congressional District after narrowly fending off Republican Esther Joy King in last year’s contest. “I feel it’s time for a new voice,” she said in a video announcement. It also comes as the district is starting to lean more heavily Republican. Once a rising star . ....

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The Spin: U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos to retire | Following report, Pritzker says he fell short in hiring ex-VA boss | Illinois AG's office hit by ransomware attack

The Spin: U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos to retire | Following report, Pritzker says he fell short in hiring ex-VA boss | Illinois AG's office hit by ransomware attack
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Chicago fire safety enforcement needs fixing, advocates tell Lightfoot

Chicago fire safety enforcement needs fixing, advocates tell Lightfoot
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Facing post-pandemic wave of evictions, housing advocates in Chicago aim to help tenants

Despite an eviction moratorium in Illinois, Luz Franco, 51, says she was nudged into leaving her apartment late last year after she got COVID-19 and missed work, which led to a late rent payment. She lost heat in her unit and some of her belongings were found on the front lawn.
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When Luz Franco got sick with COVID-19, she missed work and knew she wouldn’t have the money to pay the rent on her apartment in Brighton Park.
Franco, 51, figured she could give what she had to her landlord until she was able to catch up.
But she says the landlord said she was a year behind on rent, and soon she found the heat had been turned off in her apartment, and one day her son found some of their belongings on the front lawn. ....

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Hurricane Warning

GOING TO THE SOURCE: Crown Heights Tenant Union and other NYC housing organizations members march on December 11 from the Brooklyn Housing Court to the law offices of Balsamo, Rosenblatt & Hall, a law firm that specializes in evicting tenants.Photo: Sue Brisk.
Tenant organizers in Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Missouri, Illinois & California speak out.
The United States could see a Hurricane Katrina of evictions next month, as the federal Center for Disease Control’s limited moratorium on evictions and two programs expanding unemployment benefits are scheduled to expire by Dec. 31.
In late September, the National Council of State Housing Agencies projected that by January 2021, up to 8.4 million renter households containing more than 20 million people could have eviction cases filed against them. It estimated that would include more than 1 million people in California, 860,000 in Tex-as, and 730,000 in New York. ....

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