What’s it like inside the perimeter at a national political convention?
Here’s a thread with a little glimpse of what’s coming to Chicago next month
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/1 The soft perimeter is open to pedestrians. Any vehicles that want to enter must go through designated check points where a full inspection happens by Secret Service. They open the hood, look in the windows and run the dog around. The line for this can be hours long
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.@GovPritzker is about to deliver his 6th State of the State/budget address and tell lawmakers how he will raise revenue to continue to support spending priorities. Follow along here for updates #twill @GovPritzker First proposal of the speech from Pritzker: Put $150M toward his signature Smart Start program in year 2 to create 5,000 more PreK seats. He also wants to begin creating the Dept. of Early Childhood Education in the FY25 budget #twill

A few hundred people in Springfield for the annual March for Life. It’s the event’s first time outside Chicago as organizers want to take the message straight to lawmakers post-Dobbs #twill Springfield Bishop @BishopPaprocki speaking. He condemns Gov Pritzker and other Democratic leaders directly for pushing abortion expansions. “We cannot relax our pro-life efforts now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.” #twill

Should Chicago get a 3rd cargo-specific airport? A bill by Rep. Will Davis that could be voted on this week attempts to let the long-proposed project take flight🛫 #twill
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thedailyline.com/bill-help-long… Rep. Will Davis: “I think they’ve quietly said ‘if it’s there, we’ll use it'...they’ll take advantage of the efficiencies involved in landing those freights a little closer to where they’re ultimately going to distribute it from.” 2/7