ComEd Quadruples Payments To Powerhouse Law Firm Amidst Corruption Probe
ComEd’s payments to Jenner & Block spiked as federal prosecutors investigated the company’s ties to Illinois politicians.
ComEd’s payments to Jenner & Block spiked as federal prosecutors investigated the company’s ties to Illinois politicians.
President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday encouraging police departments to improve training — a step critics say falls short of what is needed to curb police officers’ use of force against people of color.This episode: campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, and congressional reporter Claudia Grisales.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
Reset checks in with a Northwestern professor who’s been making the argument since he was a law student in the ‘80s.
Kwame Raoul is the first statewide official to announce he tested positive for COVID-19.
Illinois has less than 45% of the funds needed for state pensions. The problem has been a long time coming, but COVID-19 may make it a crisis.
The president is facing political pressure to take action following the national outcry over the killing of George Floyd and others at the hands of police.
Former Ald. Burt Natarus of the 42nd Ward died Thursday at age 86. He served on Chicago’s City Council for nearly 40 years.
The vote was 6-3 with conservatives Chief Justice John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch joining the court’s four liberal justices in the majority. “In Title VII, Congress adopted broad language making it illegal for an employer to rely on an employee’s sex when deciding to fire that employee,” the court held in Monday’s decision. “We do not hesitate to recognize today a necessary consequence of that legislative choice: an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law.”In this episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and national Justice correspondent Carrie Johnson.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
The popular, 18-mile trail will be open for cyclists and runners, but beaches will remained closed.
The 20-member task force will include Chicago residents, experts and members of anti-racism groups.