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Grassroots Movement Is Resisting Corporate Grab Of Water Systems

August 2, 2026 Francis Madeson, Truthout. , , ,
The road from public ownership of a municipal water system to privatization is a one-way street paved with regret. Once public ownership is lost, it’s a rarity to recover control. Bolingbrook, Illinois, has been trying to for the last 15 years. Missoula, Montana, is one extraordinary success story, but it took sustained public support, political will across administrations, costly decades in the courts, and ultimately hardball tactics like the invocation of eminent domain. In southern Illinois, an ad hoc people’s movement is going after government officials who are trying to smooth-talk residents toward the edge of the privatization bluff.

States Can Make Big Tech Pay Their Fair Share

August 2, 2026 Shaddi Zeid, Inequality.org. , , ,
A year ago, Congress and President Trump deeply slashed taxes on corporations and the rich. Those cuts were funded by historic cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, education and many other programs our communities rely on. Today, those cuts have left many states badly in need of new revenue sources. Illinois may have found one — and other states should pay attention. This June, Illinois lawmakers passed a tax on the digital advertising revenue of corporations like Google, Meta, and Amazon. These companies make billions selling targeted online advertisements based on the content you click on — while contributing relatively little to the public good or systems that make those profits possible. 

Union Coalition Brings ‘Billionaires Tax’ Proposal To Illinois

May 30, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , ,
Chicago - The “billionaires tax” idea, which has been gaining support in several states—including Washington state, where it’s now law—has come to Illinois, courtesy Chicago-area unions. After a morning press conference in Chicago, busloads of members of the Chicago Teachers Union, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Cook County College Teachers Union Local 1600, SEIU Local 73, the Illinois Federation of Teachers, Warehouse Workers for Justice, and assorted progressive Chicago-area community groups descended on the state capital of Springfield.

Officials And Activists Are Working To Overturn Illinois’s Anti-BDS Law

May 11, 2026 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. , , ,
Since 2014, U.S. lawmakers have introduced over 200 bills targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The vast majority of these efforts have failed to pass, but more than 30 states have adopted anti-BDS laws. The first state-based measure to take specific action against Israel boycotts was passed in Illinois in 2015; 49-0 in the Senate and 102-0 in the House. “This historic legislation is an important first step in the fight against boycotts of Israel and I hope other states move quickly to follow our lead,” declared then-Governor Bruce Rauner after signing it into law.

Residents Victorious In Fight To Stop Pekin, Illinois Data Center

March 15, 2026 Nicholis Hall, People's World. , ,
Pekin, IL — Residents celebrated a victory Tuesday night as Mayor Mary Burress announced that Pekin City Council does not plan to move forward with approval for a proposed AI data center. Burress was greeted with applause by those in attendance as she read off her statement indicating the council was nixing the facility. “When a project creates this level of uncertainty and division, it is important for us to step back to consider whether moving forward is truly the right path,” Buress told the crowd. Zoey Carter, who is running for the Illinois State House in District 93, expressed gratitude for the decision, highlighting the various reasons the community opposed the data center.

UIC Students Host Victory Rally After Kicking TPUSA Off Campus

March 12, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Chicago, IL – On March 4, 30 students rallied in the quad at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). The protest, organized by New Students for a Democratic Society, was originally a counter-protest meant to happen at the same time as a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) event. TPUSA announced a “Prove me Wrong” event featuring Pastor Lucas Miles, who has a record of anti-immigrant rhetoric. Immediately after TPUSA’s announcement, SDS organized a counter-protest with the slogan, “Tell TPUSA Immigrants are Welcomed Here!” The night before the morning rally, TPUSA shared on social media that they were canceling the event “due to weather.”

Illinois’ Low-Cost Library Program Takes On The Justice Gap

February 8, 2026 Sidnee King Pineda, Next City. , , ,
Last fall, when an anxious patron rushed into the Addison Public Library asking how to file a court document, Sara Lock felt prepared. She’d grown up depending on the library herself and had just completed training so she could help people facing the court system alone. “It was just a coincidence that worked out well,” Lock recalled. Lock sat with the woman for an hour in one of the west suburban library’s computer labs and helped her craft an email to court officials to move the woman’s case forward. Lock couldn’t remember all the details of the woman’s case, and she and her co-workers say they prefer it that way – hoping a degree of obscurity will keep patrons coming back for free help.

Detroiters Demand City Council Ban ICE From Communities

January 15, 2026 Noelle Belanger, People's World. , , , ,
Detroit—Demonstrating through the bitter cold, Detroiters rallied at the Spirit of Detroit statue on Tuesday before a City Council meeting to demand an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in their communities. The action centered on a resolution submitted by Councilmember Gabriela Santiago-Romero that would prohibit ICE from schools, religious institutions, clinics, and all city property. “If our neighbors are not safe and free, then we are not safe and free,” said Board of Police Commissioner Victoria Camille of District 7, who joined the action. “Immigration status matters should not be handled with masks, guns, chemical spray, battering rams, and handcuffs.

