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It was an unremarkable day in expungement court until a man with tears in his eyes spoke up.

Published June 9, 2021 at 6:07 PM CDT Listen • 18:03 Voces Oral History Center at the The University of Texas at Austin US Latino/a Studies at Iowa State University, in collaboration with the Parks Library and the Voces Oral History Project at the University of Texas at Austin, will collect interviews with members of the Latino community and their stories from the COVID-19 pandemic. An oral history partnership has an Iowa State student collecting the stories of Latino/a Iowa and their experience of the pandemic. Latino Iowans made up a disproportionate number o...

Community Re-Engaged We are not finished with this pandemic, or maybe I should say that the pandemic is not yet finished with us, but it sure feels as if most of us have moved on. Maybe it’s the amount of time that has passed since Covid-19 overwhelmed us, maybe it’s the pace of the vaccine rollout, or that nagging sense that masks and virtual meetings are now our new way of life. Whatever it is, we’ll never quite be the same, but we’re adjusting. One thing we have to reacquaint ourselves with is our sense of community. It’s not that we lost it, but it went underground over the past...

That report, by the Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts, the Chicago Council of Lawyers and the Civic Federation, stipulated that the clerk “did not respond to several requests for a meeting or an invitation to participate in a virtual community forum in connection with this progress report.” Most of its findings were from talking to executive staff in the office, as well as media reports and conversations with practitioners, advocates and litigants. The report notes Martinez is working with the Civic Consulting Alliance, a pro bono consulting firm that often works with local gover...

* Subscribers had a heads-up about this today… The Democratic Party of Illinois (DPI) today named Abby Witt as its new Executive Director. An Evanston native, Witt has spent nearly two decades working with progressive campaigns and causes, building programs that successfully bring more people into the political process to advance Democratic values. “Abby has a proven track record of building inclusive organizations, has established solid relationships throughout the state, and has the vision to lead our party as its Executive Director,” said Congresswoman Robin Kelly, DPI Chairwoman. �...