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John Deere layoffs continue as over 800 jobs are cut in Iowa, Illinois
Hit by inflation and plummeting demand as agricultural prices turn down, John Deere is continuing layoffs, announcing Monday it will cut 813 employees from plants in Iowa and Illinois. Iowa's Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification website showed 211 being eliminated at the company’s Davenport plant and 99 in Dubuque, effective...
Local nonprofit Let It Be Us marks 10 years of helping kids find loving homes: 'The need is growing'
In this week’s Difference Maker, WBBM’s Lisa Fielding introduces us to a Barrington woman who’s using her own personal experience to help kids find good homes: Dr. Susan McConnell, with the nonprofit Let It Be Us.
Mission of Mercy event provides nearly $2M in free dental care
PEORIA (25News Now) - The Illinois State Dental Society’s seventh Mission of Mercy event gave $1.6 million in critical dental services to over 1,300 patients. The weekend event saw the 1,306 patients from more than 55 counties and three states descend on the Peoria Civic Center. More than 80...
Illinois Police pension hires deputy CIO for private markets implementation
The Illinois Police Officers’ Pension Investment Fund in Peoria named Greg Turk to the role of deputy chief investment officer -- a new position in which he will oversee the planning and implementation of private market investments. Turk joins the $10 billion pension after having been director of investments for the Teachers’ Retirement System of […]
Pritzker could sign reusable tenant screening bill, further regulating landlords
(The Center Square) – Illinois could become the latest in a string of states to enact a measure seeking to save renters money on repeated application costs with House Bill 4926 on Gov. J.B. Pritzker's desk. The measure would amend the Landlord and Tenant Act to allow a tenant to use what’s called a reusable tenant screening report when applying to rent properties. Proponents say the bill can save renters money by letting them get their own basic screening from a third party. The screening...
Some are calling on an Illinois gas utility’s pipe safety plan to be scaled back
(The Center Square) – Last year, Peoples Gas was granted a $303 million natural gas rate hike in Illinois as a result of its gas pipe replacement program. Some are calling for the program to be overhauled. Illinois Public Interest Research Group filed expert witness testimony detailing multiple fundamental errors in Peoples Gas’ methods of prioritizing risk reduction to protect public safety. The testimony was among several filed by Illinois PIRG, the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, the City of Chicago, Gas Workers Local...
NALC rallies in Illinois for bill to protect postal workers
Bill would address violence against letter carriers, improve collection box security. The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) held a rally June 14, with more than 350 members, other postal service workers and community allies in Moline, Ill., calling for the passage of the Protect Our Letter Carriers Act. H.R....
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