Tidye Ann Pickett stood only 5-feet-2, and barely weighed 100 pounds. But nine decades ago, she stood tall in American track.
There are two primary challenges to legislative plans to regulate homeschooling in Illinois.
When you care for someone with a disability or work in any capacity of providing service to that community, it’s impossible to become anything but intimately familiar with the way the state and federal government manage agencies.
“We can’t allow this violence to be normalized.” Cortland Town Trustee Randi Olson included that quote in her statement about a threat made against her political opponent, state Rep. Jeff Keicher, R-Sycamore.
Margaret Abbott of Chicago was the first American woman to win an Olympic event, capturing first place in women’s golf at the second of the modern Games, in Paris in 1900.
Shaking people from closely held beliefs is difficult, especially when trusted sources deliver reinforcement. Broad data helps us see beyond narrow personal experiences, but only when we choose to look.
Out of 49 total vice presidents, only two were politically affiliated with Illinois at the time of their election.
Sam McCann’s career in public service may not be over.
At the first of several public hearings about plans to create the Metropolitan Mobility Authority by consolidating CTA, Metra and Pace which took place July 9 in Chicago, leaders addressed what they call the “fiscal cliff.”