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At the same time, the coalition, which includes such organizations as the Lugenia Burns Hope Center, Pilsen Alliance and Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, said the bill’s passage in the Senate “proves there is overwhelming consensus that Chicago’s experiment with mayoral control has been an abysmal failure, especially for the district’s Black and Brown families.”
The new initiative — which is arriving five years after Jackson created the Office of Student Protections and Title IX, aims to ensure every CPS school offers students and educators equitable, inclusive and safe learning and working environments that are free from sexual harassment and misconduct and discrimination based on race, ability, sex and gender, officials said.
North Aurora police officers were called to Woodman’s, 151 Hansen Blvd., at 5:23 p.m. Tuesday for two gunshot victims. A 17-year-old boy was taken to the hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound to his neck and a 26-year-old man was taken to the hospital in fair condition with a gunshot wound to his leg, police said.
Each state is given a score out of 100 points that is calculated on the basis of 20 economic, legislative and cultural indicators of LGBTQ climate and inclusiveness in five categories: legal and nondiscrimination protections, youth and family support, political and religious attitudes, health access and safety, and work environment and employment. The categories assessed, for example, whether states had gender markers on birth certificates, the frequency of hate crimes, unemployment rates, anti-discrimination protections, and public health measures such as food security, wage gaps, mental wellness and access to gender-affirming medical care.
This year, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, and several local and national celebrities will march with the children. The parade will take place in conjunction with the traditional family festival in Washington Park, next to Dyett High School, and feature food, activities, entertainment and giveaways for students.
“This pandemic isn’t over, and there are many, many people who have not been vaccinated yet,” the governor said today. “I talked a little bit about the fact that more than two-thirds of people in Illinois have been vaccinated, but that leaves a third and we are not at herd immunity, where we need to get to. So we’re doing everything at the state level to try to incentivize people to go get vaccinated. Many companies have offered incentives to people, to get them vaccinated. People are beginning to take us up on those. We have, as you know, tickets — free tickets, for people who want to go to Six Flags Great America. We have now a beer and a shot or a shot and a shot for the rest of us and lots of other incentives coming, including potentially a vaccine lottery.”
“Our hospitality industry has been hit particularly hard by the pandemic,” said state Rep. Mike Zalewski, a Riverside Democrat, and the new law “contains a number of initiatives designed to offer much-needed help, including an extension of cocktails to-go and ‘shot and a beer’ incentives to help Illinoisans get vaccinated and then visit their favorite establishment for a drink.”
BUDDY, the Cultural Center’s first in-house store, sells goods from local artisans in collaboration with the Public Media Institute, according to the store’s director, Stella Brown. BUDDY features up-and-coming artists selected from the networks of artists and open applications, Brown said. Additionally, the store hosts rotating exhibitions, performances and workshops, she said.
Oswego police have concluded their initial investigation into a fight that happened in the drive-thru lane of a Portillo’s restaurant in the village and have turned their findings over to the Kendall County State’s Attorney’s Office. (Megan Jones / The Beacon-News)
Nish was identified by a colored star marking given to last year’s chicks to represent the Chicago flag. He and two female plovers from Pennsylvania were spotted at Maumee by late May, but some birders believed he was stopping in Ohio on his way to another locale, perhaps Michigan. The young plover, taking after his parents, decided to go for a first, settling down along the Lake Erie shore at a halfway point between Chicago and Presque Isle, where his mate hatched.