Monday, January 19, 2026

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consumer-affairs
  • by david hall
Fruit, veggies at Chicago-area farmers markets could be hurt due to cold snaps this spring

The wild temperature swings might affect supplies in particular of apples, peaches and nectarines as well as other summer produce, farmers say.

city-hall
  • by david hall
Chicago’s homeless population increased threefold, a city snapshot shows, owing largely to migrants

The city’s annual point-in-time count showed nearly 19,000 people were unhoused on a single night in January.

the-watchdogs
  • by david hall
PPP fraud was fueled in part by brokers taking kickbacks but escaping punishment, Sun-Times finds

In one case, the CHA revoked a rent voucher for a woman accused of getting fraudulent loans through the Paycheck Protection Program that a broker on Facebook offered to arrange. And six fired Illinois state workers also said they kicked back some of their loans. But the people arranging them…

Politics
  • by david hall
“Not the Career in Public Service I Signed Up For”: Federal Workers Protest War

Government employees are using their official badges to demonstrate against U.S. support for Israel’s war on Gaza.