Good afternoon! It’s lastly Friday, and heads up: The e-newsletter will take a break Monday for Memorial Day. I’ll be on the seashore with a guide and a sweater. However first, right here’s what you could know at the moment.
1. Medicaid cuts from Congress might have an effect on each Prepare dinner County resident
One of many greatest public well being techniques within the nation is bracing for a blow to its funds as U.S. Home Republicans superior sweeping cuts to medical health insurance for thousands and thousands of low-income folks, my colleague Kristen Schorsch studies for WBEZ.
The measure would drastically cut back Medicaid, the general public medical health insurance program for people who find themselves low-income or disabled. The federal authorities and states usually break up the associated fee.
Consultants warn the cuts might result in longer wait occasions to see a physician, sufferers pushing aside care and better prices for everybody. Individuals who delay managing their diabetes, for instance, then get sicker and turn into way more costly to deal with within the emergency division.
Dr. Erik Mikaitis, CEO of Prepare dinner County Well being, predicts that even folks with personal insurance coverage might be affected by Medicaid cuts. For instance, they may discover the ER at their native hospital full of sufferers who’re instantly uninsured, growing everybody’s wait time to see a physician and probably making medical payments costlier as hospitals determine recoup misplaced Medicaid income. [WBEZ]
2. Chicago’s summer time security plan focuses on weekend nights and teenage gatherings
Metropolis officers unveiled their summer time security plan forward of the warmest months of the yr in Chicago, which additionally usually see a peak in shootings and homicides, WBEZ’s Anna Savchenko studies.
Their plan goals to curb mass shootings and cut back youth-involved and gender-based violence. Leaders additionally pledged to concentrate on the occasions knowledge exhibits individuals are most prone to getting damage: 9 p.m. to midnight, Thursday to Sunday throughout the summer time.
Violence interrupters will work to peacefully mediate battle in neighborhoods that see essentially the most violent crime and at giant teen gatherings downtown. Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling stated he would prioritize deploying officers to communities most affected by violent crime.
To assist hold teenagers busy, the town’s late-night basketball and softball collection will return, together with “Take Again the Block” events that goal to foster relationships between neighborhood members and public officers. [WBEZ]
Restaurant proprietor Dave Bonomi advised the Chicago Solar-Instances he’s been pressured to remove jobs at his three eating places after the town’s ordinance to section out the subminimum wage for tipped employees took impact final yr.
“We eradicated virtually 20 positions between our three eating places. We had 64 and now are all the way down to 45, largely due to it,” stated Bonomi, who owns Peanut Park Trattoria on Taylor Avenue and Coalfire, which has two areas.
Illinois regulation already requires servers whose suggestions and base wage don’t equal what they’d earn on minimal wage to be paid the distinction by employers. However these in favor of the town’s ordinance stated many eating places weren’t making up the distinction.
Advocates are urging state lawmakers to move HB2982, which might require employers to pay tipped employees the state or native minimal wage, whichever is larger. [Chicago Sun-Times]
4. The feds charged Chicagoan Elias Rodriguez with homicide within the embassy capturing
Authorities stated Rodriguez continued to fireplace on one of many two Israeli Embassy staff as she tried to crawl away, my colleague Jon Seidel studies for the Chicago Solar-Instances. When police arrived, Rodriguez allegedly advised them, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.”
That’s based on a six-page FBI affidavit supporting federal prison expenses. He’s charged with the first-degree homicide of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, who had been leaving an occasion on the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
Rodriguez was additionally charged with the homicide of overseas officers, inflicting the demise of an individual by using a firearm and discharge of a firearm throughout a criminal offense of violence. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Chicago Jewish teams stated safety is prime of thoughts after the deadly capturing. [Chicago Sun-Times]
5. Beyoncé helped Chicago set a every day resort occupancy file, Select Chicago CEO says
The highly effective, one-two punch of Beyoncé and the Nationwide Restaurant Affiliation Present set a every day file for resort occupancy final weekend, however the metropolis must spend much more on advertising to take care of that tourism momentum in unsure financial occasions, Fran Spielman writes for the Chicago Solar-Instances.
Chicago’s new conference and tourism company chief, Kristen Reynolds, is touting a plan that might greater than double her company’s annual funds by growing the tax in Chicago accommodations with 100 or extra rooms to 18.9%.
“All of my counterparts throughout the nation in New York and L.A. and San Francisco and Orlando — they’re attempting to draw these very same occasions we’re, and attempting to lure them away from us,” Reynolds advised the Solar-Instances. “So we have now to have the ability to have investments and ensure we’re in a position to compete to maintain these sorts of occasions.” [Chicago Sun-Times]
Right here’s what else is occurring
- A Day of Remembrance in Minneapolis marked 5 years since George Floyd’s homicide by a police officer. [Minnesota Public Radio]
- Billy Joel canceled all his upcoming concert events after saying he has a mind dysfunction. [New York Times]
- Federal brokers arrested at the least 4 individuals who confirmed up for his or her commonly scheduled hearings at Chicago’s immigration courtroom. [AP/WBEZ]
- Chicago’s former cultural head is pushing again exhausting on Trump’s arts assaults. [WBEZ]
Oh, and another factor …
Summer season is upon us (even when it doesn’t fairly really feel prefer it within the Chicago space), which implies a recent crop of blockbuster films hitting theaters and streaming companies.
There’s every part from new Superman and Jurassic World choices to race automobiles in F1, a lighthearted body-swap in Freakier Friday and three genre-spanning Pedro Pascal-led movies.
The Related Press compiled a information to assist hold observe of the numerous choices. [AP]
Inform me one thing good …
What’s your favourite place to get an Italian beef within the Chicago space?
Jay writes:
“The Chicago space may be very lucky to boast at the least one nice Italian beef joint in each neighborhood. It’s a veritable embarrassment of Italian beef riches, or ought to I say Italian beef ‘aus jus!’ For me, I’m fortunate to have a Fontano’s proper across the nook from my residence in Beverly (an in any other case critically restaurant-deprived space): dipped in great bread with house-made giardiniera and melted provolone…sorry, now I’ve to expire and get one this second!”
Donna writes:
“I grew up within the SW facet and our household’s particular dinner deal with was going to Novi’s Beef in Berwyn. My brother even acquired his first job there. We’d order it by the pound with an entire loaf of crispy Italian bread for all 4 of us. The au jus is spicier than your customary Portillo’s or Johnny’s. Dipped with candy peppers is the perfect! Mates who nonetheless stay shut by have it catered for events.”
Brian writes:
“Greatest beef on the town is Paternos on Northwest facet — unbelievable sandwich fingers down. Garlic bread, gobs of beef, the correct quantity of cheese — chef’s kiss!”
And Patrick writes:
“I do know the Southwest Facet is the red-headed stepchild of the town (I can say that; I’m a ginger) however Tony’s Beef at 7007 S Pulaski within the West Garden neighbourhood has the perfect beef sandwich within the metropolis. Don’t give quick shrift to their meatball sandwich both! I all the time get mine with double candy peppers. Nice meals, wonderful service, good costs in a small, unpretentious, old-school location in a working class neighborhood. What may very well be extra Chicago?”
Thanks for all of the responses this week! I couldn’t run all of them, nevertheless it’s clear we have now an abundance of nice Italian beef.
