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October 2, 2026 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email The Court will also return to the Second Amendment in consolidated challenges to bans on AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles, Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins.

October 2, 2026 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email "The smaller projected deficit is a positive development, but it does not change the fundamental financial challenge facing Chicago.

October 2, 2026 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email "We scored all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia on five major education categories (gender and sexuality, “diversity, equity, and inclusion”, parental rights, teacher policies, and foreign influence), and ranked them based on their performance.

October 2, 2026 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email "The report details how Democrat-controlled Illinois's radical statewide sanctuary policies ensure criminal aliens are free to reoffend, even after committing brutal crimes against Americans.

October 2, 2026 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email The Obama museum's celebration of the power of ordinary people may ring hollow, given the high-profile donors required to fund its $850 million budget. It's difficult to sustain the cognitive dissonance of seeing an Occupy Wall Streetdisplay funded in part by Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, or stomach an exhibit about labor organizing after having wandered past a sign thanking Jeff Bezos.

October 2, 2026 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Union Pacific and other railroad operators have been among the largest employers targeted by such class actions under BIPA in state and federal courts in Illinois. The potential financial stakes are quite high in the actions.

October 2, 2026 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email A divided Chicago Board of Education narrowly passed a budget in late July that required the district to reverse hundreds of school-based layoffs, relying on additional state funding that has not yet come. CPS has rehired 350 people so far under the complex budget mandate, or about one-third of the school-based staffers eligible to have their layoffs reversed.

October 2, 2026 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Nearly three years after Chicago struggled to shelter thousands of migrants arriving from the southern border, Mayor Brandon Johnson is pointing to an unexpected outcome of that crisis: money recovered through enforcement actions against bus companies is being redirected to help qualifying homeowners in Englewood, South Shore and the Lower West Side avoid losing their homes over delinquent property taxes.

October 2, 2026 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Democratic state attorneys general from states including California, New York and Illinois, have lined up to urge the court to not pull the plug on the Boulder case, saying to do so could also strip them of the flexibility to use their state courts to target the same companies from that same industry, and potentially a long list of others, for potentially massive paydays.

October 2, 2026 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Chicago's "leverage came from an unlikely place, one of the worst privatization deals in history: the 2008 sale of Chicago’s parking meters to private equity. ...