The Lake County Council passed a resolution Tuesday to urge the state legislature to pass a bill to disclose the specific fees hidden in utility bill delivery charges.

The resolution calls on the Indiana General Assembly to enact legislation requiring electric and natural gas utilities operating in Indiana to provide a clear, itemized breakdown of all components of the delivery charge on customer bills.

The council further urged the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to adopt rules, guidelines or tariff requirements to ensure the itemized breakdown appears in a standardized, consumer-friendly format on monthly bills. The resolution passed the council in a 6-0 vote.

Dozens of Northwest Indiana residents protested outside of the Northern Indiana Public Service Company’s Hammond district office on Feb. 1. Most of the protesters were concerned with high gas delivery charges, according to Post-Tribune archives.

In June, NIPSCO received Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission approval to increase electric rates by 16.75%, according to the utility’s website, and residential customers were expected to see an increase of about $23 per month. The rate changes began in July, and the utility company previously said that rate changes would be phased in “to help ease the impact,” according to Post-Tribune archives.

In July, the Citizens Action Coalition found that statewide electric utility bills have increased by more than $28 per month, or 17.5%. NIPSCO residential customers were hit hardest, with about a $50 per month, or 26.7% increase, in one year, according to Post-Tribune archives.

“At the NIPSCO protest in Hammond, I spoke with residents who desperately needed clarity on what exactly makes up those delivery costs. Like anyone purchasing a service, I want the breakdown clear: labor, fees, infrastructure, materials and so on,” said Council President Christine Cid, D-5th.

The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission is tasked with ensuring that utilities are provided to Hoosiers at a reasonable cost, which is “what a rational person would pay in a competitive market,” Cid said.

“Unfortunately, NIPSCO operates as a monopoly. It’s the only choice for electric and gas service in our area,” Cid said. “In government, reasonable costs are defined to ensure proper stewardship of public funds. Excessive or unnecessary expenses, even if allowable, can be deemed unreasonable.”

The cost of utilities, food, medicine and housing should be affordable, Cid said. People shouldn’t have to “choose between groceries and sitting in the dark or without heat in the winter.”

“The IURC, as a public servant agency, has the responsibility to demand transparency and delivery costs in a way that’s simple and understandable,” Cid said.

Cid called for the members of the IURC, which she said has a budget of over $13 million and commissioners earning $158,000 each, to be elected.

State Rep. Chuck Moseley, D-Portage, proposed a bill during this session that would’ve allowed voters to elect IURC members. It did not advance beyond the session halfway point because it wasn’t heard in committee.

Councilman Randy Niemeyer, R-7th, said he received his utility bill Monday and it cost $2,800 to heat three small buildings for his business. The thermostats were set at 58 degrees, Niemeyer said, so “we’re not talking about heating it to summer temperatures,” he said.

“It’s impacting small business, residents and government. By the end of this year, we’re going to have to come up with probably a seven-figure number to pay some of the things that weren’t budgeted for NIPSCO,” Niemeyer said.

Niemeyer said there is “a serious transparency issue” with utility rates.

“I think all of us as ratepayers understand that improvement to infrastructure costs more money, but we want to know where that money is going,” Niemeyer said.

akukulka@post-trib.com

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/11/lake-county-council-passes-resolution-calling-for-transparency-in-utility-bill-delivery-charges/ 

Real Estate Services Stocks Crash In Latest “AI Scare Trade”

Tyler Durden
Wed, 02/11/2026 – 15:35

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/real-estate-stocks-crash-latest-ai-scare-trade 

Por STEVE MEGARGEE

El veterano catcher Gary Sánchez llegó a un acuerdo para firmar por un año y 1,75 millones de dólares con los Cerveceros de Milwaukee, informó el miércoles a The Associated Press una persona familiarizada con la situación.

La persona habló con la AP bajo condición de anonimato porque el acuerdo no ha sido anunciado. The New York Post informó primero sobre el acuerdo.

El pelotero dominicano de 33 años, jugó para los Cerveceros en 2024 y bateó para .220 con un porcentaje de embase de .307, 11 jonrones y 37 carreras impulsadas en 89 juegos, como suplente del receptor venezolano William Contreras, dos veces All-Star, y con algo de tiempo de juego como bateador designado.

Sánchez, dos veces elegido al Juego de Estrellas, pasó el año pasado con los Orioles de Baltimore y bateó para .231 con un porcentaje de embasarse de .297, cinco jonrones y 24 carreras impulsadas en 29 juegos.

