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Daily Dirt for Monday, Nov. 18, 2024 Ten years and counting for the Windy City atop an unwanted throne … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,116 of The Daily Dirt. 1. The next time you’re thinking about taking a trip to Chicago, here’s some food for thought: For the 10th consecutive year…
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It’s been an open secret for weeks that at least some members of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Intergovernmental Affairs staff would be leaving after the Democratic National Convention, including its director, Sydney Holman. That happened last week. Holman quit and two others were forced out of the IGA office, which liaisons with both the city…
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I had to choose my mode of transportation to attend a journalism conference in Chicago last week. I hate driving to and in Chicago, and I have always enjoyed taking the train. When I used to take it regularly for work, it was relatively reliable. I love flying, but when heading to a conference downtown,…
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QUINCY – Quincy city officials have been in discussions with social service agencies to consider how to handle a possible influx of immigrants should buses from the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas arrive in the Gem City. At Monday’s Quincy City Council meeting, Mark Philpot, who chairs the city’s Human Rights Commission asked what the plan…
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Ahead of next summer’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, top Democratic officials on Tuesday signed a “labor peace agreement,” reinforcing Democrats’ longstanding ties to organized labor and limiting potential disruptions at the highly watched event. The deal means that the Democratic National Committee will use union labor when available and that the unions won’t strike…
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Ill.— Dot Foods, Inc., and its trucking affiliate Dot Transportation, Inc. continue to expand its Chicago distribution center located in the University Park Industrial Park (251 Central Avenue, University Park, IL, 60484). On June 7, Dot Foods Chicago broke ground on a new 100,000 square-foot warehouse expansion, new parking for Dot Transportations’s trucking operations, and a…
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CHICAGO — Amtrak will resume its full service to the Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg lines on Monday, Jan. 16. Per a recent e-mail from Amtrak Senior Manager, Derrick James, our community will be regaining the service that was temporarily reduced. See below some of the information we received from this e-mail. “Amtrak is pleased…
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The blue wave that crashed in Illinois two weeks ago really wasn’t a surprise to anyone who pays attention to Illinois politics. Now the leaders and members of the state’s Republican party need to have some tough discussions. Because what they’ve been doing isn’t working. Talking about seceding or creating “New Illinois” is a fool’s…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Amtrak today has announced that morning train service between Quincy and Chicago has been suspended through Jan. 16. Amtrak trains 381 leaving Chicago at 7:35 a.m. and 380 leaving Quincy at 6:12 a.m. are canceled until mid-January. Amtrak is notifying customers who purchased tickets for those trains that buses will be used for…
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Republican gubernatorial candidate makes stop in Quincy on first day QUINCY — State Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) kicked off a weeklong bus tour of Illinois and wrapped up the first day in the Gem City. A crowd of about 150 turned out at the Holiday Inn to hear the Republican candidate for governor. He was…
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Chicago may not have much to hang its hat on sports-wise, but … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 311 of The Daily Dirt. 1. The Bears are not a threat to win the Super Bowl… the Bulls won’t be NBA champions anytime soon, the Blackhawks and the Cubs are terrible and…
Read Full Article Illinois Democrats are floating Chicago as a potential site for the 2024 Democratic National Convention, a bid that could bring back a marquee political event that last swung through town nearly three decades ago. Gov. JB Pritzker, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth are coordinating the potential effort to land their party’s…
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A more bizarre and destructive mismatch of economic circumstances and policy direction would be hard to imagine. The country is now strangled by an unprecedented, acute deficit of workers, which is partly responsible for growing product shortages and logistical logjams. Desperate companies are offering higher wages, flexible schedules free college tuition and even doing away with drug…
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