Indiana Governor Challengers Name Education Department Picks
The switch to a governor-appointed state education secretary was originally approved by Indiana's General Assembly, with a planned start date of 2025.
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The switch to a governor-appointed state education secretary was originally approved by Indiana's General Assembly, with a planned start date of 2025.
U.S. Senate candidate Willie Wilson reported Wednesday night that he has tested negative for COVID-19 after earlier testing positive and quarantining for 14 days.
Facing an unprecedented $1.2 billion shortfall for next year, Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday proposed a $94 million property tax hike, a 3 cents per gallon increase in the city's gas tax, hundreds of layoffs, and eliminating nearly 2,000 vacant positions.
In Mayor Lori Lightfoot's budget proposal calls for the Chicago Police Department to cut a big chunk of its own budget.
With no financial help on the horizon from Congress or the state, the mayor said the city must rely on making "shared sacrifices" to address the economic crisis created by the pandemic.
Fifty-one years after it happened, the Trial of the Chicago Seven is top of mind in Chicago and around the country thanks to an eponymous Netflix movie. Topanga Bird, formerly known as Marti Ahern, was there for the real thing.
The record number of mail-in ballots for the 2020 election has also meant record postal costs.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot was on the hot seat Monday about what she did and did not know about the relationship between former Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson and Chicago Police Officer Cynthia Donald – who is now suing Johnson for sexual assault.
Suburban voters whose commute takes them thru union station can now vote before or after they get off the train.
The online tracking will show them still there until election judges triple check signatures to verify the ballots.
The feds had no comment for us about a court order that suddenly ended the Census last week. But Chicago leaders did.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday that President Donald Trump and his allies in Illinois are partly to blame for the coronavirus spike in the state.
While stopping short of accusing any officers of actively covering up for former Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson after he was found asleep at the wheel of his vehicle one year ago, the city's inspector general found several officers failed to follow department policy in their handling of the incident.
Bryce Tuttle has a learning disability that affects his handwriting, and now his ballot.
Officer Cynthia Donald claims Johnson subjected her to "unwanted and uninvited sexual advances, abuse, harassment, and a hostile work environment" for more than three years.