Sánchez ha bateado para .224 con un porcentaje de embasarse de .309, 189 jonrones y 509 carreras impulsadas en 859 juegos de temporada regular en su carrera con Yankees de Nueva York (2015-21), los Mellizos de Minnesota (2022), Mets de Nueva York (2023), Padres de San Diego (2023), Cerveceros y Orioles.

Quedó segundo detrás de Michael Fulmer, de Detroit, en la votación al Novato del Año de la Liga Americana en 2016. Sánchez integró los equipos All-Star de la Liga Americana con los Yankees en 2017 y 2019.

Antes de este movimiento, los únicos receptores en el roster de 40 jugadores de Milwaukee eran Contreras y el prospecto de 23 años Jeferson Quero, quien no ha aparecido en un juego de Grandes Ligas.

Los Cerveceros también firmaron el mes pasado al receptor Reese McGuire con un contrato de ligas menores y una invitación al campamento de Grandes Ligas. McGuire, que cumple 31 años el 2 de marzo, bateó para .226 con un porcentaje de embasarse de .245, nueve jonrones y 24 carreras impulsadas en 44 juegos con los Cachorros de Chicago la temporada pasada.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/11/gary-snchez-acuerda-contrato-de-175-millones-por-un-ao-con-los-cerveceros-segn-fuente-ap/ 

Shortly after Mrs. Hedda Tesman, née Hedda Gabler, returns from her honeymoon, she complains that every room in her new marital home “reeks of lavender and roses,” carrying an inescapable whiff of death. In Remy Bumppo Theatre Company’s new production of Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 play, directed by Marti Lyons, the design team takes this line to heart, using a monochrome purple palette to represent Hedda’s claustrophobic world (scenic design by Joe Schermoly). As she seethes against the confines of a conventional middle-class marriage, flashes of red in the costumes (Kotryna Hilko) and props (Amanda Herrmann) nod to her fiery spirit and hint at dark events to come.

Hedda is a slippery, confounding protagonist, and Aurora Real de Asua takes on the role with quietly manic energy. Wound as tightly as a grandfather clock, she tends to stare hauntingly into the distance until her angst overflows in the form of caustic barbs and panicked gestures. Real de Asua’s intonation as she delivers Ibsen’s text (adapted by Christopher Shinn from the literal translation by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey) sounds sharp and modern in contrast to the rest of the cast, who take a slightly more formal tone. Composer and sound designer Christopher Kriz’s transitional music amplifies Hedda’s restless internal state with electric guitar and drums backed by a relentless, clock-like beat.

While the production design has a clearly discernible vision, several of the characters have room to grow in Remy Bumppo’s staging. Caught up in a messy lust quadrangle, Hedda is often surrounded by men: her sincere if stodgy husband, the historian Jorgen Tesman (Eduardo Curley), and two former suitors who are still determined to seduce the newly married woman, slimy Judge Brack (Greg Matthew Anderson) and dissolute academic Ejlert Lövborg (Felipe Carrasco). In her scenes with each of them, Hedda’s motivations feel murky as she ping-pongs between flirtation, disgust, fear and anger. Perhaps the point is that it’s difficult for a woman with little agency to truly know her own feelings, but there could be more clarity in the production’s point of view about these relationships.

Making for a symmetrical cast list, the play also features three female supporting roles: Miss Juliane Tesman (Annabel Armour), Hedda’s elderly aunt-in-law; Berte (Linda Gillum), the longtime family maid, and Mrs. Thea Elvsted (Gloria Imseih Petrelli), Tesman’s old flame and Hedda’s former schoolmate. Hedda is at her most dislikable when she encounters other women; she repeatedly insults and rebuffs the kindly Aunt Tesman, while she takes a more wheedling tone in Thea’s case.

The dynamic between Hedda and Thea is the most deeply explored relationship in this production. Though not perfect foils, they serve as two complex examples of how women navigate a society that offers them few options for economic or personal autonomy. Coming from humbler circumstances than Hedda, who is a general’s daughter, Thea previously worked as a governess before marrying her employer, a widower two decades her senior. When Lövborg begins to tutor her stepchildren, she develops a close relationship with him and collaborates as an equal — or, more likely, primary — but unrecognized partner in his successful debut book. At the beginning of the play, Thea leaves her unhappy marriage and follows Lövborg to the city, where she encounters Hedda and Tesman for the first time in years.

Many undertones are at play in this reunion. As Thea’s former suitor, Tesman struggles to call her by her married name, a slip of the tongue that Hedda constantly needles him about. Meanwhile, Hedda attempts to rewrite the history of her school days with Thea, insisting that they were close friends despite Thea’s reminders of Hedda’s bullying. Hedda’s ingratiating approach clumsily masks her own lingering interest in Lövborg, as she tries to get information about her former lover from Thea.

