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Illinois Quick Hits: Caterpillar to invest $1 billion in North Carolina
(The Center Square) – Caterpillar Inc. has announced plans to invest about $1 billion in North Carolina to expand manufacturing…
Chicago passes rule requiring more votes for new debt
(The Center Square) – A new measure requiring larger support from the Chicago City Council to pass measures related to…
Illinois Quick Hits: CPS game officials, unpaid for weeks, decline work
(The Center Square) – Several Chicago high school football games may not be played this weekend because Chicago Public Schools…
Illinois GOP aims to support entire ballot, stray from national party
(The Center Square) – With five weeks remaining until election day, spending has ramped up in races across Illinois on…
Officials: Proposed gas rate hike ‘unfair’
(The Center Square) – A Chicago-area utility company wants a hike for ratepayers that hinges on approval by the state,…
Illinois Quick Hits: Two hospitalized after Bolingbrook plane crash
(The Center Square) – Two people were hospitalized in stable condition after a small plane crashed at a Bolingbrook park…
Johnson open to budget hard lines, rules out property tax increase
(The Center Square) – In an opening move toward budget negotiations in Chicago, a coalition of aldermen have sent a…
Chicago council approves parking meter sale
(The Center Square) – The Chicago City Council has approved a modified agreement allowing the sale of the city’s parking…
Illinois Quick Hits: Pesticide manufacturer settles with FTC, states
(The Center Square) – The Federal Trade Commission, Illinois and 11 other states have reached a $35 million settlement with…
Cook County OK to fire hospital pharmacist for refusing Covid vaccine
(Legal Newsline) — A pharmacist who was fired by Cook County after the county forced her to choose between keeping…
Wirepoints: ‘Gush’ of taxpayer money fueled credit upgrades
(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker says credit rating upgrades have saved Illinois taxpayers millions of dollars, but Wirepoints…
Labor backs Amtrak project as community concern climbs
(The Center Square) – Labor leaders in Chicago are backing plans to create a new Amtrak maintenance facility on the…