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The Center Square: Lawsuit challenging Pritzker's COVID-19 orders moves toward appellate court
A hearing Friday in a lawsuit state Rep. Darren Bailey filed to challenge Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s executive orders could lead to a full-blown appeal.
Clay County Judge Michael McHaney sided with Bailey, R-Xenia, on two counts regarding the governor’s orders just before the Independence Day Holiday weekend. The judge ruled July 2 that any COVID-19 executive order beyond April 8 is invalid. McHaney didn’t rule on the first count, which deals with the definition of an emergency and if the COVID-19 meets that definition.
Crain's Chicago Business: Here's how steep the COVID downturn is for the commercial real estate biz
The delinquency rate on mortgages packaged and resold as bonds—known as commercial mortgage-backed securities, or CMBS—rose to a record 14 percent in June, eclipsing the last high of 10.4 percent in 2013, according to Trepp, a New York research firm.
WBEZ: Chicago police impounded 250,000 vehicles sine 2010. City Hall's rethinking that.
Last month, Chicago’s aldermen spent nearly an hour of their virtual council meeting debating whether the city should add Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, to its list of paid holidays.
That didn’t happen, but the proposal’s theme of racial justice permeated the meeting. It had been just three weeks since the city erupted in violence after the police killing of George Floyd, a Black resident of Minneapolis, and tensions were high in the council chambers.