Chicago Budget Fight: Corporate Interests Clash With Working-Class

December 22, 2025 Gabriel Miller, Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Chicago, IL – Corporate-backed alderpersons pushed through an unbalanced budget to avoid taxing big businesses on Saturday, December 20, but conceded important measures after sustained pressure from working-class Chicagoans. The final budget package, championed by conservative council members, promises to sell to private debt collectors nearly $100 million debt from water bills, parking tickets and ambulance fees. It also increases liquor and gambling taxes and sells city spaces for advertising. These measures, which have been assessed as fiscally irresponsible by the city’s budget experts, are the last ditch effort by the group of oppositional alderpersons who have fought to avoid instituting a corporate head tax, in which the largest 3% of corporations would pay less than a thousandth of a percent of their profits based on the number of workers they employ.

Horseshoe Indianapolis Dealers Resist Repression In Fourth Week Of Strike

November 10, 2025 Fight Back! News. , , ,
Shelbyville, IN - The strike for union recognition at the Horseshoe Indianapolis Casino has now entered its fourth week, marking more than 23 days on the picket line for table games dealers and dual rate dealers. These workers, who greet one another each day with the call-and-response “One day longer” and “One day stronger,” are carrying out one of the most significant and courageous private-sector labor battles in modern Indiana history, and one of the only major recognition strikes seen in the United States in decades. Their struggle is being closely watched across the state and around the country. The dealers and dual rates are fighting to preserve their rights, defend free speech, and win democratic recognition in the face of corporate union-busting, a federal shutdown, and now an unprecedented attempt by the city of Shelbyville to help Caesars Entertainment crush the strike by forcibly removing lawfully picketing workers from public land.

Eviction By ICE?

October 27, 2025 Rebecca Burns, In These Times. , , , ,
Rodrick Johnson, 67, had just returned home from a trip to the hospital and was trying to get some rest. But in the early hours of September 30, bright lights suddenly flooded his apartment. A fleet of Black Hawk helicopters descended on his five-story building — a 130-unit apartment complex at 7500 South Shore Drive — shortly before armed, masked men stormed past the doors of the ground floor. “The next thing I knew, they were kicking my door in,” Johnson says. He and dozens of his neighbors were marched outside at gunpoint during the multiagency raid carried out by some 300 federal agents in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. Black and Latino residents were zip-tied, separated by race and detained inside cargo vans, as South Side Weekly reported in the raid’s aftermath.

Judge Bars ICE Attacks On Journalists And Protesters While Hearing Lawsuit

October 11, 2025 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , , , ,
United States District Judge Sara Ellis issued a temporary restraining order to prevent attacks by federal agents on journalists or non-violent protesters. She instructed agents to wear “visible identification” on their uniforms or helmets. Also, Ellis restricted the use of crowd control weapons on journalists, protesters, or clergy, including a prohibition against shooting individuals “to strike the head, neck, groin, spine, or female breast, or striking any person with a vehicle.” The order [PDF], which applies to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies, will remain in force for two weeks while a court reviews a lawsuit alleging significant First Amendment violations.

The 13th Largest Army In World Is Unleashing Violence In Chicago

October 6, 2025 Sarah Lazare and Lindsay Koshgarian, In These Times. , , , , ,
If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Canada, Turkey and Spain — and just below Israel. That bloated force is due to a massive funding increase in President Donald Trump’s budget bill that went into effect October 1, and it comes as Chicagoland faces an escalation of violence from ICE and other federal agencies. Agents are tear gassing and beating protesters, raiding and ransacking communities across the area, and detaining people at homeless shelters and hospitals. They are roaming the city and surrounding suburbs in masks, sometimes in plain clothes and unmarked cars, and other times — especially near protests — in armored vehicles, wearing the militarized, camouflage uniforms that are the hallmark of soldiers.

Caravan Of Justice Seeks To Chase ICE Out Of Dupage And Elgin

September 23, 2025 Casa Dupage Workers Center, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Wheaton IL - With Operation Midway Blitz intensifying, seeing ICE terror inflicted across the area across Dupage and Kane County, particularly West Chicago and Elgin, Casa Dupage Workers Center 501c3 along with local allies from houses of worship and from the community with carry out a Caravan of Justice of dozens of cars, to show ICE that the streets of Dupage and Kane County belong to the residents of our County including our hard working Latino immigrants who are being targeted by ICE. The Caravan is a tradition in which cars, decorated with flags and placards, join together to travel the county, and in case of ICE raids, be able to respond with a mass of people ready to protest and protect our County’s most vulnerable, local Latinos working construction sites, restaurants, landscaping jobs and at area factories and warehouses.

‘We’re Going In’: Trump Moves To Deploy Troops To Chicago

September 4, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , ,
After weeks of threats, US President Donald Trump officially announced that he is sending federal forces to the US city of Chicago. On September 2, Trump declared his intent to send federal troops, including National Guard personnel, to Chicago to address rising crime, stating: “We’re going in. I didn’t say when, but we’re going in.” On Tuesday, Trump claimed in a post on Truth Social that Chicago is “the worst and most dangerous city in the World, by far.” Chicago is not the most dangerous city in the world or even the nation in terms of violent crime and homicide. Chicago’s overall violent crime rate remains higher than the national average, but it’s seeing a steady decline.
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