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The health fund’s $61.1 million deficit partly stems from CountyCare, Cook County’s Medicaid managed care plan, ballooning in membership, which both adds revenues but drives up claims expenses. Also, because Medicaid redetermination, which is requiring people to reapply for eligibility, is expected to return to Illinois next year, CountyCare membership is projected to fall from 418,000 members at the end of the year to 390,000 in 2022, Cook County Health Chief Business Officer Andrea Gibson said.
Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff jokes with a teen during a vaccination at a Esperanza Health Center vaccination site in the Englewood neighborhood ,as part of the “We Can Do This” vaccination awareness bus tour, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
The approximately 3-acre, 1.2 million-square-foot site interests developers because an ordinance, introduced in March by a downtown alderman, would allow the site to be zoned to accommodate one of the tallest skyscrapers in the city, according to city officials. If the measure is approved by City Council, the building’s square footage could be replaced by a tower of more than 2 million square feet — enough space to reach 100 stories or more.
Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff jokes with a teen during a vaccination at an Esperanza Health Center site in the Englewood neighborhood as part of the “We Can Do This” vaccination awareness bus tour on June 23, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
“Fitch’s improved outlook for Illinois is yet another sign of positive momentum for our state’s fiscal condition, a testament to strong financial management and responsible actions by the General Assembly and my administration, and a product of the state’s economic resilience,” Pritzker said. “The story of Illinois in 2021 is that in the face of a crisis, fiscal discipline and smart economic policy pays off.”
Still, Arcia-Diaz said families who have gotten behind on their children’s routine vaccinations can get caught up on required shots like the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis), the MMR, a vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella, and other required immunizations by scheduling a visit to their local pediatrician.
Underwood, of Naperville, and U.S. Rep. Sean Casten, a Downers Grove Democrat, are co-sponsors of legislation that would increase the $10,000 SALT cap to $15,000 for individual filers and allow people married and filing jointly to double their deduction up to $30,000. Future deduction amounts would be indexed to inflation.
When he filed for bankruptcy in 2015, however, Saleh didn’t mention any work for a Galaxy Properties. Instead, he said in the sworn paperwork that he was a sales manager at Galaxy Furniture, a discount furniture store on the 3400 block of West Montrose Avenue, where he earned about $2,600 a month.
After the resolution clears the Forest Preserve board’s finance committee, it will go to a full floor vote sometime next month before another round of votes in December that would finalize the language, Suffredin said. He said the money should be used to acquire and restore land, improve programming for the community, address the backlog of maintenance needs, support the Brookfield Zoo and Chicago Botanic Garden and, perhaps most importantly, help close the funding gap for the district’s pension shortfall.
The 18-month effort, funded by the Joyce Foundation, will focus on the state’s flagship public university, where just under 6% of students are Black, 11% are Latino and well under 1% identify as Native American or Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, under-representations of the state’s population, according to school data. The largest demographic groups are white students at 41% and Asian American students at 16%.