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David Greising: We need statewide solutions to the poor oversight at Illinois’ county jails (opens the original)
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Systemic failures of government are never acceptable. When they affect people being held in custody while awaiting trial, the stakes are particularly high. People held in Illinois’ 90 county jails are virtually all presumed innocent. A few are held after conviction on minor offenses, too. Some have violated parole; others are accused of violent crimes. Many have mental health issues or drug addiction. As a society, we are obligated to keep them safe and healthy. They are entitled to humane treat
David Greising: If we held city elections on the same day as national elections, it would strengthen democracy (opens the original)
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At the national level, the midterm elections are all the talk in political circles right now, with Election Day less than two months away. But here in Chicago, it’s the 2027 mayoral election that people can’t stop talking about. Mayor Brandon Johnson is expected to announce a reelection campaign as soon as this weekend. Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, who is running for reelection to state office, also is campaigning for mayor, having raised $22 million for the race. State Comptroller Susa
David Greising: Gov. JB Pritzker’s pause on data centers isn’t a long-term plan (opens the original)
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Not long ago, Gov. JB Pritzker, like many other governors, saw data centers as a generational opportunity for economic growth, and he argued that Illinois needed to lead the data chase. Pritzker even signed a 2019 bill that encouraged the use of tax incentives to help ensure data-center growth. After all, the huge computing power delivered by data centers is driving the increasingly artificial intelligence-driven economy. But now the dimensions of the vast amount of power and water needed to dri
David Greising: Illinois House speaker’s only way out of latest government scandal is through ethics reform (opens the original)
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It says something about the state of ethics in Illinois government that the very person who succeeded the felon Michael Madigan as House speaker is now under a dark ethics cloud himself. There are no charges of public corruption surrounding Emanuel “Chris” Welch. In fact, as speaker, Welch has rebooted a lot of what was wrong with Madigan’s handling of the office. He has sought a more inclusive style of leadership, been accessible to the public and the press, and even committed to serve no more
David Greising: Rep. Harry Benton resigned after misconduct allegations. The state owes us a report. (opens the original)
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Harry Benton was hardly a household name during an undistinguished tenure in the Illinois House of Representatives. Now, if his name is recalled at all, he’ll likely be another figure in the long-running saga of ethical failures or corruption in state government. Well, we may never find out. And that’s a shortcoming in implementation of the state’s ethics law that adds insult — and unnecessary mystery — to the injury evidently inflicted by the now-former Democratic House member from Plainfield w
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