Category: Illinois

Nurses Sue Hospital For Alleged Denial Of Religious COVID Vaccine Exemptions

Nurses who face termination from their jobs at an Illinois hospital have filed a lawsuit against the facility for allegedly refusing to grant them religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing that the move is illegal under state law. Six nurses who work at Riverside Healthcare in Kankakee, Illinois, filed a lawsuit (pdf) in…


Nurses Sue Hospital for Alleged Denial of Religious COVID-19 Vaccine Exemptions

Nurses who face termination from their jobs at an Illinois hospital have filed a lawsuit against the facility for allegedly refusing to grant them religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing that the move is illegal under state law. Six nurses who work at Riverside Healthcare in Kankakee, Illinois, filed a lawsuit (pdf) in…


Nurses Sue Illinois Hospital for Alleged Denial of Religious COVID-19 Vaccine Exemptions

Nurses who face termination from their jobs at an Illinois hospital have filed a lawsuit against the facility for allegedly refusing to grant them religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing that the move is illegal under state law. Six nurses who work at Riverside Healthcare in Kankakee, Illinois, filed a lawsuit (pdf) in…


Boeing Finds New Defect in Continuing Struggle to Produce Dreamliner 787

WASHINGTON—Boeing Co. said Thursday that some titanium 787 Dreamliner parts were improperly manufactured over the past three years, the latest in a series of problems to plague the wide-body aircraft. The quality issue does not affect the immediate safety of flights, the company said, adding it had notified the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Boeing is…


Chicago Police Union Head Calls on Members to Defy Vaccine Mandate

The head of the Chicago police officers union on Tuesday called on its members to refuse to comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which is set to take effect on Friday. “Do not fill out the portal information,” Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara said in a video to officers posted on YouTube….


Illinois Healthcare Workers Protest Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

EVANSTON, Ill.—It was David Smith’s first protest, and he never thought it would be against the hospital system where he had risked his own life to save others. A 34-year veteran medical professional, Smith served AIDS patients in the 90s, swine flu patients in 2009, and COVID-19 patients in the last two years. He caught…


Illinois Congressional Delegation Opposes State’s Redistricting Process in Battle for US House Majority

The Illinois Republican congressional delegation has called the recent redistricting process in their state a “sham,” criticizing the redistricting committee as partisan. Republican Reps. Rodney Davis, Mike Bost, Adam Kinzinger, Darin LaHood, and Mary Miller accused the committee of favoring Democrats in the new maps. “Illinois citizens have been clear that they want an independent…


Federal Prosecutors Unravel Cold-Case Murder at Chicago Gang Trial

CHICAGO—Frederick Cornell has had a recurring nightmare since his brother Willie Woods was murdered on April 16, 2003. It was in the early evening, and Cornell and Woods were chatting on a sidewalk in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. Two men walked past them and suddenly turned around with…


Judge Keeps Weapons Charge Against Rittenhouse

A judge refused to dismiss a weapons charge Tuesday against an Illinois man accused of shooting three people during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin last year. Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz during the protest in Kenosha. Prosecutors charged Rittenhouse, who was…


Self-Confessed Killer Testifies Against Alleged Boss at Federal Gang Trial in Chicago

CHICAGO—Sammie Booker, sitting on the witness stand, revealed to jurors that he had robbed and extorted scores of drug dealers, killed three people, and aided at least two other murders as an underling of the Four Corner Hustlers gang on the West Side of Chicago in the past two decades. And more importantly, he said,…