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The Center Square: Illinois lawmaker wants hockey out of penalty box
An Illinois lawmaker wants to get non-contact hockey out of the Illinois Department of Public Health’s penalty box.
The Illinois Department of Public Health classifies hockey in its highest-risk grouping in terms of possibly spreading COVID-19 from one player to another. Other sports in the same category include football, boxing, wrestling, competitive cheer, and rugby.
Crain's Chicago Business: Rush to refinance sparks jump in accidental property tax payments
In August, Treasurer Maria Pappas’ office detected $51.2 million in duplicate payments compared to $21 million in all of 2019. In all, there were accidental attempts to overpay on 13,324 second-installment tax bills that were due Aug. 3, about three times the number for the first-installment bills, which were due March 1.
Chicago Tribune: Chicago inspector general interviewed Mayor Lori Lightfoot in former police Superintendent Eddie Johnson investigation, her office confirms
Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson’s office interviewed Mayor Lori Lightfoot as part of his investigation into the incident where then-police Superintendent Eddie Johnson was found asleep at the wheel, but the city continues to withhold his full report on the incident.
Emails obtained by the Tribune show Ferguson’s office scheduled separate hour-and-a-half-long interviews with Lightfoot and her chief of staff, Maurice Classen, a couple of weeks before she fired Johnson. It’s unknown what investigators asked Lightfoot, who publicly acknowledged last fall that she would be a witness in the investigation.