ABC7
— Illinois COVID Update: IL reports 2,146 cases, 36 deaths
https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-covid-update-idph-coronavirus-il-19-cases/11151968/
— House votes to hold Trump ally Steve Bannon in contempt – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/steve-bannon-contempt-subpoena-january-6-capitol-insurrection/11152252/
— Trump social media app launched in effort to rival Big Tech companies – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/truth-social-media-trump-platform/11151753/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— As judge urges Chicago and its police union to lower ‘the flames’ over vaccine mandate spat, Indiana officials invite CPD officers to apply for jobs there – ALICE YIN and GREGORY PRATT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/vaccine/ct-chicago-police-vaccine-mandate-standoff-20211021-2ylbuv7ycbgnratzxxkfriazti-story.html
— Will County Board delays remap vote, giving time for possible compromise – MICHELLE MULLINS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-will-county-remap-vote-st-1022-20211021-whymnz7s65ayvptkg67t26wovu-story.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Judge scolds city, police union over vax mandate legal battle: ‘Everybody that’s involved here is in public service’ As the vaccine mandate standoff continues, the police union’s City Council allies are flexing their legislative muscle. – Mitch Dudek and Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2021/10/21/22738705/vaccine-mandate-legal-battle-judge-scolds-city-police-union-fop-city-council-allies-flex-muscle
— Cook County gun, ammunition taxes shot down by state’s top court State Supreme Court Justice Mary Jane Theis wrote that the taxes violate the constitution’s uniformity clause and “impose a burden on the exercise of a fundamental right protected by the second amendment.” – Rachel Hinton
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2021/10/21/22739075/cook-county-gun-ammunition-taxes-illinois-state-supreme-court-theis-preckwinkle
— COMMENT: From what I see, ever-increasingly, in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, the more of the following that you are, the less welcome that you are: Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/10/21/22738570/photographers-exhibit-black-brown-youth-reflect-how-can-feel-unwelcome
DAILY HERALD
— What are the next steps toward vaccinating younger children? – Jake Griffin
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20211021/what-are-the-next-steps-toward-vaccinating-younger-children
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Advocate Aurora Health fires more than 400 employees who refused COVID-19 vaccines – Aimee Barrows
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/news/local/2021/10/20/advocate-aurora-health-fires-more-than-400-employees-who-refused-covid-19-vaccines/
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Here’s a copy of the lawsuit parents in 145 IL school districts filed over masking rules – MEGAN VALLEY
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/education/article255177577.html
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Illinois GOP size up run against Pritzker – Justin Kaufmann
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2021/10/21/illinois-gop-size-up-run-against-pritzker
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— After Pritzker’s ‘grifter’ comment, attorney considers defamation case – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/after-pritzker-s-grifter-comment-attorney-considers-defamation-case/article_6424adfc-328e-11ec-867d-f33a24d9e3ce.html
FOX ILLINOIS
— Border crisis front and center this week on Capitol Hill – KRISTINE FRAZAO
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/border-crisis-front-and-center-this-week-on-capitol-hill
— 17 GOP AGs accuse federal government of intimidating parents at school board meetings – ANN DAILEY MORENO
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/17-gop-ags-accuse-federal-government-of-intimidating-parents-at-school-board-meetings
ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— ILGOP Chairman Announces New Election Integrity Committee
https://illinois.gop/ilgop-chairman-announces-new-election-integrity-committee/
CAPITOL FAX
— Remap roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2021/10/21/remap-roundup-6/
— Illinois unemployment rate 2 points higher than national rate
https://capitolfax.com/2021/10/21/illinois-unemployment-rate-2-points-higher-than-national-rate/
— DeVore threatens lawsuit *** Pritzker calls DeVore a “grifter”
https://capitolfax.com/2021/10/21/pritzker-calls-devore-a-grifter/
— Illinois Supreme Court shoots down Cook County’s tax on firearms and ammo
https://capitolfax.com/2021/10/21/illinois-supreme-court-shoots-down-cook-countys-tax-on-firearms-and-ammo/
