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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The Chicago City Council has approved a modified agreement allowing the sale of the city’s parking meter system between private entities.
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(The Center Square) – The Federal Trade Commission, Illinois and 11 other states have reached a $35 million settlement with pesticide manufacturer Corteva.
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(Legal Newsline) — A pharmacist who was fired by Cook County after the county forced her to choose between keeping her job or violating her stated religious beliefs that she said forbade her from receiving the Covid vaccine, can't sue the county over her firing, because the county's needs outweighed her religious rights, a federal appeals panel ruled.
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(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker says credit rating upgrades have saved Illinois taxpayers millions of dollars, but Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon says the upgrades were fueled by tax hikes that cost taxpayers billions more.
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(The Center Square) – Labor leaders in Chicago are backing plans to create a new Amtrak maintenance facility on the city’s South Side, despite controversy and local uproar over the project.
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(The Center Square) – The Illinois Department of Revenue is inviting feedback on proposed rules for the state’s digital assets tax that is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1.
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(The Center Square) – A Chicago alderwoman says she will not give up the fight for workplace heat protection mandates on employers, despite opposition from Illinois manufacturers who say the measure would make it more difficult to do business in the city.
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(The Center Square) – The largest steel plant in U.S. history is coming to Iowa, the White House said Monday.
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(The Center Square) – A former mayor and elected officials from Ford Heights are among 11 people charged in connection with a scheme to illegally use municipal funds on personal vacations at casinos.
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(The Center Square) – After President Donald Trump said inflation is going down following his visit to Illinois over the weekend, Democrats in the state expressed their disagreement.
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