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The state board also recently mailed warning letters to the superintendents of seven public, community unit school districts in Illinois — Red Bud CUSD 132, Carlyle CUSD 1, Benton CCSD 47, Durand CUSD 322, Patoka CUSD 100, Warsaw CUSD 316 and Spoon River Valley CUSD 4 — reducing their recognition status to “on probation,” Matthews said.
A day-by-day, year-by-year dig into the archives of the Chicago Reader, 1971-2021. All leading up to our 50th anniversary in October.
The National Weather Service’s Chicago office issued a combined 45 severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings from Monday through Thursday. That included the 13 tornado warnings, all of which were issued Monday as well as two severe thunderstorm warnings that day. There were 11 severe thunderstorm warnings issued Tuesday, 13 on Wednesday and six on Thursday.
“Once they came to the bus, you kind of knew what it was, but you’re kind of hoping that’s not what it is,” Jones said. “We just had to wait it out. The guys who were out, we’re just glad to be back in the building with everyone. Five days is a lot to miss during training camp, so we were anxious to get back out here to be around the guys and just learn more.”
The remainder of the funds were distributed with the assistance of a dozen, diverse external advisers who helped the Foundation focus giving to a majority of organizations that are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-led or -serving. Chicago-based grantees include (among others): The United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, the Latino Policy Forum to support Illinois Unidos, a collaborative COVID-19 vaccine access and public health initiative, and the Barack Obama Foundation who received $5 million to develop programming space within the Obama Presidential Center that will focus on leadership training, racial healing and civic engagement on Chicago’s South Side.
The remainder of the funds were distributed with the assistance of a dozen, diverse external advisers who helped the Foundation focus giving to a majority of organizations that are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-led or -serving. Chicago-based grantees include (among others): The United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, the Latino Policy Forum to support Illinois Unidos, a collaborative COVID-19 vaccine access and public health initiative, and the Barack Obama Foundation who received $5 million to develop programming space within the Obama Presidential Center that will focus on leadership training, racial healing and civic engagement on Chicago’s South Side.
Spencer, a football player who has played three seasons with Austria’s Dacia Vienna Vikings, was sent home during the seventh week of Katie Thurston’s season of “The Bachelorette,” just one week before the process known as Hometown Dates. Spencer’s family was already quarantining in New Mexico, where the show was filmed, when Spencer was sent home by Thurston with a heart-wrenching goodbye.
Kate Davis, who is pregnant, said she called off a trip to visit a friend in Colorado in August and another trip to a friend’s wedding in Boston in September because of concerns over the delta variant of the COVID-19 virus, Aug. 13, 2021. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Personally, having visited the old minor-league ballpark in Durham, N.C., used in Costner’s greatest baseball flick, “Bull Durham,” I’d like to see a “Bull Durham Game” with clips and stories of the making of the film from Costner (Crash Davis), Tim Robbins (Nuke LaLoosh) and Susan Sarandon (Annie Savoy).
The mandate covers all Chicago Board of Education workers, which includes school-based teachers and staff, central office, regular vendors and network employees. The announcement comes just over two weeks before CPS is set to welcome students back for full-time, in-person learning starting Aug. 30.