“Two hundred and fifty years ago, when the Revolutionary War was in its early stages and the Declaration of Independence was being drafted, debated and adopted, Champaign County did not exist. Nor did Illinois. And, according to historians, it would be almost 50 years before a White man settled in this land of tallgrass prairie and swampy woods. … And yet the county has a tenuous link, perhaps two, to the American Revolution.”

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign hosted an all-ages drag tea party at its publicly funded Spurlock Museum during Pride Month, inviting families to attend performances by drag entertainers while encouraging participants to wear Pride-inspired attire.

Beginning July 1, the state’s definition of cyberbullying was expanded to include AI-generated digital replicas, forcing school districts across Illinois to update policies and procedures. Also by July 1, the Illinois State Board of Education was required to develop statewide guidance on artificial intelligence in schools. ISBE press secretary Lindsay Record said that while the agency is still developing guidance, “it remains the case that local policies, procedures and responses to specific incidents are determined at the district and school level.”

“Her family exploited birthright citizenship to raise a pathetic excuse for a public official…. She will blast our history using erroneous conclusions from the present, and as a bonus, she even fawns over terrorists.”