Sources close to the disbanding of Park Ridge chapter of the League of Woman Voters by the national League board say they are still unsure what led to the board’s September 30 decision to shut down the 70-year-old chapter.
North Cook News has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against Evanston Township High School (ETHS) over conflicting, and inadequate responses, it received from the school FOIA officer concerning its 2023-24 course catalogue...
For the second year in a row, the Maine Township Board, citing its flush reserve funds, approved an abatement of the General Assistance and Town Fund tax levies.The abatement means that taxpayers are off the hook for the levies approved in December, Trustee Susan Kelly Sweeney, who pushed for the abatements both this year and last, told North Cook News.
Former high-level aides to Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has revealed that Senate Republican Leader Bill Brady (R-Bloomington) told the then governor he was right for signing HB 40 in September 2017, the law requiring Medicaid funding of abortions. At a separate meeting, Brady also recommended that the governor sign gun control bills should they reach his desk.
New Trier social studies teacher Kerry Hall recently distributed a handout to his class that listed “Volunteer at Planned Parenthood or similar organization” among a list of suggestions on how to avert climate change.
Evanston/Skokie District 65 students and their parents are about to get a taste of one pro-family activist’s warning about the new state law requiring the teaching of LGBTQ history in public schools.
The recently approved state budget hardly makes Illinois the beacon of fiscal prudence that Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and legislative leaders claim it is, budgetary analysts at Wirepoints say.
The same day the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) ruled that the Maine Township Board was right when it voted not to certify the pension eligibility of a politically connected elected official, it stripped all local governments of the authority to certify the pensions of their elected officials.
House Speaker Michael Madigan used his absolute power over the legislative process to move legislation to the floor on Friday that exchanges Illinois’ constitutionally mandated flat income tax with a progressive tax.
New Trier Superintendent Paul Sally reprimanded a school guidance counsel for statements attributed to him in a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) story concerning plans by the College Board to apply an “adversity score” to all children taking college entrance exams, SATs.
Critics on the right and left shredded the 2015 documentary film The Hunting Ground for its one-sided, inaccurate illustration of sexual assault on college campuses. Yet for the second year in a row New Trier High School screened the movie for seniors.
Children at Nichols Middle School in Evanston are being served a steady dose of racial sensitivity and equity awareness by a school administration that segregates its teachers.
Rolling Meadows 4th Ward Alderman and mayoral candidate Joe Gallo was censured by City Council Tuesday night on a 5-1 vote, with Gallo the lone vote against the motion.
Outspoken sex education teacher Kim Cavill, 37, is running for the Palatine-Schaumburg District 211 school board, and calls a recent investigative series by the magazine Governing on segregation in Illinois “incredible.”
Taxpayers in Maine Township finally got the break that some trustees have been fighting for when the Board voted at a special meeting Wednesday night to approve a 100 percent abatement in the levy of the General Assistance Fund (GA) and 10 percent of the Town Fund (TF).
Rolling Meadows Third Ward Alderman Laura Majikes has filed a complaint against fellow Alderman Joe Gallo over his “loutish and rude” behavior immediately following the Feb. 12 City Council meeting, a source told North Cook News.