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Without city help, Pritzker and Preckwinkle to ask for $250 million more to help fund migrant crisisGov. J.B. Pritzker and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s funding agreement is noticeably missing a key partner: the city of Chicago. And it comes after Pritzker, Preckwinkle and Mayor Brandon Johnson met in January and this month to discuss how to further fund the crisis.
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Migrants who already struggle to talk about their trauma find a persistent shortage of mental health workers. Support groups are trying to fill the void.
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Democrats meet in Chicago in August. Republicans gather in Milwaukee in July, with both events offering thousands of volunteer opportunities.
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The decision follows the city of Chicago’s release of an environmental report Friday that showed the location at 38th and California required metals and chemicals cleanup.
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Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration calls the need for additional funds a “100% emergency response” as the weather turns cold.
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The former president will be interviewed by the hosts of “Pod Save America” during the first-of-its-kind reunion, which is expected to draw thousands of Obamaworld veterans.
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Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee plan to blame violent crime in Chicago on Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx at a Tuesday forum at the city’s Fraternal Order of Police office.
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Research shows midwives help improve outcomes for both parent and child. But hospitals across the Chicago area are not investing in midwife programs.
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Rivian, the electric automaker building its EVs in Normal, has opened a showroom in downtown Chicago, the fifth of such “Spaces” the company is aiming to launch.
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A year since the first buses of migrants arrived in Chicago, the journey to asylum is just beginningMore than 13,000 immigrants have arrived since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started sending them away on buses — so far 197 of them coming to the Chicago area.