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Gone is any excuse for silence. CRT is in our schools due only to a loud and aggressive minority concentrated in today’s political, educational and media establishments. It will be driven into the obscurity it deserves if the majority continues to speak up.
With a public price tag already exceeding $300 million, the 23-year-long effort to rejuvenate the area around the former public housing project is set to take at least 12 more years and could approach a total of nearly $1 billion.
Home price appreciation in Northwest Indiana exceeded that in the broader Chicago metro of which the Region is a part. The Chicago-Evanston-Naperville metro placed 90th nationwide with 9.6% growth in home prices last year.
Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker (D.) signed a bill this week to change the titles for elected officials in the state from “alderman” and “congressman” to “alderperson” and “congressperson” to be more gender-inclusive.
“We see a lot of ‘hes’ and ‘hims’” in state statute, said the bill’s co-sponsor, State Representative Maurice West (D).
“The recent wrangling over the governor’s massive energy agenda in Springfield is a case in point, but it’s only the latest example of decision-making at the highest levels that includes everyone but those who will have to pick up the tab. No one on Team Pritzker, it seems, consistently stands up for the business community.”
“Part of me still believes in the healing power of spirited dialogue; still has faith in the capacity of the frank exchange of views to promote understanding, respect and possibly even lasting compromise.”
“Here’s something you can bet on: If politicians reach a deal, your electric bill will rise. Any legislation that passes almost certainly will include costly new subsidies for nuclear reactors and additional surcharges for renewable power development. Those proposals and others on the table would cost Illinois residents and businesses nearly $3 billion in the next five years alone.”
The town of Evanston, Illinois, is holding Pride and Juneteenth parades during the month of June, but canceling July 4 fireworks and Independence Day festivities.
Robin Rue Simmons, a former Evanston alderman, is perhaps at the vanguard of one fight for racial justice. Rue Simmons, whose term ended in May, led Evanston’s effort to implement reparations.She spoke with WBEZ’s Odette Yousef about how, on this Juneteenth holiday, she is thinking about the groundbreaking work she has embarked on.
Pritzker has used the veto just 11 times as governor.
“The Tribune has offered me and many others a separation agreement. This is my last column for the Chicago Tribune…I still have a few spears left to throw. Let’s see what happens.”
Residents in one Chicago ward are “giving up” on calling the police as the city fails to protect them from violent crime, according to one city council member.
“Generational gang life isn’t just something that’s encouraged. It’s almost revered in some neighborhoods,” Lopez, whose constituents are about 67% Latino and 22% black, told the Washington Examiner in an interview. “If you really want to get to what is at the heart of a lot of this, it is gangs, and it is the borderline collapse of the family unit in
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