Politics

Sunshine Week: U.S. Attorney General talks about FOIA (Washington, D.C.) - Attorney General Garland Delivers Remarks at Department of Justice Sunshine Week Celebration.

DuPage Twp: Felix George using Township Funds For Censure In Apparent Electioneering Purpose (DuPage Township, IL) - After DuPage Township's failed meeting of December 4, 2020, where two trustees leaving office and one supervisor who is seeking election used a public meeting in a failed attempt at censuring a fellow trustee, resulting in a lawsuit, it appears they will repeat that process at the March 16, 2021, township meeting.

Illinois Supreme Court Says Thaddeus Jones May Be On Ballot For Calumet City Mayor (Calumet City, IL) - Thaddeus Jones is positioned to become the first African American Mayor in the 120-year history of Calumet City, Illinois.

For generations, our children have been left behind when it comes to education and forced to succeed with a lack of resources that would be unimaginable for others. I’m fighting to end unequal treatment in schools and provide fair funding for our children, our families and our neighborhoods.

6 Questions Officials Still Haven’t Answered After Weeks of Hearings on the Capitol Attack (Washington DC) - After two weeks of congressional hearings, it remains unclear how a rampaging mob of rioters managed to breach one of the most sacred bastions of American democracy on Jan. 6.

1 Bridge = 10,000 Jobs; Union of the Unemployed Protest Kicks Off Downtown Chicago (Chicago, IL) - Over one hundred cars circled around the Thompson Center this afternoon, honking their horns and demanding that Governor J.B. Pritzker sign off on the building of a bridge that would help NorthPoint Development's proposed Compass Logistics Park in Joliet.

On March 3, 2021, Illinois Senator Melinda Bush SB0345, entitled the "Carpet Stewardship Act" which would implement "fee" or "assessment" (tax), per square yard, for all carpet sold in the State of Illinois.

"The areas that surround Homewood are lacking jobs and economic opportunity. Illinois ranks highest in the nation among Black unemployment. This area houses a huge percentage of the Black population in Illinois. To deny us economic opportunity and employment is horrible, says Chamber president.

Owen Costanza’s Response Misleading; Doesn’t Match Public Records (Poplar Grove, IL) -Yesterday we published complaints against Owen Costanza by the Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin State Insurance Licensing Regulators, and Costanza responded with his version of what he was willing to tell us.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Needs to Order his Appointed IDPH Director to Immediately Implement the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act - Sec: 8 against those Nursing Homes that aren’t in compliance.