FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Former VP Pence undergoes heart surgery to implant pacemaker – Thomas Barrabi
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/former-vp-pence-undergoes-heart-surgery-to-implant-pacemaker
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Lightfoot calls video of fatal police shooting of Adam Toledo, 13, ‘excruciating’ | Pritzker vs. Exelon reprieve? | Disparities continue during legal weed’s first year in Chicago – LISA DONOVAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-lightfoot-police-video-adam-toledo-pritzker-nuclear-audit-spin-20210415-bqoyb2zjvjemjdw2m6c2jqxgwa-story.html
— Democratic US Rep. Schneider refuses to work with GOP lawmakers who don’t accept Biden election victory. – STEVE SADIN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/ct-lns-schneider-republicans-st-0416-20210415-ckvlycfmdnhb3iqlkjzqrxbkmq-story.html
— Suburban summer festivals canceled because of coronavirus: a running list – WENDY FOX WEBER
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-ent-summer-fests-canceled-0420-20210415-npmhrbtqqfamvfc77wlncvy3pa-story.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats begin long-shot push to expand the Supreme Court. President Joe Biden last week created a commission to spend the next six months examining the politically incendiary issues of expanding the court and instituting term limits for justices. – AP
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/4/15/22386424/democrats-begin-long-shot-push-to-expand-the-supreme-court
DAILY HERALD
— Human error at fault for McHenry County election issues – Kelli Duncan
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210415/report-human-error-at-fault-for-mchenry-county-election-issues
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Crain’s Chicago Business makes it clear that it is anti-Republican.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/government/chicagos-biggest-corporate-names-missing-letter-defending-voting-rights
— Allstate’s pay-per-mile policies boom in the work-from-home era – Bloomberg (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, I drive fewer and fewer and fewer miles each year.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/insurance/allstates-pay-mile-policies-boom-work-home-era
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Covid-19 shutdowns that swept the U.S. have been a boon for a newer auto-insurance product: pay-per-mile coverage. During the pandemic, Allstate Corp. has seen interest surge in its Milewise offering, which lets customers pay auto-insurance premiums for just the amount of driving they actually complete, said Glenn Shapiro, president of Allstate’s personal property-liability operations. The number of cars insured through Milewise was about six times higher last year than in 2019, and there were roughly four times more policies, with some covering multiple vehicles.)
— The next tough conversation is about class. It’s a worldwide phenomenon with real implications: Socio-economic disadvantages prevail in every major economy. Why isn’t the discussion more prevalent when we consider workplace diversity? – EMILY DRAKE and TODD CONNOR (DIERSEN: Neither of my outstanding parents attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/chicago-comes-back/next-tough-conversation-about-class
(FROM THE ARTICLE: TC: We recently came across this Harvard Business Review article that elevated another diversity category we do not generally talk about, but has profound implications: class. Workers who come from lower social-class origins in the United States are 32 percent less likely to become managers than those who come from higher social-class origins. This, it turns out, is a worldwide phenomenon, with social class disadvantage prevailing in every major economy in the world. Reading this is both not a surprise, but also struck me for the novelty. Why isn’t the conversation about class more prevalent when we consider diversity in the workplace? ED: That’s a big question, and I’m not sure there’s one answer. It is true that while companies have a number of employee resource groups, very few (only Uber, according to the research of the author) explicitly has an employee resource group based on social class. The conversation can, perhaps, feel stigmatizing. People are uncomfortable talking about wealth, social class and having grown up poor or to parents who did not receive a college education, yet these things can have real-world impacts on our opportunities in life. It is not a protected legal class for employees, so that, too, probably speaks to why we have not elevated the conversation more in the workplace. But it does matter because the implications are real.)
CAPITOL FAX
— 3,581 new confirmed and probable cases; 40 additional deaths; 2,043 hospitalized; 468 in ICU; 4.2 percent average case positivity rate; 4.9 percent average test positivity rate; 129,317 average daily doses
https://capitolfax.com/2021/04/15/3581-new-confirmed-and-probable-cases-40-additional-deaths-2043-hospitalized-468-in-icu-42-percent-average-case-positivity-rate-49-percent-average-test-positivity-rate-129317-average-daily-doses/
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pence has pacemaker implanted to correct slow heart rate – Dave Boyer
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/15/mike-pence-has-pacemaker-implanted-correct-slow-he/
— Scalise: Two sets of COVID-19 rules for migrants, citizens. Holds up photos of packed centers, cites hypocrisy of travel rules. – Tom Howell Jr.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/15/steve-scalise-two-sets-covid-19-rules-migrants-cit/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Legislative platform aims to ensure funding for Illinois municipalities – Kevin Bessler
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/legislative-platform-aims-to-ensure-funding-for-illinois-municipalities
MSN
— Kinzinger Mocks Trump for ‘Whining and Wallowing’ in Victimhood – Jason Lemon
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-adam-kinzinger-mocks-trump-for-whining-and-wallowing-in-victimhood/ar-BB1fGEoL?li=BB141NW3
NEXSTAR
— Almost half of Republicans say they won’t get COVID vaccine in survey
https://www.ktsm.com/news/political-news/almost-half-of-republicans-say-they-wont-get-covid-vaccine-in-survey/
