Gov. JB Pritzker has extended an executive order suspending the legal requirement for the state to transfer mentally ill jail inmates into psychiatric care within 20 days.

The latest order suspended the statutory requirement through at least July 24.

An official in the Cook County Assessor’s Office has been charged with taking personal favors in exchange for helping people get lower tax bills, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

The official, Lavdim Memisovski, is accused of accepting home improvements, jewelry and sports tickets.

The Chicago Transit Authority saw a more than 5,000% increase in federal money for operating funds in 2020, an increase that helped CTA maintain services throughout COVID-19. The bailout by the federal government meant that operating expenses remained flat despite a 60% drop in passenger miles, largely due to the pandemic.

In 2019, federal assistance was $9.1 million and made up 0.6% of CTA’s operating expenses, according to the Federal Transit Administration. That number jumped to $488.1 million in 2020 and 31.8% of operating funds.

Former Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson has been sentenced to four months in federal prison for cheating on his taxes and lying to regulators in the federal criminal case that cost him his seat on the City Council earlier this year.

U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama handed down the sentence during a hearing Wednesday at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago’s Loop. Thompson is the grandson of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley and a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley.