Businesses no longer required to enforce face coverings, vaccine check myjournalcourier.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from myjournalcourier.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
17,200 people in Illinois file for unemployment benefits Around 1,000 fewer Illinoisans filed for unemployment last week than the week before, but there were still more than 17,200 initial claims filed. .
Normal, IL, USA / www.cities929.com
May 19, 2021 | 1:55 PM
(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s emergency rule requiring businesses to mandate masks has been repealed and a leading retailers association says they are not being asked to check your vaccine status, but they could if they wanted.
Pritzker first issued a mask mandate on May 1, 2020. He then filed consecutive 150-day emergency rules requiring businesses to post the mask mandate on their entrances and to enforce the mandate. The latest emergency rule that was set to expire in early June was repealed Wednesday.
After the new mask guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Pritzker administration updated its guidance that fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks indoors in most instances.
Among corporate loopholes on the cutting block: private school scholarships myjournalcourier.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from myjournalcourier.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Feb 19, 2021 2:11 PM
(The Center Square) – Groups impacted by what the governor calls “corporate loopholes” are speaking out against the proposals to end the programs.
To balance his proposed budget, Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants lawmakers to modify several programs.
One initiative the governor laid out was to reset the tax credit for private school scholarships at 40%. Pritzker’s budget documents listed that as a “corporate loophole.”
“This is not a corporate loophole,” Catholic Conference of Illinois’ Zach Wichmann told WMAY. “Its allowed individuals to donate to a program, the only state program that’s serving low-income and working-class families’ kids, to allow them to choose whatever school they want, whatever school is best for them, and in the middle of this pandemic, honestly, the schools that have been in five days a week, everyday since August for in-person learning. It’s an important program that should be expa