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Chicago voters would get to decide who sits on the city’s school board in the next two municipal elections under a bill that passed the Illinois House on Thursday and now moves to the state Senate.
All Chicago-based legislators voted in favor of advancing the bill, which would allow for the election of members of the Chicago Board of Education “for the 2023 and 2027 consolidated primary elections only” and requires the General Assembly to “review and revise the election of members of the Chicago Board of Education” at a later date.
A graduate of Chicago Public Schools, state Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Chicago, said the bill “will allow for the first time in a long time for Chicago to have” the same democracy as other municipalities that elect their local school boards.
Bobby Schilling s Remarkable Career
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If you followed the directions from printer paper signs hung around LeClaire in fall 2019, you might have ended up in a gravel parking lot at the foot of a bluff. There, two children sat in golf carts signaling traffic. Hop in; we ll give you a ride up, said Sam Schilling. Not quite the youngest of his six brothers and four sisters, Sam could reach the cart s pedals and so his father put him in charge of carting people to the house for his event. As the cart filled with guests, he looked at his younger brother: You may have to walk up.
Former Illinois Congressman Bobby Schilling dies at 57
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ROCKFORD (WREX) Former Illinois 17th District Representative Bobby Schilling has died after a battle with cancer.
Schilling, a republican, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011-2013, but lost the seat in the 2012 General Election to current democratic congresswoman Cheri Bustos.
Shilling was a Quad Cities native and in 2014, moved to the Iowa side of the Quad Cities and ran for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District.
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