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The union has more than 150,000 Illinois members and its Local 73 represents 2,600 workers in the secretary of state’s office, more than half the office’s employees, he said. Tom Balanoff, president of SEIU Local 1, said Giannoulias “understands what critical issues are most important to the hardworking families across our state.” Full story here.
The teams finished with identical records this season, prompting a “coin flip” that didn’t go the Cavs’ way. The drawings were conducted by NBA executive vice president Kiki VanDeWeghe at the league office in Secaucus, New Jersey, and overseen by the accounting firm Ernst & Young.
“I hear from women working late hours in the hospitality industry, who can no longer afford a safe car trip home from work late at night,” he said. “Instead, they are forced to risk their personal safety using the CTA system. This wasn’t a problem before the obliteration of the taxicab industry.”
Editorial cartoonist Bill Mauldin, whose bedraggled “Willie and Joe” characters famously represented the lowly “dogface” foot soldiers of World War II, won two Pulitzer Prizes, the…
At the start of the 2019-2020 school year, 295 CPS school buildings, out of 642 total, were accessible to students and staff with mobility disabilities, according to an August 2020 report by Access Living, a disability rights advocacy group. The majority of accessible schools are high schools, Access Living found, and a significant number of CPS schools, mostly charter and option schools, are not rated for accessibility.
The teen, who returned home before contacting police, told officers he entered an apartment building in the 1500 block of Fairway Drive about 8:30 p.m. when he was confronted by three males, one of whom told him to give them his belongings, the release said.
In a social media statement, Berwyn police and fire department said they responded to a “building explosion” and “fire incident” at 2 p.m. Tuesday, which was determined to be accidental in nature. In a livestream by WGN-TV, smoke and debris could be seen in the area and a large portion of a building appeared damaged.
He was 17 when he killed Molley Lanham, 19, of St. John, and Thomas Grill, 18, of Cedar Lake, on Feb. 25, 2019, at his grandparents’ Hebron-area home after a drug deal went bad, then loaded their bodies into the Honda Civic they arrived in and set fire to the vehicle in a wooded area a couple miles away.
As of 2020, 37 states have laws that criminalize HIV exposure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If Illinois passes the bill, it will join five other states — California, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan and North Carolina — that have done away with HIV criminalization laws since 2014.
Because of waning demand, other mass vaccination centers in Chicago also will be packing up in the next few months, Arwady said. Chicagoans, however, will still have access to widely available vaccines, just in a different format, as officials adjust their efforts toward convincing more hesitant residents to get the shot, Arwady said.