After an impassioned and occasionally contentious two-hour meeting, Agassiz Elementary School’s Local School Council voted 7-4 Wednesday to move ahead with a proposal that could remove the name of a racist scientist from the building — but not before winter. Agassiz Principal Mira Weber outlined a process whereby students and community members will work together to come up with a new name for the
In the wake of the numerous, ongoing federal investigations involving bribery, influence peddling and insider-trading impacting state government officials and lobbyists, a broad coalition of lawmakers gathered Aug. 13 to announce its support for nine specific ethics reform measures that they believe could receive bipartisan support in the upcoming veto session. Democratic lawmakers from both the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Senate said
