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A wave of color sweeps into local offices Top, left to right, Tim McGowan, Yasmeen Bankole, Curtis Bradley, Tayyaba Syed, Steve Wang, Erin Chan Ding. Bottom, left to right, Dan Choi, Syed Hussaini, Sol Cabechuela, Paul Leong, Shweta Baid, Ian Holzhauer. These are just some of the minority candidates who ran successfully for municipal and school board offices in the April 6 election.
Updated 4/24/2021 4:53 PM
A wave of minority candidates from diverse racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds swept over the suburbs during the spring elections, as dozens of contenders stepped up to seek positions on municipal, school, township, library and park boards.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks in Champaign to urge local school districts in Illinois to carefully target the roughly $7 billion in federal funds they will soon receive to help students overcome the learning loss they may have suffered during the pandemic.
What is considered a fair map, how lawmakers should deal with the Census delay, and what is the best way to draw legislative maps are all questions lawmakers and public advocates are trying to hash out as Illinois prepares to draw legislative boundaries this year.
States are required to redraw their legislative districts every 10 years. Illinois lawmakers handle the redistricting process, which has been the first point of contention with lawmakers and advocates who believe maps should be drawn by an independent commission instead.
What is considered a fair map, how lawmakers should deal with the Census delay, and what is the best way to draw legislative maps are all questions lawmakers and public advocates are trying to hash out as Illinois prepares to draw legislative boundaries this year.
States are required to redraw their legislative districts every 10 years. Illinois lawmakers handle the redistricting process, which has been the first point of contention with lawmakers and advocates who believe maps should be drawn by an independent commission instead.
“When politicians draw the maps, they look out for their own partisan purposes, said state Rep. Tim Butler, R-Springfield. People know. When they look at these maps they know they have been drawn up for political reasons.
Community organizations call for removal of president of DePaul-partnered police union
Cailey Gleeson, News Editor|February 7, 2021
Seventy-eight local and national organizations wrote a letter on Feb. 1 to the Chicago Police Board and Mayor Lori Lightfoot calling for the removal of the city’s Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara in light of his possible dismissal from CPD for racist comments.
The letter has been getting national attention, said CAIR Deputy Director Sufyan Sohel.
“I think the George Floyd murder really brought to issue of who are police officers,” Sohel said. “Why are Black and Brown communities treated differently? And what is this disconnect between our law enforcement and the communities that they are tasked to serve? And officer Catanzara just exemplifies some of that.”