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Media takes pot shots at Trump’s ‘Truth’ – Jennifer Harper
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/21/inside-beltway-media-takes-pot-shots-trumps-truth/
FOX NEWS
— Suburban Chicago police chiefs back bill to ‘override’ Kim Foxx’s lax charging decisions GOP Rep. Jim Durkin said criminals are winning the war on crime in Chicago – Danielle Wallace
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-override-kim-foxx
— White House press corps member pleads for Biden to take more questions Deputy press secretary insists Biden ‘takes questions all the time’ – Kyle Morris
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-press-corps-begs-biden-to-take-more-questions-from-reporters
GOPUSA
— ‘Moderate’ Joe Biden Has Become A Socialist Tyrant
https://www.gopusa.com/moderate-joe-biden-has-become-a-socialist-tyrant/
— Ted Cruz Touts Cambridge, Nantucket And Martha’s Vineyard As Immigrant Ports Of Entry Under New Plan
https://www.gopusa.com/ted-cruz-touts-cambridge-nantucket-and-marthas-vineyard-as-immigrant-ports-of-entry-under-new-plan/
— Liz Cheney Continues Assault On Republicans As She Assists Pelosi’s Jan. 6 Witch Hunt
https://www.gopusa.com/liz-cheney-continues-assault-on-republicans-as-she-assists-pelosis-jan-6-witch-hunt/
— Who’s Choking Off Your Children? – Michelle Malkin
https://www.gopusa.com/whos-choking-off-your-children/
— Smug Jen Psaki Is What Joe Biden Calls Transparent
https://www.gopusa.com/smug-jen-psaki-is-what-joe-biden-calls-transparent/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Virginia Voters, Beware the Weaponization of Teachers – S. Ernie Walton
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/10/virginia_voters_beware_the_weaponization_of_teachers.html
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Why Is Biden Moving Refugees Under Cover of Darkness? If Americans supported allowing unchecked numbers of foreigners into the country, this kind of subterfuge would not be necessary. – Brian Lonergan
https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/20/why-is-biden-moving-refugees-under-cover-of-darkness/
NEWSMAX
— Texas, Missouri AGs Sue Biden to Finish Border Wall – Jack Gournell
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/border-wall-texas-missouri-ken-paxton/2021/10/21/id/1041517/
PJ MEDIA
— UC Berkeley Students Happily Pledge Money to Help the Taliban Kill Americans Inside the U.S. – ROBERT SPENCER
https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2021/10/21/uc-berkeley-students-happily-pledge-money-to-help-the-taliban-kill-americans-inside-the-u-s-n1525684
TOWNHALL
— CRT, Anti-racism, BLM: Legacies Of A Slave Mentality – Will Alexander
https://townhall.com/columnists/willalexander/2021/10/21/crt-antiracism-blm-legacies-of-a-slave-mentality-n2597788
— The Existential Threat of CRT: State-Sponsored Racism – Ken Blackwell (COMMENT: GAO works for Congress. In Diersen v. GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors hinted/implied/argued/shouted that they treated me just like Congress want them to treat GAO employees who complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and who had become an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $20,361 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2021/10/21/the-existential-threat-of-crt-statesponsored-racism-n2597765
EPOCH TIMES
— Condoleezza Rice Denounces Critical Race Theory Curriculums Being Taught in Schools – Masooma Haq
https://www.theepochtimes.com/condoleezza-rice-denounces-critical-race-theory-curriculums-being-taught-in-schools_4061703.html
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
— Hourly workers in US say no to weekends and late nights – AP (COMMENT: I worked evenings and Saturdays washing dishes for the minimum wage during my junior and senior years in high school 1964-1966. I worked evenings and weekends pumping gasoline during the summer of 1966. I worked evenings, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays delivering mail 1966-1969. I worked evenings and Saturdays selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I worked evenings and Saturdays pumping gasoline 1971-1972.)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2021/1021/Hourly-workers-in-US-say-no-to-weekends-and-late-nights
THE HILL
— Kinzinger ‘certainly willing’ to subpoena Trump in Jan. 6 probe: ‘He’s not off limits’ – MONIQUE BEALS
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/577769-kinzinger-certainly-willing-to-subpoena-trump-in-jan-6-probe-hes-not-off
FORBES
— Jobless Claims Hit New Pandemic Low As Number Of Americans Receiving Unemployment Benefits Falls To 3.3 Million – Jonathan Ponciano
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/10/21/jobless-claims-hit-new-pandemic-low-as-number-of-americans-receiving-unemployment-benefits-falls-to-33-million/
