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In An Era of Big Money, the University of Illinois Shrugs Off Rules on Athletes’ NIL Deals
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Records show that a fraction of the school’s athletes are complying with a state law requiring them to disclose endorsements. In the wild west of college sports, Illinois’ flagship university says the rules are losing relevance.
https://www.propublica.org/article/university-illinois-nil-basketball-college-sports-ncaa-endorsements-disclosures?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Illinois #University #Students #Law #Basketball #MarchMadness
What the Trump Administration’s Videos From a Chicago Immigration Raid Don’t Show
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The Trump administration’s slickly produced videos of an immigration raid at a Chicago apartment building in September showed federal agents rappelling from a helicopter and banging down doors. These are the stories of the people who were inside.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-raid-apartment-building-venezuelans-stories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Chicago #Illinois #ICE #Immigration #Trump #Immigrants #Venezuela
A Teacher Dragged a 6-Year-Old With Autism by His Ankle. Federal Civil Rights Officials Might Not Do Anything.
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The Garrison School is part of a special education district that had students arrested at the highest rate in the country. It had pledged to change how it disciplines kids after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation and subsequent federal probe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/garrison-school-illinois-autistic-student-dragged-ankle?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Illinois #Autism #Disability #Students #School #Education #CivilRights
“All Our Future Money Is Gone”: The Impossible Task of Providing Child Care in Rural Illinois
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Though the governor promised to make Illinois “the best state” to raise young children, child care continues to disappear. And, as one couple learned, there’s almost no help for those building a child care facility from the ground up.
When the Casners signed the deed for their new child care center, their dreams felt within reach. But even a $600K loan wasn’t enough. They borrowed $200K from their retirement, and it took another 10 months for their doors to open.
Here’s why.
https://propub.li/4j8yNbg
#Illinois #ChildCare #Parenting #Children #Labor #Government
Illinois legislators just passed a law to explicitly prevent police from ticketing and fining students for minor misbehavior — such as littering, swearing or vaping — at school.
The legislation comes three years after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation into the practice.
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-bans-police-ticketing-students-school-price-kids-pay?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services reports that it misses a 90-day deadline to approve child care licensing applications about a third of the time. In regions with severe staffing shortages, that rate can rise above 50%.
#News #Illinois #Rural #Children #Family #Parenting #Education
Hoping to “Trump Proof” Students’ Civil Rights, Illinois Lawmakers Aim to End Police Ticketing at School
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The latest version of a bill spurred by a 2022 ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation would explicitly prevent police from ticketing students for violations such as vaping or truancy, and require districts to track and disclose police activity.
Amid Increasing Domestic Violence, Illinois Struggles to Review Fatalities
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Four years after the state called for a network of domestic violence review panels, only seven counties have joined committees. Glaringly absent from the program: Cook County, home to Chicago and about 40% of the state’s population.
https://www.propublica.org/article/deaths-are-rising-but-illinois-domestic-violence-review-boards-have-yet-to-offer-solutions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Illinois Has Virtually No Homeschooling Rules. A New Bill Aims to Change That.
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Following a ProPublica and Capitol News Illinois investigation, an Illinois lawmaker introduced legislation that aims to protect homeschooled students from abuse or neglect.
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-homeschool-regulations-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Illinois #Homeschool #Education #Children #Parenting #Law
#Illinois picks of the day:
➡️ @loren - Photographer, bird, wildlife, plants etc in northern Illinois
➡️ @jennylam - Multidisciplinary artist & independent curator
➡️ @bikegridnow - Campaigning for bicycle infrastructure in Chicago
➡️ @BlockClubCh - Local news service for Chicago, run by non-profit, supported by readers
➡️ @ChicagoSunTimes - Chicago newspaper
➡️ @chicagotribune - Another Chicago newspaper
➡️ @BleacherNation - Sports news site, especially Chicago teams
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We Found Widespread Abuse of Disabled Patients at an Illinois Facility. The DOJ Is Investigating.
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A federal probe into Illinois’ treatment of disabled people will examine abuse and neglect allegations at state-run residential institutions — including Choate, the subject of a yearlong Capitol News Illinois and ProPublica investigation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-disabilities-doj-investigation-choate-abuse?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Two Chicago police officers were investigated for sexual misconduct — then promoted.
It wasn’t an oversight.
Despite a decadeslong reform effort, the Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows for disciplinary records to be ignored.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-police-department-sexual-misconduct-promotions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Chicago #Illinois #Police #SexualAssault #DomesticViolence #Law
For Blake Gerard, a fourth-generation farmer working the flood-prone fields of the Mississippi River bottomlands in Alexander County, Ill., there was no sense in fighting nature.
“I could grow something that would grow in water,” he said. Or quit.
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-rice-soy-corn-flooding-mississippi-river?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive
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Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy. Under Trump, those programs may weaken further.
#News #Illinois #Farming #Agriculture #Flood #Drought #Climate
#Illinois USA accounts to follow:
NEWS
@BlockClubCh - Local news for Chicago, run by non-profit
@ChicagoSunTimes - Chicago Sun-Times
@chicagotribune - Chicago Tribune
@index - Rockton, Roscoe, South Beloit news
FOOD & DRINK
@grumpasaurus - Chicago restaurant review videos & cooking tutorials
@seth - Blog of cocktails & other drinks in Chicago bars
ART & CREATIVITY
@jennylam - Chicago multidisciplinary artist & curator
@makerspace_urbana - Urbana makerspace for arts & tech crafts
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NEW: 3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town?
Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis.
More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weirder things got.
https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printed-affordable-housing-cairo-illinois-prestige
Neighborhood Summer Sunset - A simple moment sunset on a neighborhood street in Midwest America. Made in my home town of Homewood, Illinois - USA. Sometimes our lives can get so busy that we miss moments like this even if for a simple moment in time. Because it is in the simple moments that have lasting impressions on us.
Made with the Pentax Optio E90. Copyright 2023 Frank J Casella - https://fineartamerica.com/featured/neighborhood-summer-sunset-frank-j-casella.html
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Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. That didn’t pan out.
When reporter Molly Parker started to investigate what went wrong, she found the printer disassembled on a flatbed truck at a country repair shop.
Then things got weird.
https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printer-cairo-illinois-housing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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