Karen Lewis, Firebrand Former Chicago Teachers Union President, Dead at 67 Subscribe By Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, John Byrne & Juan Perez Jr., Chicago Tribune February 08, 2021 9 min read
Karen Lewis, former president of the Chicago Teachers Union, listens to a question after a meeting of the union s House of Delegates in Chicago on Sept. 14, 2012. The union confirmed Lewis death on Monday. She was 67.Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Share article Copy URL
Karen Lewis, the firebrand former Chicago Teachers Union president who led a seven-day strike in 2012 and was a one-time mayoral hopeful who was unable to run for office because of a cancer diagnosis in October 2014, has died, the CTU confirmed Monday. She was 67.
An Associated Press review of the Department of Transportation’s rulemaking activities in Trump’s first year in office shows at least a dozen safety rules that were under development or already adopted have been repealed, withdrawn, delayed or put on the back burner. In most cases, those rules are opposed by powerful industries. And the political appointees running the agencies that. Attorney Mar 19, 2018
Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, last weekend. But even if CSX should bear sole responsibility for the accident, Amtrak will likely end up paying crash victims’ legal claims with public money. Amtrak pays for accidents it didn’t cause because of secretive agreements.
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The Echo Theater is seen on Dec. 10 in Laurens, S.C. The Echo Project is working to renovate the building that once housed the racist Redneck Shop into a community center and racial reconciliation museum. AP Photo/Fernando Vergara
Dialysis patients Jorge Aldana, 63, right, and John Diaz, 27, work in a vegetable garden during an agro-therapy session at El Tunal Hospital in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Dec. 14. Rev. Don Grant Giuseppe Cacace, Pool via AP
In this Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020 file photo, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates after wining the Formula One race in Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain. Hamilton is now a âSirâ as well as a seven-time Formula One champion after being knighted Wednesday, Dec. 30 in Queen Elizabeth IIâs New Year honors list.
Hyde Park students snagged two of the three top spots in Pegasus Theatre s 34th annual Young Playwrights Festival. Seventeen-year-old Aisha Ziad, a senior at University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, won for âA Ladyâs Facade,â while 18-year-old Jake Florell, who just graduated from Kenwood Academy, was recognized for âThese Glass Lives.â The third winner was âContainmentâ by Lane Tech College Prep s Lincoln Gaw.
Chosen from among ten finalists, the winners each received a $500 prize. More importantly, their plays were produced professionally. This year, unlike any other, the productions are virtual rather than live because of the pandemic. They can be viewed in tandem Jan. 7-31.