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Nov 26, 2024 | 
capfax.blogspot.com | Isabel Miller
* Tribune…Chicago Ald. Daniel Solis had been secretly cooperating with the FBI for more than a year when he received an unexpected voicemail that surely caught the attention of agents listening in from the wire room. “Danny, it’s Mike Madigan,” said the unmistakable voice on the June 2017 message. “Would you call?” […]“I think they understand they’ve got some issues that they still have to deal with me in terms of zoning,” Solis on the June 23, 2017, call, which was played in court.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
capfax.blogspot.com | Isabel Miller
* First, some background from Forbes…AI's primary role in healthcare has focused on back-office automation and infrastructure improvements. This includes streamlining intake forms, generating meeting notes, and providing comprehensive summarization services.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
capfax.blogspot.com | Isabel Miller
* ICYMI: ‘Busiest Thanksgiving ever' expected at airports across the country this week, including Chicago. NBC Chicago... - According to TSA, more than 18.3 million people expected to move through airports across the country beginning Tuesday.- In Chicago alone, 1.8 million people are expected to pass through Midway and O'Hare International Airports between Tuesday, Nov. 26 and Monday, Dec. 2, the Chicago Department of Aviation said.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
capfax.blogspot.com | Isabel Miller
* What’s going on? Keep it Illinois-centric please…
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
capfax.blogspot.com | Isabel Miller
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 Selected press releases (Live updates)
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
capfax.blogspot.com | Isabel Miller
* NPR Illinois…A group of five statewide education organizations released a blueprint for the future of Illinois education called Vision 2030. The broad plan revolves around three pillars: future-focused learning, shared accountability, and predictable funding. Gary Tipsord with the state’s regional superintendent group says the school code has more than doubled since 2000. But with more responsibilities, schools need flexibility to keep pace with a rapidly changing world.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
capfax.blogspot.com | Isabel Miller
* Tribune…Jurors in the Michael Madigan corruption trial on Monday got their first look at a secretly recorded video of the then-powerful House speaker soliciting business for his law firm from the developer of a Chinatown hotel project. “We’re not looking for a quick killing here,” Madigan said near the end of the August 2014 meeting, which was recorded on a hidden camera by developer See Wong, who was cooperating with the FBI.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
capfax.blogspot.com | Isabel Miller
* In May, I asked the governor if he’d be open to a tax on services in Illinois. Rich wrote about it in his newspaper column... As you may know, the Chicago area’s mass transit agencies are facing a $730 million “fiscal cliff” in 2026. The federal government’s COVID-era subsidies will expire that year. While ridership has declined as service worsens, operating costs have increased and average fare prices have fallen.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
capfax.blogspot.com | Isabel Miller
* ProPublica…In the strongest rebuke yet of Illinois school districts that ask police to ticket misbehaving students, the state attorney general has declared that the practice — still being used across the state — is illegal and should stop. […]But the attorney general’s office did not alert other districts of its findings, which came in July, and did not issue guidance that the common practice violates the law.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
capfax.blogspot.com | Isabel Miller
* My weekly syndicated newspaper column…In the wake of Donald Trump’s national victory and his losing margin dropping to 11 points in Illinois from 17 in two prior races, state legislative Democrats here have different views on how their party should proceed. Sen. Julie Morrison, D-Lake Forest, told my associate Isabel Miller last week that Illinois Democrats have “forgotten about the people in the middle.” “I think we have done a lot of really good, progressive things,” Morrison said.
