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Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson said 20 data centers are currently operating, with five more under construction. He said the data centers generated $26 million in revenue to the village last year alone. In some years, the windfall is so high that the town issues $200 gift cards to residents as tax rebates.

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Village board member Cory Wesley, perhaps the most outspoken proponent of eliminating single family zoning districts in Oak Park, says single family zoning is racist in origin and limits affordability and socio-economic diversity: “It was implemented to keep Black people out of various different areas, Oak Park being one of them. It is not unique to Oak Park, this is prevalent a...

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Retired Police Chief Tom Weitzel: "Illinois has developed a reputation for passing sweeping criminal justice reforms that prioritize political optics over operational reality. Public safety too often takes a backseat to messaging. The Clean Slate Act appears to follow that same pattern."

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Despite warnings from their colleague that they are ripping a hole in the U.S. Constitution and the concept of federalism, two Democrat-appointed federal appeals court judges have refused to put a hold on a Chicago federal judge's order blocking Florida's Republican state attorney general from using Florida state courts to enforce a Florida law against the Chicago-based American...

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