If the above sounds like the stuff of soap operas, that’s not unfair, but of course there’s more going on than romantic rivalries. Thea’s path, while far from smooth, offers a glimpse of what Hedda’s life could have been if she’d found an outlet to pursue her own ambition. Petrelli gives a nuanced performance that emphasizes the meaning that Thea finds in researching and writing alongside Lövborg, even if the academic and publishing worlds have no place for her. Hedda, more interested in the pursuit of beauty than academic knowledge, is less willing to compromise, even if this could have saved her.

Without detracting from Real de Asua’s performance, this “Hedda Gabler” feels more like a story of two women than of Hedda alone, which is apt coming from a strongly feminist director like Lyons. Perhaps this focus explains why Hedda’s relationships with the male characters seem underdeveloped. Regardless, in the end, the Hedda and Thea show works pretty well.

Emily McClanathan is a freelance critic.

Review: “Hedda Gabler” (3 stars)

When: Through March 8

Where: Remy Bumppo Theatre Company at Theater Wit, 1229 W Belmont Ave

Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Tickets: $36-$55 at remybumppo.org

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/11/review-hedda-gabler-remy-bumppo/ 

Apple Slides On Report Latest Attempt To Re-Launch Siri Runs Into “Snags”

Tyler Durden
Wed, 02/11/2026 – 15:20

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/apple-slides-report-latest-attempt-re-launch-siri-runs-snags 

Good afternoon, Chicago.

The Chicago police officers involved in the March 2024 shooting of Dexter Reed were largely cleared of wrongdoing by investigators with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, city records show.

Five officers were involved in the traffic stop that preceded the shooting that left Reed dead and a CPD officer wounded. COPA records show the five faced 15 different allegations of misconduct — civil rights violations, excessive force and a weapons discharge. Of those, just one charge of excessive force was sustained, records show. Available information does not make clear which officer saw the sustained allegation.

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Claire Jakubiszyn, director and founder of Blazing Star School, works with students on pen and ink impressions on Feb. 5, 2026. Blazing Star is a microschool in Chicago, enrolling almost two dozen children, ages 5 to 14. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

‘Free the kids’: Why more Chicago families are turning to homeschooling

The pandemic supercharged interest in alternative education, from microschools, to homeschooling co-ops, to online learning. Years later, many of those kids haven’t returned to traditional classrooms. Read more here.

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Does Billy Donovan want to coach a rebuild? With the Chicago Bulls, he won’t have any other choice.

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Musician and author Nancy Hays, left, and actor Jazzma Pryor rehearse scenes from “Riding for America” at Wayfarer Theaters on Feb. 3, 2026, in Highland Park. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

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In this screengrab from body-camera footage provided by the Othello, Washington, Police Department, police officers arrest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement supervisor Koby Williams in July 2022 during an underage sex sting operation. (Othello Police Department via AP)

Several ICE agents were arrested in recent months, showing risk of misconduct

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/11/afternoon-briefing-cops-in-shooting-of-dexter-reed-largely-cleared-records-show/ 

Concerns about the tax impact on schools and residents led the Lake Station City Council to reject a plan to form a fire territory with New Chicago.

The East Lake Fire Protection Territory would have taken tax money away from the Lake Station Community School Corp. and the River Forest Community Schools, as well as adding another tax for property owners. Many homeowners are already at their property tax cap, leaving other taxing units to support the territory.

“We’re not acting on it, it’s not on the agenda,” City Council President Rick Long, D-5, said Tuesday.

“There’s tons of information we didn’t have. They tried to rush it… We can’t stop them from proposing it but we can kill it again,” he said.

The action halted advertised public hearings on the fire territory in Lake Station. New Chicago has already held one hearing.

New Chicago town manager Sue Pelfrey said her town remains in a difficult position because its volunteer fire department is losing members.

Under the fire territory agreement, the Lake Station Volunteer Fire Department would have provided fire and ambulance service to New Chicago, with taxpayers in both communities sharing the cost.

The overall tax rate would have been about 0.41 cents per $100 assessed valuation.

Lake Station has already been providing ambulance service to New Chicago since January after neighboring Hobart increased its annual fee to $200,000.

Late last year, the Lake Station Board of Works and New Chicago forged a pact calling for Lake Station to provide ambulance service for $50,000 annually, according to Long, who said the contract would be reviewed at the end of the year.

