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WBEZ: Illinois is getting $18 billion from the feds for infrastructure. Plans for spending it are trickling out.
Getting rid of potholes can be good politics.
Next year will be a true test of that old axiom here in Illinois.
Daily Herald: Will Rittenhouse verdict affect open carry laws in Illinois?
Illinois is one of just three states that flatly ban gun owners from openly carrying their weapons, and advocates on both sides of the gun debate don’t expect Friday’s not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case to change that.
“To get open carry passed here, I’ll be eating tapioca pudding in a nursing home before that happens,” said John Boch, executive director of the Champaign-based Guns Save Life firearms ownership advocacy group. “We see it as futile to try and get anything passed legislatively, so we’ve taken our fight to the courts.”
News-Gazette: Illinois' circuitous, reluctant embrace of honest government
If there was ever an investigation destined to go nowhere, it was the Illinois State Board of Elections’ faux inquiry into former state Rep. Frank Mautino and his missing $500,000.
On what was it spent? To whom was it paid? Why were campaign spending rules violated?
Chicago Tribune: District 65 superintendent cancels 2 days of school in Evanston, Skokie citing staffing shortages, says switch ‘may put working families in a bind’
Some students in Evanston and Skokie may be extra thankful this Thanksgiving after District 65 announced the cancellation of school Monday and Tuesday — the two days directly preceding the district’s planned fall break — effectively giving students in pre-K through eighth grade a full week off school.
But adults may feel differently about the situation. Teachers are reportedly burned out and need the time off to reduce stress, while the sudden switch could cause caregivers additional anxiety.
WBBM: WalletHub report: Chicagoans can afford to spend $759 on holiday gifts while Napervillians can spend $2,941
A personal finance website has already figured it out: how much shoppers in Chicago should spend on gifts and other holiday expenses this year.
WalletHub just released its 2021 Holiday Budgets by City report and determined that the average Chicagoan can afford to spend $759 this holiday season.