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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was left out of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s recent meeting with Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state lawmakers, but the mayor said his administration will remain involved with discussions over a potential stadium project for the Bears.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago joined a coalition of 26 states, counties, and cities in a lawsuit against the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s final rule that changed corporate average fuel economy standards for new passenger cars and light trucks.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — Contrary to the fears of many, the rapid and growing adoption and deployment of technology, and particularly AI, by U.S. small businesses is not killing businesses and costing jobs, but rather fueling a boom in hiring and growth, a new report says.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Legislation in the Illinois House is calling for $4 million in state taxpayer funds to help analyze cartridge casings recovered at crime scenes and from guns used in crimes.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — All mortgage liens in Illinois last 20 years, meaning some can even survive a decade after the lienholders run out of time to sue to collect outstanding debts, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Chicago officials have announced that the city will pay $260.8 million to resolve 16 misconduct lawsuits against former Chicago Police Department Detective Reynaldo Guevara.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he and leading members of the General Assembly participated in a productive meeting with National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Republicans in the Illinois statehouse are pushing back on multiple tax and fee initiatives passed this spring, saying they are “novel” and will make life more costly for everyday Illinois taxpayers.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director James Jennings has announced a second round of funding for projects to address emerging contaminants in drinking and/or source water.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — A group of potentially thousands of truck drivers can move ahead with a class action lawsuit accusing railroad operator Union Pacific of scanning their fingerprints, allegedly in violation of Illinois' stringent biometrics privacy law, after a federal appeals panel agreed Union Pacific's contracts with Metra and other taxpayer-funded units of Illinois government don't protect it from a potentially big payout.
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