Lake Station Superintendent Thomas Cripliver said Tuesday he understood why communities were looking for other sources of funding to provide fire, police and EMS services.

“I appreciate our elected leaders taking time to understand what the fire district’s impact would be on our taxpayers and schools.

“It is very disappointing to me that communities have to look for other funding sources because of the lack of financial support from our state legislature and governor.”

River Forest Superintendent Kevin Trezak said its fiscal analyst determined his district would lose about $90,000 and Lake Station schools would lose even more if the fire territory gained approval.

“Those were alarming numbers and would have cost the schools jobs and services and would have caused us to delay repairs,” said Trezak.

Lake Station Mayor Bill Carroll blamed Senate Enrolled Act 1, passed last year, for the turmoil. The GOP bill, pushed by Gov. Mike Braun, provides tax relief for property owners but strips millions of tax dollars from schools and municipalities. It particularly impacts school districts and communities with low assessed valuation and little industry.

“Senate Bill 1 changes the rules in a way that hits cities like Lake Station the hardest. It limits local control at the exact moment municipalities are being asked to carry more responsibility with fewer options,” said Carroll.

“That isn’t fairness. That isn’t fiscal responsibility. That’s tying the hands of the people closest to the problem.”

Carole Carlson is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/11/fire-territory-plan-flames-out-in-lake-station-new-chicago/ 

Public Trust In US Government Nears Historic Lows

Tyler Durden
Wed, 02/11/2026 – 15:00

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/public-trust-us-government-nears-historic-lows 

Several hundred high school students from Proviso Township District 209 walked out of their classrooms Wednesday morning in protest of the Trump administration’s continued mass deportation campaign.

Students walked to the sounds of Latin music and honking from passing cars as they made their way down Roosevelt Road to 25th Avenue, just a few blocks away from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview. The facility has been the site of numerous protests in the months since the Trump administration began its immigration crackdown in Chicago dubbed ‘Operation Midway Blitz.’

Chicago has, for months, been the site of anti-ICE protests as the city weathered a monthslong immigration blitz that detained thousands and prompted resistance and solidarity by residents from all walks of life — from documenting detentions and the actions of federal agents to delivering candy on Halloween to those who didn’t feel safe enough to go door-to-door amid the immigration crackdown.

But, lately, students have taken action, organizing walkouts from their classrooms in protest of ICE. Some are going up against the advice of school officials, the police and others in the name of making their communities more aware of what’s been happening, citing personal connections to the recent immigration detentions and a desire to make their voices heard.

This is not the first time local students have organized in opposition to federal immigration enforcement actions. In late October, as the immigration crackdown carried on, hundreds of students in Little Village walked out of class after several people were taken into custody in their neighborhood the week before.

But in recent weeks, student walkouts have been taking hold in a number of communities in and around Chicago after ICE involvement in Minneapolis has garnered national attention, especially following the recent deaths of two American citizens who were shot and killed by immigration officers.

On Feb. 2, hundreds of students on Chicago’s North Side walked out of their classrooms in protest in solidarity with Minnesota and against the immigration crackdown.

The next day, dozens from East Aurora High School marched out of their school in the western suburbs in protest of ICE. Subsequent walkouts occurred in the suburbs in the days following  — in Elgin, Naperville, Waukegan, even Hammond, Ind.

Then, on Wednesday, students from Proviso’s three high schools also took to the street, marching for about two miles from their respective buildings.

The recent actions have generated mixed reactions of support and concern from local school districts and elected officials regarding student safety.

For example, Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson, ahead of Wednesday’s walkout, encouraged Proviso students to hold their protest on school grounds rather than at the Broadview ICE facility.

“Recent events have shown that ICE agents have become increasingly volatile and violent, even resorting to killing American citizens in broad daylight,” Thompson said in a news release. “I want our students to use their voices and exercise their free speech, but I want them to do so where they are safe—within the protective confines of their own school grounds.”

But when the Proviso students arrived at Roosevelt and 25th on Wednesday, they were met with whistles and applause from crossing guards and neighbors.

Gathered on the sidewalk, students proudly waved Mexican, Puerto Rican and Venezuelan flags and chanted, while some sat on their classmates’ shoulders to make their signs more visible to passersby. Others line danced to “Payaso de rodeo,” as students held up signs reading “No one is illegal on stolen land” and “End ICE terror now.”

But questions of student safety have arisen in other communities as the walkouts persist. In Aurora, for example, a student walkout just two days earlier has been drawing criticism after three students were charged in connection with the protest.

