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The turnaround model involved taking over low-performing public schools, firing and rehiring staff. As AUSL Executive Director Donald Feinstein, a former CPS principal, once wrote in letter published in the Tribune, “When students return to their neighborhood school in the fall, they have a new principal, new teachers, new curriculum and after-school programs, and a new culture of high expectations.”
“Under the timeline for the currently scheduled March 15, 2022, primary, candidates could begin circulating their nominating petitions to appear on the ballot at the end of August, with filing set to begin on Nov. 22. If lawmakers don’t approve a congressional map until sometime in the fall, as expected, that would leave little time to qualify for the ballot under the current timetable.”
It was In Charleston, South Carolina, and the city’s Black residents had already reburied the Union soldiers who had died in a POW camp there. There, on May 1, 1865, three weeks after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, a parade of 10,000, led by 3,000 Black schoolchildren singing a Union marching song, commemorated the soldiers who had given their lives as “martyrs” for the cause of human freedom.
The city of Chicago in 2016, proclaimed that May 28 was Robert Williams Day in recognition of his work that solidified Chicago as a house music beacon. But by the time Chicago’s house music community got around to honoring Williams, it was 2020 and the city was in the midst of a pandemic. Finally on Friday, from 6 to 9 p.m., fellow house music lovers can come to 610 W. Root St. to sign the official proclamation. But even if you don’t know Williams, you might know this city’s famed dance club the Warehouse.
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Through May 23, 239 people were slain in Chicago, a jump of about 22% over the same time last year, when there were 196 homicides, according to official Chicago Police Department statistics. Total shooting victims also were up by double digits, with 1,295 people nonfatally or fatally struck by gunfire compared with 940 last year, an increase of roughly 38%, the statistics through May 23 show.
Harrison was charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury, level 3 felony, domestic battery resulting in serious bodily injury to an endangered adult, level 4 felony, domestic battery resulting against an endangered adult resulting in bodily injury, level 5 felony, neglect of a dependent resulting in bodily injury, level 5 felony, domestic battery against an endangered adult, level 6 felony, neglect of a dependent, level 6 felony, and domestic battery, class A misdemeanor.
A man was seen tossing a gun out of the Hellcat as it slowed on the Cline Avenue ramp, another state trooper said. The driver, later identified as Evans, jumped out of the passenger side door, while the car was slowing to a halt, climbed up the wall and jumped off the exit ramp, documents state.
A sheriff’s deputy spotted Bahena Rivera, who worked at a local dairy farm, driving the distinctive vehicle the next day. During a lengthy interrogation that began Aug. 20, 2018, Bahena Rivera said that he drove past Tibbetts while she was running and turned around to get another look because he found her attractive.
Under the timeline for the currently scheduled March 15, 2022 primary, candidates could begin circulating their nominating petitions to appear on the ballot at the end of August, with filing set to begin on Nov. 22. If lawmakers don’t approve a congressional map until sometime in the fall, as expected, that would leave little time to qualify for the ballot under the current timetable.