Florida governor visits Elmhurst – Chicago Tribune

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Elected officers gathered with residents from Near South Side communities Monday to name for a brand new South Loop highschool to be constructed at an alternate location.

The demonstrators criticized Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Housing Authority for planning to construct the college on CHA land that they are saying must be used for public housing.

“We cannot privatize and push for more sites that take away from public housing in a time when there is dire need,” Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, twenty fifth, stated.

CPS presently plans to construct the college on land leased from the CHA on the web site the place the previous Harold Ickes Homes public housing complicated as soon as stood. The faculty is about to be constructed close to State and twenty fourth streets to the east of Chinatown. The demonstrators referred to as on CPS to as a substitute construct the college on a city-owned parcel northwest of Chinatown in East Pilsen at Canal and seventeenth streets.

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DeSantis, exploring a 2024 bid for the White House, got here to west suburban Elmhurst on Monday as a part of a tour attacking Democrats for enacting “woke” insurance policies that encourage crime and weaken regulation enforcement as he recruited law enforcement officials to maneuver to the Sunshine State.

“As they are defunding police and attacking police in these other jurisdictions, the state of Florida has shown them that we got your back and we support what you’re doing,” DeSantis advised about 200 individuals in a half-hour speech promoted by the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police at a Knights of Columbus corridor.

Prison sentences that give inmates convicted at a younger age no hope of ever getting out will quickly be a factor of the previous in Illinois. In the newest effort to ease the harshest sentences handed all the way down to youthful offenders, lawmakers final month voted to abolish life sentences with out parole for many convicts below 21.

When Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the invoice into regulation on Feb. 7, Illinois additionally grew to become the twenty sixth state to ban such sentences from being imposed on anybody below 18.

Nicole Nassif didn’t care her restaurant would have solely six seats. She didn’t thoughts that workplaces within the Loop stay, like the remainder of the nation, far beneath pre-pandemic occupancy.

She felt positive Imee’s Kitchen may discover its footing as a petite, lunch-focused Mediterranean restaurant that may enchantment to workplace staff searching for a fast chew throughout their lunch break. In her first six months of enterprise, that plan appears to be working.

“It can’t be easy to trade a legend,” writes Phil Thompson. “It’s even more difficult if you walk to the negotiating table with one hand tied behind your back.”

By most indications, Patrick Kane desires a commerce and the Chicago Blackhawks need to commerce him, however there seems to be a disconnect between the events on find out how to get that completed.

The Tribune’s Louisa Chu writes that Soulé chef and proprietor Bridgette Flagg didn’t simply transfer her Creole-inspired soul meals restaurant from a small storefront in Ukrainian Village, the place diners lined up out the door for hours. She constructed a complete new customized dwelling for the enterprise, with a full bar, no much less, again in North Lawndale, the place it began with fried catfish plates on Polk Street.

“I don’t like calling myself a chef,” Flagg stated. “I’m not formally trained. Chefs have some pretty big shoes to fill.”