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  • 3 days ago | chronicleillinois.com | Kevin Beese

    As the Chicago Board of Education embarks on its first Chicago Public School superintendent search in decades, it launched an unprecedented public outreach — and it insists that it’s not just for show. For the past three decades, Chicago mayors chose both the public-school CEOs and the board members. However, since the start of this year, the newly expanded board has been split between 10 elected members and 11 appointed members.

  • 3 days ago | chronicleillinois.com | Kevin Beese

    SPRINGFIELD — Giving almost no time for public review, Illinois Democrats pushed through a $55.2 billion budget for next fiscal year late Saturday, bolstering coffers with new taxes on sports bets, nicotine products and businesses. The $55.2 billion spending plan is supported by $55.3 billion of revenue, including just more than $1 billion in new taxes and revenue changes.

  • 3 days ago | chronicleillinois.com | Kevin Beese

    Two of the country’s largest collections of Native American human remains are held by museums in Illinois. To the director of one of the museums, the work to rebury those remains at the behest of a tribal nation or send them to the tribe is an emotional process necessary for correcting historic wrongs — but it also includes a lot of bureaucratic paperwork that can take months to years to process. And it takes so long for a reason.

  • 3 days ago | chronicleillinois.com | Kevin Beese

    Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development is eying improvements to the South Branch of the Chicago River as far west as Western Avenue — a roadmap that will build off several earlier plans completed by other city departments and Southwest Side community organizations.

  • 3 days ago | chronicleillinois.com | Kevin Beese

    Pride Month began in Lake County with people from all over the Chicago area lining the route for the seventh Buffalo Grove Pride Parade on Sunday. With 100 parade entries, colors popped thanks, in part, to banner weather which was breezy to unfurl flags. Sunshine and rainbows prevailed amid temperatures in the 60-degree range. This year’s parade theme was “Pride is Natural.” The parade began on Buffalo Grove Road and continued with a turn onto Deerfield Parkway.

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