Illinois Lawmakers To Return To Springfield Next Week To Debate Budget, Legislation To Address COVID-19 Crisis
Both the Illinois House and Illinois Senate will hold session from May 20 through May 22.
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Both the Illinois House and Illinois Senate will hold session from May 20 through May 22.
The waiver would means property owners would have until Oct. 1 to pay without facing a 1.5% interest penalty. Bills are normally due by Aug. 3.
As she approaches the anniversary of her first year in office, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot outlined the city's work in handling the COVID-19 crisis and what the public could look forward to with changes from the way we shop to the way we work.
Police have said Dreasjon "Sean" Reed, 21, and McHale Rose, 19, both shot at officers before they were killed in separate incidents just hours apart.
State law requires the attorney general to be "duly licensed to practice law in Indiana," but it doesn't specify whether the person can continue serving under a temporary suspension.
The employee had been in close contact with Pritzker and other staff members, who have all tested negative for the virus.
Chicago workers would be protected from being fired or demoted for adhering to public health orders during the COVID-19 pandemic, under an ordinance advanced by the City Council Committee on Workforce Development on Monday.
"The Supreme Court is not saying they're not going to rule on this ever, they're just saying that they don't want to skip over the Appellate Court is my understanding," Pritzker said.
As of Monday afternoon, Illinois has 79,0007 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 3,459 deaths.
Between emergency housing, personal protective equipment, and various other costs, the City of Chicago has now spent at least $10 million in its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Two sites will open this week Salcedo Elementary School in Little Village and Dr. Jorge Prieto Math and Science Academy in the Belmont Craigen neighborhood. A site where the White Sox play, Guaranteed Rate Field, will be for first responsers.
The unanimous court decision said that the state's attorney disciplinary commission "proved by clear and convincing evidence that (Hill) committed the criminal act of battery."
Election officials and state political leaders are encouraging mail-in voting as a way to protect poll workers and voters from possible COVID-19 exposure even as plans still call for opening in-person voting sites on primary day.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Sunday pushed back against critics of his plans to reopen Illinois.
"That's why, I, by the way, am going to be spending as much time as necessary and campaigning as hard as I can for Joe Biden," Obama said.
