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Shannon Adcock says she's running for the Indian Prairie District 204 School Board and helps organize effort to find more conservative candidates, drawing opponents who say she and other Awake Illinois supporters reject diversity and LGBTQ students.
About 25 people gathered near a Des Plaines hotel Saturday morning to protest a training session for politically conservative school board candidates being held inside.
The new ordinance would prohibit Chicago police or any other agency of local government from cooperating in investigations that seek to criminalize women who come to Chicago seeking abortions and other reproductive care.
The appointment is expected to give Knudsen a running start in next year’s aldermanic elections in the affluent North Side ward, which typically sees heavily contested races. The nomination goes before the City Council Rules Committee Tuesday and the full Council Wednesday.
Attorney General Raoul Convenes Roundtable Discussion on Combatting Hate Speech and Violence.