Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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education
  • by david hall
CPS selective enrollment bill dead in Springfield after Johnson letter to Senate president

Mayor Brandon Johnson sent a letter to Illinois Senate President Don Harmon on Thursday asking him to hold House Bill 303, which had already passed the Illinois House and needed a final vote in the Senate.

education
  • by david hall
CPS board, Springfield could hold dueling votes on school cops

The social justice protests in the summer of 2020, after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, have sparked thorny debates ever since. A Springfield bill on the issue is the latest backlash to Mayor Brandon Johnson's Board of Education.

the-watchdogs
  • by david hall
In DEA case that led to jet seizure in Gary, former Indiana beauty queen and two bank employees now charged

Glenis Zapata, 34, of Lafayette, Indiana, who was working as a flight attendant, was indicted in Chicago on charges that she helped cocaine traffickers transport $310,000 in drug proceeds to Mexico on commercial airline trips.

city-hall
  • by david hall
Anti-abortion members of City Council stall approval of quiet zone around West Loop clinic

At the behest of Planned Parenthood, Ald. Bill Conway (34th) was trying for the second time in six months to establish a "quiet zone" around the abortion clinic operated by Family Planning Associates at 659 W. Washington Blvd., where women have been bullied and intimidated there on their way inside.