The CDC looked at which students had full-time in-person learning, hybrid learning or fully remote learning between September and April. Since January, the study found that in-person learning increased nationally among all groups of students, although white students continued to see the greatest gains in access.

None of the more than $8 billion the state of Illinois got from federal taxpayers is going to the state’s unemployment debt some have projected to be nearly that much.

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“(Secretary of State Jesse) White kept most driver facility offices open starting last summer, but the pandemic created a backlog of people needing license renewals that is now catching up…’We opened fairly quickly for most of pandemic so I’m not sure what else we could have done,’ White spokesman Dave Druker said.”

“The latest complaint comes from Stacy Deemar, a white teacher in a K-8 school district in Evanston and Skokie, IIl., just north of Chicago. She alleges that teachers and students are required to participate in racially segregated antiracist exercises and that teachers are required to teach material depicting white people as inherently racist oppressors.”

ARPA’s allocation methodology favors states with economies that lagged in the recovery late last year, with the majority of dollars based on each state’s share of the nation’s unemployed workers from October through December. Illinois’ unemployment rate was 7.5% last December, which was higher than the national average.

“Combining a CCL and a FOID card I think is a smart idea, and some of this other stuff,” state Rep. Tim Butler told WMAY last month. “But at the end of the day for me, I don’t care if it’s voluntary, because I think eventually, talk about slippery slopes, it starts off voluntary and all of a sudden becomes mandatory, giving your fingerprints to exercise a constitutional right is a real infringement in my mind.”

Beverly Miles, who works at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital after serving 15 years at various Army bases prepping soldiers for deployment, said that without any deep pockets backing her primary challenge, she expects her support to come “from the everyday working people…It should be the working people in office for the working people. We need people who represent us.”