Chicago, IL
Bally’s casino reportedly Chicago’s frontrunner, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot pushes back
Lightfoot stated the committee tasked with evaluating all three on line casino bids has not but accomplished its work.
The almost $2 billion proposed venture positioned at Chicago and Halsted is the frontrunner for the town’s on line casino in line with stories from the Chicago Solar-Occasions, Chicago Tribune and Crain’s. All cite sources saying an announcement might come quickly.
Aldermen on particular committee increase considerations about Bally’s, Rivers, Onerous Rock on line casino finalists
However Lightfoot pushed again on these sources.
“The reporting as we speak prematurely of even the analysis committee assembly and making a suggestion to me, that is simply not correct,” she stated Tuesday.
The committee is led by Alderman Tom Tunney, and is tasked with vetting all three proposals for the Bally’s Tribune web site, Rivers 78 within the South Loop, and a Onerous Rock On line casino that might be close to Soldier Discipline.
READ MORE | Chicago on line casino bids: 3 finalists introduced by Mayor Lightfoot’s workplace
The committee has solely met as soon as.
“If it finally ends up being Bally’s, and it finally ends up as the results of a corrupt, secretive course of, I believe it is honest to say the residents of the north aspect will really feel betrayed by this mayor,” stated 2nd Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins.
“We have tried to be as clear as we presumably may very well be with various rounds of engagement,” Lightfoot stated.
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Throughout the road from the proposed Bally’s web site is a park with a playground that’s in style with households. Many neighbors are upset on the concept a on line casino might quickly be there.
“It is a very residential neighborhood, and you place a on line casino in it, and hastily you are going to get all of the visitors and all of the noise,” stated Jeff Positive, River North resident.
“It is a household neighborhood. We have raised each of our children right here on this neighborhood, and that is our park, and that is our group,” stated Reema Patel, River North resident.
After a alternative is made that bid should nonetheless be authorized by the town council. And with all three proposals going through aldermanic opposition, that may very well be a contentious battle.
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FILE photograph: View of the Chicago Hearth Division, the third largest municipal hearth division in america of America, within the Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2014.
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago hearth officers mentioned two ladies have been discovered lifeless in an Englewood house after a home hearth.
The fireplace broke out Tuesday night at a home within the 7200-block of South Wolcott, Chicago hearth officers mentioned.
The fireplace was struck out at about 9:10 p.m., CFD mentioned.
After the fireplace was out, firefighters discovered two grownup feminine victims lifeless within the wreckage.
It was not instantly clear if the ladies died within the hearth or earlier than the fireplace. No additional particulars have been launched.
The Chicago Hearth Division has not but commented on any potential causes for the fireplace or mentioned in the event that they consider it was suspicious.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (WLS) — Three ladies and their households had been good strangers up till the second tragedy introduced them collectively within the aftermath of Highland Park’s July 4th parade.
As Thanksgiving approaches, they’re united in goal and in gratitude for probably the most primary of all issues: life.
“I believed I used to be going to die,” Highland Park capturing survivor Liz Turnipseed mentioned. “That I used to be going to put there and I used to be going to bleed out and I used to be going to die.”
WATCH | Highland Park capturing survivor tells her story
“I used to be on the parade with my three grownup kids, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old grand child,” mentioned Debra Baum, with the Highland Park Gun Violence Mission. “Our complete household may have been worn out.”
“July third I had 70 folks at my home and the following day our life bought flipped the other way up,” capturing survivor Lindsay Hartman mentioned. “So I simply know for me, I am attempting to take pleasure in it and never spend an excessive amount of time previously.”
SEE ALSO | Highland Park parade capturing short-term memorial opens subsequent to metropolis corridor
For Lindsay, not spending an excessive amount of time previously means internet hosting Thanksgiving for 30. Liz, who was one of many almost 50 folks injured that day, nonetheless wants a cane to get round, so she’ll be catering the meal and having her complete household fly in. Debra shall be coming along with the identical household she was with on July 4.
“There are numerous households in Highland Park that do not have folks with them this Thanksgiving due to what occurred,” Baum mentioned. “It is a very weighty realization.”
However there’s additionally gratitude for random issues and other people, like for the proper strangers who took in Liz’s 3-year-old daughter for a few hours after she was shot. And the neighbor she’d by no means met earlier than who lent her a step stool for her mattress.
Turning ache into goal is what unites these ladies now as they foyer for an assault weapons ban in Congress. As a result of whereas life for them won’t ever be the identical, it does transfer on.
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WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden administration is but once more extending the pause on federal scholar mortgage funds, a profit that started in March 2020 to assist individuals who have been struggling financially because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a supply conversant in the plan mentioned.
The Division of Training will announce it’s extending the freeze one other six months with the primary funds due two months after June 30, the supply mentioned, until a Supreme Courtroom resolution on the president’s scholar mortgage aid program comes first.
The administration had beforehand mentioned the latest extension could be the final, and funds have been scheduled to restart in January.
However the administration had additionally meant for its scholar mortgage forgiveness program to start canceling as much as $20,000 in debt for low- and middle-income debtors earlier than January. This system has but to be carried out because it faces a number of authorized challenges.
This story is breaking and can be up to date.
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