Chicago was a city forced to draw its bridges to protect itself from roving criminals. The destruction may have seemed more anecdotal than data-driven until now.
The losers if Springfield signs off on a fully elected CPS school board? You guessed it the children of CPS, their parents and the city’s taxpayers all imperiled by a future school board too unwieldy and too prone to CTU control to function responsibly.
Legislation in Springfield would give Chicago 50 years to complete its lead service line removal program. Given the dangers of lead in drinking water even in trace amounts, that’s an untenable timeline.
New legislation would require new and prospective data centers to sign so-called peace labor agreements with unions. It’s easy to see what the fallout would be. Investors building new data centers would shrug and say, Illinois is too expensive. Springfield, kill this bill.
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