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The Center Square: Study: Illinois lost $334 million in tax revenue from cigarettes smuggled into state
A report reveals the correlation between rising cigarette taxes and smuggling from other states.
The report from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Tax Foundation shows excessive tax rates on cigarettes induce substantial illicit market movement of tobacco products into high-tax states from low-tax states.
Chicago Tribune: Brandon Johnson will be Chicago’s next mayor. He will face a slew of challenges, from crime to schools to city finances.
Brandon Johnson — the first Chicagoan to unseat an incumbent mayor in 40 years — will inherit a towering to-do list when he assumes leadership of a city plagued by dissatisfaction with its government as well as a decades-in-the-making crisis of gun violence and looming fiscal cliffs.
But come May, the 47-year-old Cook County commissioner will bring with him an equally voluminous stack of proposals, one he has asserted rejects the “politics of old” that landed the nation’s third-largest city in its current plight and instead “invests in people.” To underscore the potential of his ambitions, Johnson often repeated the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. following his 1960s stay in Chicago.
Chicago Sun-Times: What can we expect from Brandon Johnson — Chicago’s next mayor
Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner and Chicago Teachers Union organizer, will be the next mayor of Chicago. Johnson narrowly defeated opponent Paul Vallas in a run-off election on Tuesday.
Daily Herald: Teamsters say local bosses used positions to 'enrich themselves'
Citing concerns about thousands in unauthorized bonuses and lavish spending by executives at a suburban union local, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters ousted its leaders and appointed an emergency trustee to manage operations Tuesday.
Audits of Burr Ridge-based Teamsters Local 731, which serves about 6,000 workers, showed “a deeply troubling pattern of repeat violations” and “significant financial wrongdoing,” IBT General President Sean M. O’Brien said in a statement.
WGN: Who was elected to the Chicago City Council?
Chicago residents voted for their new Alderperson’s Tuesday night.
Following the results of the Feb. 28 elections, 14 wards were still looking for their next City Council representative during the April 4 runoff election.
WCIA: EIU faculty, staff vote to strike
EIU faculty and staff voted Tuesday afternoon to strike. EIU University Professionals of Illinois (UPI) President Jennifer Stringfellow confirmed that EIU faculty and staff plan to start the strike Thursday morning.
Stringfellow said UPI voted to strike because they are uncertain about the administration and clarity on bargaining. She said the last bargaining meeting happened on Monday with Eastern’s President and other officials.
Capitol News: ‘Because Mike Madigan came to us’: Defendant invoked ex-speaker in defense of lobbying contracts
Former Commonwealth Edison executive Fidel Marquez had been a government informant for less than a month when he had a meeting with longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in mid-February 2019.
The meeting was routine; Marquez, another executive and ComEd’s relatively new CEO met with Madigan at the beginning of the General Assembly’s new session in Springfield, as was the utility’s custom.
State Journal-Register: Springfield election results
Misty Busher was elected mayor of the state capital with nearly 52% support of voters. Find out which other candidates won their election in Springfield.