CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 5 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, a district bank in the Federal Home Loan Bank System, issued the following news on Dec. 4, 2023: The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago (FHLBank Chicago) today announced that it has awarded more than $33 million to help finance 44 housing projects and developments across Illinois and Wisconsin through its Affordable Housing Program (AHP) General Fund. These grant funds will support the acquisition, rehabilitation, and new constr  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2023: From the Guide to 2010 State and Local Census Geography - Illinois - History: The area of Illinois was part of the original territory of the United States, being part of lands ceded by four states to the United States and designated in 1787 as the "Territory northwest of the River Ohio." Illinois Territory was organized on February 3, 1809, from the western part of India  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Dec. 5 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release: Attorney General Ashley Moody and a coalition of attorneys general issued a warning to media companies with possible ties to foreign terrorist organizations. Attorney General Moody and the coalition sent a letter reminding the publisher of the New York Times, the CEO of the Associated Press, the CEO and editor in chief of CNN and the president of Reuters that providing material support to te  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 5 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Dec. 4, 2023: Today, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird led a coalition of 14 states in a letter demanding that big news media make sure that they are not paying journalists with ties to terrorist organizations like Hamas. Following the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that brutally murdered more than 1,400 men, women, and children, reports revealed that several news media outlets had employed  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 5 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Dec. 4, 2023: Today, Governor Maura T. Healey, joined by the other Executive Committee governors of the Reproductive Freedom Alliance - California Governor Gavin Newsom, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper - and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, called on U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra a  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 5 -- The Chicago Department of Transportation issued the following news release on Dec. 4, 2023: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson today joined the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT), 28th Ward Alderman Jason Ervin, 27th Ward Alderman Walter Burnett, and community leaders to unveil newly installed pedestrian and bike safety improvements on Central Park Avenue in Garfield Park. The project, which extends from Madison Street to Franklin Boulevard, includes new protect  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The National Council on Disability issued the following news on Dec. 4, 2023: The National Council on Disability (NCD) has lost its Chairman Andres J. Gallegos, 62, of Illinois, who passed away Dec. 1. Chairman Gallegos led NCD, an independent, non-partisan federal agency responsible for making recommendations on national disability policy to the President, Congress, federal agencies, state, territorial, tribal and local authorities. U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois  more

PEORIA, Illinois, Dec. 5 -- The Illinois National Guard issued the following news: Illinois Army National Guard Col. Jason Osberg of Champaign has been awarded the Legion of Merit. Osberg, a civilian airline pilot, retired from the Army in August after more than 33 years of service including as an aviation lift company commander in Iraq and as an operations officer in Kosovo . His last assignment was as Commander of the Peoria-based 65th Troop Command Brigade. The 65th oversees an artillery b  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Dec. 5 -- The Illinois National Guard issued the following news: By Barbara Wilson, Illinois National Guard Public Affairs Office The year was 1990 and a future Illinois National Guard member watched Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm unfold on national television and was inspired to "do something that means something." "I had graduated high school and knew I wanted to go to college but didn't know how I was going to pay for it because my parents couldn't afford it,"   more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Dec. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois issued the following news release: A Springfield, Illinois, woman, Lerin E. Hughes, 25, was sentenced on November 30, 2023, to 42 months' imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, following her conviction for cyberstalking. At the jury trial before U.S. District Judge Colleen R. Lawless, the government presented evidence to establish that Hughes repeatedly made threate  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois issued the following news release on Dec. 4, 2023: Two men have been indicted in federal court in an alleged murder-for-hire conspiracy that resulted in a fatal shooting in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood. ANTHONY MONTGOMERY-WILSON, 24, and PRESTON POWELL, 23, both of Chicago, are charged with conspiracy to use an interstate facility in the commission of a murder for hire, according to an indictm  more