Steve Cortes, president of the League of American Workers, said that perceptions of race relations deteriorated significantly during Barack Obama's tenure. Read more…

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“We don’t have enough power to meet the goal of a million [electric] vehicles at this point,” said John Walton, former chairman and current emeritus board member of the Illinois Alliance for Clean Transportation. There are still less than 150,000 EVs registered statewide, well below the state’s targeted goal of 1 million by 2030.

The “safety gap” has also narrowed, but it still remains staggering. This year, Black Chicagoans have been 19 times more likely than White Chicagoans to be the victim of a homicide.

The law increases the age from 14 to 18 for what’s considered a minor where a firearm must be “secured by a device or mechanism, other than the firearm safety, designed to render a firearm temporarily inoperable;” or “placed in a securely locked box or container.”

“It’s unfortunate there has to be this fear around federal immigration enforcement,” said Beatriz Ponce de León, Chicago’s deputy mayor of immigrant, migrant and refugee rights. “We come together to say firmly that people should reject the negative attacks that are coming from our federal government, that we will protect each other and will take care of each other. And that’s what makes Chicago such a great city.”