Two new plays by Chicago writers ‘Pretended’ and ‘Bull: a love story’ to be developed by Paramount’s New Works Department in January
Paramount Theatre in Aurora will launch next month “The Inception Project,” a new play development initiative designed to create artist-driven, courageous, thought provoking new work in a radically inclusive environment. This is part of a bold new statewide initiative to address and heal the harms caused by racism thanks to a $40,000 Healing Illinois grant from the Illinois Department of Human Services in partnership with The Chicago Community Trust.
Following an eight-day rehearsal process, each play will be recorded and presented as a virtual staged reading open to Paramount subscribers, supporters, the local community, the state of Illinois and theater professionals interested in new work.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of “Crime and Punishment”, once wrote, “The degree of civilisation in a society is revealed by entering its prisons.” Updated for the 21st century, our “degree of civilisation” might be revealed by the technology used inside them.
For Microsoft, prisons represent a market. In recent years, the company and its business partners have started providing an array of surveillance and Big Data analytics solutions to prisons, courts and community supervision programmes.
This comes against a backdrop of global protests against police violence along with calls to defund the police and address institutional racism at every level of the criminal justice system.
DHS employee arrested for neglect
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DIXON - The Illinois State Police (ISP) Division of Internal Investigation (DII) conducted an investigation which led to the arrest of Demitri Davis, an employee of the Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS), Jack Mabley Developmental Center (JMDC) located in Dixon, Illinois.
Davis, 34, of Dixon, has been charged with Aggravated Battery (Class 3 Felony), Abuse or Criminal Neglect of a Long-Term Facility Resident (Class 3 Felony), and Official Misconduct (Class 3 Felony).
On Aug. 24, the ISP, DII, was notified by the Office of the Inspector General of an allegation of Abuse of a resident at the JMDC facility. On Dec. 27, after a thorough investigation, the Lee County State’s Attorney’s office approved three felony charges.
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker said Thursday, Dec. 10, his administration has requested the help of the Illinois National Guard at three of four state-run veterans homes, including two homes that are dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks.
Pritzker said the National Guard members were sent to the LaSalle Veterans’ Home on Dec. 10, and would arrive on Monday, Dec. 14, at state-run homes in Quincy and Manteno to provide “staff support for screening and handling testing data tracking so that medical staff can focus on direct patient support.”
The LaSalle Veterans’ Home reported an additional death last week, bringing the death toll at the facility to 33 residents since a coronavirus outbreak was first reported at the home on Nov. 1.
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(CHICAGO) The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) reported 7,377 new COVID-19 cases in Illinois on Friday, with 181 additional deaths reported yesterday. The new statewide totals show 886,805 confirmed cases and 15,015 COVID-19 related deaths. For continued health updates from the state, go to the dph.illinois.gov website, or if any questions, call the IDPH HealthLine toll-free, at 1-800-889-3931.
(CHICAGO) The results of the 2020 Census in Illinois has been announced, noting the over 400 nonprofits and organizations that helped Illinois exceed its 2010 self-response rate, even during the coronavirus pandemic. Illinois finished seventh nationwide and first among states with over nine (9) million in population size in self-response rates. The Land of Lincoln surpassed the 2010 rate of 70.5 percent, finishing at 71.4 percent in 2020. The City of Chicago outperformed most large