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Early voting in Chicago for the March 19 primary election will resume at 9 a.m. Wednesday following a temporary pause to remove a judicial candidate’s name from ballots to comply with a court order, election officials said in a statement Monday.
Democratic mail-in ballots have not been mailed and will be sent out “as soon as possible” after being reprinted, the Chicago Board of Elections said Monday.
Republican, Libertarian and nonpartisan mail-in ballots filled out and mailed to the elections board were not affected by the pause, Chicago Board of Elections spokesman Max Bever told the Tribune on Saturday.
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker confronts migrant crisis, projected shortfall as he prepares for his sixth budget address
Funding challenges from the migrant crisis and immigrant health care to boosting early childhood education butt up against a projected shortfall of almost $900 million in the coming fiscal year as Gov. J.B. Pritzker prepares to give his sixth budget address on Wednesday.
The Democratic governor’s scheduled speech before the Illinois General Assembly follows his pledge last week to allocate $182 million in the next budget year for shelter and other services for asylum-seekers in the Chicago area. The proposed investment came just a few months after the Pritzker administration announced it was taking $160 million from the current budget to address the ongoing crisis.
Rooftop solar skyrocketed in Illinois in the past five years, report shows
Small-scale solar — the majority of which is installed on roofs — produced 10 times as much electricity nationwide in 2022 as it did 10 years earlier, enough to power 5.7 million typical American homes, according to a report from the nonprofits Environment America Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group.
And while the Midwest lagged behind other regions, Illinois, which passed a major climate bill in 2021, produced 1,300 gigawatt-hours of electricity from small-scale solar in 2022, or enough to power 116,300 homes.
Chicago region saw record-breaking warehouse development in 2023
Huge warehouses sprouted up across the Chicago metro area at a record-setting pace in 2023, blowing past records set the previous two years. And with retailers and other companies still hungry for space to store and distribute their products, these new buildings will likely lease up quickly.
Ford Hangar at Lansing Municipal Airport on Oct. 26, 2018.(Ted Slowik/Daily Southtown)
Officials hope improvements will bring rentals of Lansing Airport’s Ford Hangar
Village officials want the Ford Hangar become an event space, said Ken Reynolds, director of venue operations, and that will require roof renovation, climate control and bathrooms.
Since 1985, the Ford Hangar has been on the National Register of Historic Places, which means all renovations have to be carefully planned out and approved by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Reynolds said.
Historic Florida Tropical House in Beverly Shores listed for $2.5M with unusual financing agreement
The historic Florida Tropical House on Lake Michigan in Beverly Shores, Indiana, which was moved to its current location after Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress World’s Fair, has come on the market for $2.5 million in cash with an unusual financing arrangement.
Chicago Bears roster breakdown: How the defensive players fared in 2023 and their contract statuses for 2024
General manager Ryan Poles has multiple critical roster decisions to make in the months ahead as he tries to build the Chicago Bears into a championship-contending team.
He already made two Thursday — releasing veteran offensive lineman Cody Whitehair and safety Eddie Jackson. Other big moves could be around the corner.
Column: Chicago Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts has a new ‘guy’ and believes Craig Counsell will be the one
On the final day of the 2023 season, after the Chicago Cubs collapsed to blow a National League wild-card spot, Chairman Tom Ricketts told reporters in Milwaukee that manager David Ross was still “our guy.”
A month later, Ross was fired and Brewers manager Craig Counsell was now “our guy,” signed for a record $40 million over five years, writes Paul Sullivan.
Addressing the media Monday at the Cubs spring training complex for the first time since Ross’s dismissal, Ricketts reiterated he “expected to go forward” with Ross in 2024.
- 4 things Tom Ricketts addressed at Cubs camp, including the payroll, Cody Bellinger and an All-Star Game at Wrigley Field
- Photos: Inside Cubs spring training camp
As Patty Hearst turns 70, new book recalls her kidnapping and that famous bank robbery
Patty Hearst turns 70 on Tuesday, writes Rick Kogan.
That might not mean a great deal to some of you. But to a generation very much alive, that name should bring back some vivid memories, some images of a rifle-toting young woman who was at the center of one of the most colorful, extensively reported crimes of the last or any century.
