Daywatch: Illinois’ population loss was actually a modest gain, new census figures show

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Because the solar set on Millennium Park a day after the extraordinary transfer by the mayor to restrict teenagers’ entry to the town’s premier out of doors area, a janitor quietly swept away the straightforward, stark memorial of tea lights that have been organized within the quantity “16.”

The small white candles to commemorate a Chicago teenager who was shot and killed at The Bean have been there for lower than an hour as vacationers walked by. After sweeping the lights that represented the teenager’s age into his dustpan, the janitor stated he didn’t know what they have been even there for.

Gun-violence memorials, whereas frequent in metropolis neighborhoods, have usually been uncommon issues in downtown Chicago.

“Downtown is meant to be the place that everyone’s supposed, go, chill, calm down, get to see the view, all the good buildings, and simply buy groceries and have enjoyable,” Daqwon Hargrove, 18, stated when requested of the current violence.

The capturing got here after a rising sense of unease amongst metropolis officers who’ve watched downtown gatherings develop from routine to harmful.

Police have been left with the problem of maintaining everybody secure in an open park and different areas meant to be points of interest in a glittering world metropolis. And metropolis leaders together with Mayor Lori Lightfoot have discovered themselves attempting to restrict such impromptu gatherings with out denying the younger individuals’s rights to hang around the place they need and their want, some say, to search out enjoyable exterior of troubled neighborhoods.

The Tribune’s Annie Sweeney, Paige Fry and Stephanie Casanova report on these challenges and reimagined areas.

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In distinction to the oft-expressed perception that Illinois is hemorrhaging individuals comes up to date Census figures.

The U.S. Census Bureau initially discovered that the state misplaced about 18,000 individuals over the prior decade, which was the primary time numbers confirmed Illinois’ total inhabitants had declined because it joined the union in 1818. However after a follow-up survey — one thing that occurs after every once-a-decade head rely of the U.S. inhabitants — it found the state’s inhabitants figures had seemingly been undercounted.

The census findings final yr displaying the inhabitants decline underscored a serious competition, made largely by Republicans seeking to criticize Illinois’ Democratic authorities leaders, that persons are fleeing the state due partly to excessive taxes and crime. Information that there was really an uptick in inhabitants had Democrats operating for his or her keyboards to trumpet the achieve.

Republican candidate for governor Richard Irvin has shifted $800,000 from his Ken Griffin-funded marketing campaign to 2 members of his slate of GOP candidates somewhat a couple of month earlier than the June 28 main.

Secretary of state candidate John Milhiser acquired $500,000 from the Irvin for Illinois Fund, whereas Steve Kim, a candidate for lawyer basic, acquired $300,000 from the Irvin fund, state marketing campaign information present. Each males are a part of a slate of Republicans in search of statewide workplaces put collectively by Irvin’s marketing campaign and backed by Griffin, Illinois’ wealthiest particular person and the billionaire founder and CEO of the Citadel hedge fund.

When medical marijuana gross sales started in Illinois in 2014, hashish companies usually selected unobtrusive buildings, typically hidden away in industrial parks, to promote the controversial product.

Nearly 10 years later and with recreation weed now authorized within the state, hashish has turn out to be large enterprise. Dispensaries are shifting from the out-of-the-way buildings the place they began into a few of the hottest retail corners in each metropolis and suburbs. Nationwide corporations have swept in to purchase native dispensaries, fueling additional enlargement and serving to create multistate operators value billions.

However, the Tribune’s Brian J. Rogal experiences, one group is being shut out.

Jackie Robinson was in headlines this weekend when New York Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson referred to Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson as “Jackie” throughout Saturday’s sport, igniting a brouhaha between the groups.

If cooler heads prevail, the Tribune’s Paul Sullivan writes, this may very well be a teachable second for Donaldson and anybody else attempting to know why utilizing Robinson’s title was thought-about “disrespectful” by Anderson and “racist” by La Russa.

Three Floyds in Munster, Indiana, has quietly reworked from scrappy underdog to becoming a member of Goose Island and Lagunitas as the most important breweries within the Chicago space.

However 10 years later, in spite of everything that development, the query is that this: How’s the beer? The Tribune’s Josh Noel tasted all the pieces he may discover on cabinets for a solution.