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In climate jobs era, here’s what Inflation Reduction Act means for Illinois workers

This new climate jobs stimulus will tip the scales and help us tackle the climate crisis while beginning to reverse 40 years of wage stagnation and widening racial inequality.

Chicago Sun-Times

Invasive spotted lanternfly has swarmed across the East Coast and been seen in Indiana. Could it be coming here next?

The beautiful inch-long bug sucks the sap out of grapes, hops and other fruits.

Chicago Sun-Times

Snap's Illinois privacy lawsuit settlement could net residents some cash

The lawsuit alleges that Snapchat's filters violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.

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Complete week-by-week 2022 Big Ten football schedule

The complete week-by-week Big Ten football schedule to get you ready for the start of the 2022 college football season. Which game are you looking forward to the most? #B1G

USA Today Sports Media Group

Sizing up the coho this year on southern Lake Michigan and considering some history

Coho salmon in southern Lake Michigan appear to be noticeably large this year. That includes one caught across the Wisconsin line off Kenosha that would have tied the Illinois record, all of which leads to some dabbling in history.

Chicago Sun-Times

2nd ex-prison guard convicted in inmate beating death

A former Illinois prison guard could face life in prison after a jury found him guilty of violating the civil rights of a 65-year-old inmate who died after correctional officers beat him in a lockup more than four years ago

The Independent UK

Snapchat parent reaches $35 million biometric privacy class-action settlement in Illinois

Illinois residents who use Snapchat may be eligible for payouts of between $58 and $117 in a class-action privacy settlement reached this month by the app’s parent company, Snap Inc.

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Top Illinois Dems should return campaign cash from pharma companies implicated in opioid crisis

If they seriously need the money, they need to give up their job representing their constituents because it would seem like they are only in it for the money.

Chicago Sun-Times

Putting price on carbon emissions is the best way to reduce greenhouse gases

The newly passes first comprehensive climate legislation in our nation’s history is a bold step. Now take the next one.

Chicago Sun-Times

A converted RV offers a new hope for fighting opioid deaths in the city’s hardest-hit areas

The mobile center — one of just 2 approved for operation in Illinois — offers a new treatment that could transform narcotics care for users on the West Side.

Chicago Sun-Times

High school football preview: The top 10 running backs

A four-star prospect and a pair of teammates are among the area’s top running backs.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pharma funds Illinois pols, ‘Sister Jean’ turns 103, Honest Chicagoans talk Air and Water Show and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, other pols keep taking money from pharma companies implicated in opioid crisis

The Oak Park Democrat continues to accept campaign money from Johnson & Johnson, 1 of 4 companies paying $26 billion to settle suits accusing them of fueling the crisis. He’s not the only Illinois official doing so.

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS still wants mandatory COVID-19 shots for kids but can’t require them unless state OKs that

Illinois requires K-12 students to provide proof of vaccination against a dozen diseases but not the coronavirus.

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Illinois, behold: Your 700-pound state fair butter cow is here

The Illinois State Fair’s butter cow is back in all its creamy glory.

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Illinois gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey resumes calling Chicago a ‘hellhole’ at state fair’s GOP day

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Darren Bailey, who had tempered his criticism of Chicago since winning the Republican nomination for governor, returned to calling the state’s largest city a crime-ridden “hellhole” Thursday in playing to a downstate crowd during the GOP’s annual day at the Illinois State Fair.

Chicago Sun-Times

Republican Darren Bailey’s state fair strategy shifts focus from Trump, social issues to working families

Bailey — who is actually a millionaire from his family business — routinely portrays himself as the everyman on the campaign trail. “I may be a little bit rough around the edges,” he told the Illinois State Fair crowd Thursday. “But I will work for you, because I’m just like…

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois is failing to provide adequate health care for prisoners

The state committed itself to change by entering into a consent decree in the Lippert vs. Jeffreys class action lawsuit on prison medical care in 2018, but an acceptable plan to provide care has never been submitted to the court.

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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker calls on the ‘coalition of the sane’ to defeat ‘the lunatic fringe’ as Democrats rally at state fair

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Democrats looked to both the past and the future as rallying points on their day at the Illinois State Fair on Wednesday, castigating former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s one-term stewardship of the state and warning that the party’s candidate for governor in November, Darren Bailey, would…

Chicago Sun-Times

Southern abortion rights advocates arrive in Chicago for ‘Black August Freedom Rides’

Activists from Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi traveled to Chicago to strengthen ties with local organizations as abortion bans go into effect in the South.

Chicago Sun-Times

Democrats at Illinois State Fair hit GOP ‘lunatic fringe,’ downplay internal party strife

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, standing alongside new Democratic Party of Illinois Chair Lisa Hernandez and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, downplayed the intraparty tension, especially around Sen. Dick Durbin, who wanted Rep. Robin Kelly to remain in the top party post.

Chicago Sun-Times

New program aims to provide seniors with home-based alternative to nursing facility care

“Here in Illinois, we recognize that our elders thrive when they remain in our communities as they age,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said. “The PACE program is an innovative model that delivers a much-needed alternative to traditional nursing facility care.”

The Independent UK

Immigration advocates sue LexisNexis over personal data

Immigration advocates are accusing the data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions of violating Illinois law by collecting and combining extensive personal information and selling it to third parties including federal immigration authorities

Benzinga

Ascend Wellness Revenue Increases Sequentially Capitalizing On Adult Use Cannabis Sales In New Jersey

Ascend Wellness Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: AAWH) (CSE: AAWH.U) released its financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2022, revealing gross revenue increased 16.2% quarter-over-quarter and increased 20.7% year-over-year, to $117.7 million.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Asking other states to help Missouri rape victims should highlight GOP’s cruelty here

It has come to this: Missouri Democrats recently reached out to Illinois and Kansas officials, asking them to secure Medicaid funding for low-income Missouri rape victims who have to travel out of state for abortion services due to Missouri’s extreme new abortion ban. It’s a chilling reminder that Missouri has…

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