On March 4, 2020, the amendment to Bill HB4954 introduced by House representative, LaShawn K. Ford of the 8th District, was called into a house committee hearing in Springfield. In addition to amending school codes to add commemorative holidays, Humanitarian Day, Victims of Violence Wholly Day, and Dream Day, the amendment mandates that all schools in the State of Illinois teach children grades K-12 Black History. Specifically, the amendment provides that the curriculum taught include the American Civil Rights movement from 1954-1965 and the study of pre-enslavement history.
For the first time in this month's primary election, Cook County Jail is its own polling precinct. Last year, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a law making the Cook County Jail a new polling station for Chicago, allowing ballot access for pretrial detainees. The new law, which was vetoed by Bruce Rauner in 2018, took effect on January 1, 2020. The law states that jails in counties of more than 3 million people are allowed to host a temporary polling place for those eligible to vote. This law only applies to Cook County for now. The other counties (101 total) in Illinois will continue to use mail-in ballots.
Richard Boykin held a town hall on Wednesday, March 4th, 2020, at the first and oldest African American Church & African American congregation in Chicago, Quinn Chapel AME Church. Quinn Chapel AME, which is on the National Register of Historic places and under the leadership of Rev. James Moody SR., welcomed the former commissioner Boykin to the Southside church to express his views and plans as he runs for the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County
Illinois votes Wednesday, March 17th with early voting starting today. With a large pool of Democratic Presidential candidates to choose from this year. Illinois' 155 pledged delegates could mean the difference in being on the ballot in November or not. Here are some answers to common voting questions ahead of "Super Tuesday." This year our vote matters more than ever.
After a panel discussion between five of the Illinois Supreme Court judge candidates, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx and opponent Bill Conway participated in a debate, offering their solutions to the city's most pressing issues. Held at Progressive Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side, the candidates answered questions concerning the poor, gun control, the school-to-prison pipeline, marijuana, and the cash bail system. The discussion was moderated by David Swanson, pastor of New Community Covenant Church in Bronzeville.
"We did this historically by using government as a tool to create and enforce race-based discrimination that killed, crushed, and systematically reduced the lives of too many over generations,". In a conversation about the legacy of poverty in Chicago with Darryl Holliday, from City Bureau, the Mayor stated how she plans to end poverty in a generation. "Poverty is killing us," Lightfoot said. "Literally and figuratively killing us. All of us."
(Chicago, IL) Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx will join Over 100 Clergymen who will gather to publicly endorse her campaign for re-election to...
To help local residents save money and lower their property tax bills, state Rep. Justin Slaughter, D-Chicago, is partnering with Cook County Board of...
