Karen Hawkins

2 weeks ago | rebelliousmagazine.com | Mila Koumpilova |Karen Hawkins

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newslettersSign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools. If Chicago Public Schools were to tackle all the building repairs and upgrade projects on its list, that would cost $14.4 billion. Just the ones the district considers “critical”? About $3 billion.

3 weeks ago | rebelliousmagazine.com | Peter Hancock |Karen Hawkins

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined another multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration, this time seeking to block the termination of nearly $12 billion worth of public health grants to states. Raoul was part of a coalition of 24 state attorneys general and governors who filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for terminating the grants.

3 weeks ago | rebelliousmagazine.com | Karen Hawkins

Amid chants of “Trans Power” and “Visibility is Resistance,” a spirited crowd marked Trans Day of Visibility in Chicago Sunday with a rain-and-shine rally at Federal Plaza and a march down Dearborn and around the Loop. Trans Up Front Illinois and Indivisible Chicago hosted the event and were joined by a coalition of more than 50 groups that drew an estimated 1,000 people. TDOV is held every year on March 31 to celebrate trans lives and raise awareness about antitrans discrimination.

3 weeks ago | rebelliousmagazine.com | Karen Hawkins

Women, people of color, LGBTQ+ folks and people with disabilities built this country, and we’re keeping it running today. We own and operate businesses, support and lead organizations and produce the art that both mirrors the world back to us and makes it more beautiful. This Chicago DEI Hire Directory — that name is meant to be ironic — is a work in progress.

1 month ago | rebelliousmagazine.com | Jessica Kutz |Karen Hawkins

This story was originally reported by Jessica Kutz of The 19th. Meet Jessica and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. For decades, women have worked diligently to carve out a space in the construction workforce, where discrimination and sexual harassment have kept the predominantly male industry, well, male. Across the country, they organized for recognition.