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"Let's stop the violence before even starts by making sure we're investing in our young people and we're loving them and supporting them, at the earliest possible stages of their life, so they understand that there's a future for themselves."
Senator Durbin first introduced the Dream Act 19 years ago.
If the protests had driven an explosion in cases, experts say, the jumps would have started to become apparent within two weeks — and perhaps as early as five days. But that didn't happen in many cities with the largest protests, including New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C.
Two election judges live in the same house, but only one has gotten a paycheck – and his check has a questionable deduction.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brough almost all Cook County court cases to a dead stop for months, although many are set to resume again next week.
Starting July 1, the minimum wage in Chicago will rise to at least $13.50 per hour, while most of the rest of Illinois will see the minimum wage go up to $10.
"I'm probably 500 people away from where this can't work," said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.
"You utterly failed to lead in this crisis."
The Chicago Pride Parade that traditionally happens the last Sunday in June was canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the mayor's office, prohibiting anonymous complaints against officers has discouraged people from reporting misconduct, out of fear of retaliation.
When Trump last campaigned in the state in January, the unemployment rate was 3.5%; now, 12% of workers are jobless.
New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut on Wednesday announced a requirement of 14-day quarantines for people visiting from other states that are seeing spikes in coronavirus cases. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said he has no plans for a similar requirement in Illinois, but that could change.
By a 4-3 vote, Mayor Lori Lightfoot's hand-picked board voted down a motion to terminate a $33 million contract with the Chicago Police Department to provide more than 200 school resource officers and staff sergeants at 72 high schools.
Along with a spike in violence in Chicago this past weekend comes with a new push by members of the police union to get officers on the street to stand down – and even stay home.
"If that kind of tweet, which is clearly racist, had been put forward by a right-wing group, we would rightly be denouncing them, and I think our scorn should be no less because it was put out by the CTU," the mayor said.
