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Illinois Rental Payment Program Offers Up to $25K for Tenants Struggling to Pay Rent The Illinois Rental Payment Program opens Monday, with thousands of dollars available to Illinois residents who are struggling to pay rent due to the coronavirus pandemic. Applications for the ILRPP will be accepted beginning Monday. Tenants and landlords could be eligible for up to 15 months of assistance in grant form to cover the past due rent from the last 12 months as well as future rental assistance for t...

Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic across Illinois today.

Illinois Coronavirus Updates: Bridge Phase Begins, Pritzker to Update Mask Order © Getty Images NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 13: A person wearing a mask walks past posters for Chicago and Moulin Rouge in Times Square on October 13, 2020 in New York City. The pandemic has caused long-term repercussions throughout the tourism and entertainment industries, causing short-term and permanent closures of historic and iconic venues while keeping the doors of Broadway suspended until June of 2021 co...

Attorney general roy austin explained the problem this way. >> we do not have the slightest idea how many hate crimes there are in america and we have never known. the numbers currently kept by the fbi are largely useless. >> the fbi agrees that the data is not at all accurate because it says it continually faces the issue of underreporting at the victim and law enforcement levels, and faces the problem of law enforcement training on classifying hate crime incidents. the latter is what a new bil...

>> juan: i think thats a really important point. >> dana: thank you. >> greg: its an okay point. >> juan: i wanted to raise the point with you. what happens is you get a situation where mcconnell is blocking a vote on the house package to reopen the governmen government. >> dana: because the president wont sign it. >> greg: that is a great point. >> dana: thank you. >> juan: the president on the white house saying they are going to bring back half of the irs agents. hes deciding which part of th...

Workers. heres where the rubber hits the road. amazon said it will invest $5 billion in the new facility in return negotiated $2.8 billion in incentives from new york, virginia and tennessee. heres the state-by-state breakdown of what theyre getting -- $1.85 billion from new york, virginia gave $819 million, nashville $102 million in incentives. this leaves many people wondering about the tech giants decision for this contest-like approach, pitting 238 cities against one another in a search that...

Schools and further how exactly is a program like this going to be funded. no clarity on those issues there yet. i should tell you jim that president right now is hosting governors from all across the nation at a governors ball here at the white house. tomorrow there is going to be a discussion between the governors and president school security certainly will be one of the topics that is brought up, jim. >> whenever the governors coming to d.c. we understand that even the republican governor of...

Jobs where there is extremely high unemployment. done with extreme goodwill, and this is an attempt to simply sabotage it. other states and localities offering incentives that they beg employers to come in. here is an employer who does due diligence, offers community support, and is essentially being driven out by reactionary liberals on this city council. >> bret: yes or no, wal-mart comes into d.c.? >> the mayor will probably issue a veto. >> not under the current rules because that would be a...

good morning, everyone. im in today for carol costello. we begin this morning with disturbing new attacks on american forces in afghanistan and the chilling effect they could have on brings the troops home. the latest ambush just hours ago. a man wearing an afghan military uniform shoots to death three americans in the volatile helmand province. according to reuters, the americans were killed by an afghan police commander and several of his officers. the afghan leader had invited the a...

kicking that off early this morning, as well. two critical states towards his re-election as well. lets tick there through again, shall we? ohio, 20 electoral votes. thats a lot. barack obama carried ohio back in 08, roughly 52% of the vote back then. and he did even better in pennsylvania, ticked up by two there. he carried pennsylvania with 54% of the vote and pennsylvania another swing state with 21 electoral votes. cnns dan lothian with us now from sandusky, ohio. you are off the b...