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Karen Hawkins

Chicago

Story Editor @19thnews. #Founder @RebelliousMag. Co-host @not_ok_pod & @feministerotic.

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  • 2 weeks ago | rebelliousmagazine.com | Reema Amin |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. Mayor Brandon Johnson announced on May 13 that Chicago will spend $7 million on increasing salaries for 3,000 early childhood workers, as part of an effort to pay them closer to what their counterparts at K-12 schools earn.

  • 1 month ago | rebelliousmagazine.com | Ben Szalinski |Karen Hawkins

    SPRINGFIELD – Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton is the first Democrat to step into what is expected to be a crowded race to fill Sen. Dick Durbin’s Senate seat. Stratton launched her campaign Thursday morning in a video just one day after Durbin announced he will not seek reelection for a seat he has held since 1997.

  • 1 month ago | rebelliousmagazine.com | Karen Hawkins

    After an eight-year hiatus, women’s football is back in Chicago. The Chicago Winds launched their inaugural season in March, joining the Women’s National Football Conference (WNFC). The Winds have the former Chicago Force Women’s Tackle Football in their DNA: President and Owner Angelique Smith is a former Force player. “After women’s football in Chicago ended in 2017, I felt the absence of that empowering community of female athletes.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 2 months 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.

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