According to police, students from several Aurora-area schools entered traffic lanes and blocked vehicles, and threw water bottles at police vehicles during their walkout on Monday. The Aurora Police Department alleges that two students were contributing to the “unsafe conditions,” and attempted to detain them, but a third student reportedly intervened and punched an officer in the head. The department confirmed that the students were from East Aurora High School but did not disclose their identities.

The incident prompted a protest outside the Aurora Police Department’s headquarters on Tuesday night and has drawn criticism on social media and from local elected officials, including State Sen. Karina Villa, D-West Chicago, who is calling for an investigation into the department’s handling of the students.

Also in response to the walkout earlier this week, Aurora Mayor John Laesch, at a City Council meeting on Tuesday, said he admired the student’s efforts to make their voices heard, but urged them to take an “alternative and equally-effective course of action” by getting involved in local rapid response groups or forming their own groups to “strengthen the community response” to federal immigration enforcement agents.

Laesch confirmed that the city of Aurora is investigating the police’s use of force against several protestors, but will not be releasing video footage, as state law generally prevents police from releasing records around juvenile offenders.

East Aurora’s Superintendent Bob Halverson declined to provide further comment on Wednesday. The district has said previously that it doesn’t condone walkouts during the school day, but is providing a location within the high school for students to voice their concerns .

Despite some safety concerns, the students don’t seem to be stopping anytime soon.

On Friday, there are plans for a coordinated national student walkout, according to recent social media posts. In Chicago, for example, organizers have encouraged students to walk out and convene at Federal Plaza on Friday afternoon as part of the national action.

The Beacon-News’ R. Christian Smith contributed.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/11/chicago-students-walkout-protest-ice/ 

Por MONIKA PRONCZUK

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Estados Unidos enviará tropas a Nigeria para entrenar a las fuerzas armadas de la nación de África occidental en la lucha contra el extremismo, informaron las autoridades nigerianas el miércoles, mientras una crisis de seguridad multifacética se extiende en el norte del país.

El personal estadounidense no participará en combate ni tendrá una función operativa directa, y las fuerzas nigerianas mantendrán plena autoridad de mando, señaló en un comunicado el mayor general Samaila Uba, portavoz del Cuartel General de Defensa de Nigeria.

“Por invitación del Gobierno de Nigeria y como continuación de nuestra prolongada cooperación en materia de seguridad y de nuestra alianza militar entre fuerzas armadas con Estados Unidos, Nigeria recibirá a un contingente de personal técnico y de entrenamiento de Estados Unidos”, declaró Uba.

Se esperaba que alrededor de 200 soldados estadounidenses llegaran a Nigeria, indicó un funcionario de Estados Unidos bajo condición de anonimato, porque no estaba autorizado a hablar públicamente del asunto. The Wall Street Journal fue el primer medio en informar sobre el despliegue.

Nigeria ha sido un foco de atención para Washington desde que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, afirmara que el país no protegía a los cristianos de un supuesto genocidio. El gobierno nigeriano rechazó la acusación, y analistas sostienen que es una explicación simplista de una situación muy complicada en la que a menudo se ataca a las personas independientemente de su fe.

En diciembre, las fuerzas de Estados Unidos lanzaron ataques aéreos contra milicianos afiliados al grupo Estado Islámico en el noroeste de Nigeria. El mes pasado, el jefe del Comando de África de Estados Unidos confirmó que un pequeño equipo de oficiales militares estadounidenses está en Nigeria, centrado en apoyo de inteligencia.

Nigeria enfrenta una prolongada lucha contra decenas de grupos armados locales que se disputan el control del territorio, entre ellos, sectas islamistas como Boko Haram, surgido en el país, y su facción escindida, la Provincia de África Occidental del Estado Islámico. También está Lakurawa, vinculada al grupo Estado Islámico, además de otros grupos “bandidos” especializados en secuestros para pedir rescate y en minería ilegal.

Recientemente, la crisis se agravó al incluir a otros milicianos de la vecina región del Sahel, entre ellos, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, que reivindicó su primer ataque en suelo nigeriano el año pasado. Varios miles de personas han muerto en el prolongado conflicto del país, según datos de las Naciones Unidas. Analistas afirman que el gobierno no hace lo suficiente para proteger a sus ciudadanos.

Aunque los cristianos han sido parte de los grupos atacados, analistas y residentes señalan que la mayoría de las víctimas de los grupos armados son musulmanes del norte de Nigeria, de mayoría musulmana, donde ocurre la mayor parte de las agresiones.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/11/eeuu-enviar-tropas-a-nigeria-para-entrenar-a-su-ejrcito-contra-el-extremismo/