While a comedic "Home Alone" sequel played in theaters, David and Sharon Schoo took a vacation, leaving their 9- and 4-year-old daughters alone for Christmas.
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Good Thursday morning, Illinois. I will be spending a good part of the day on Zoom and I am really hoping a cat pops up.
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered his virtual budget address Feb. 17, 2021, from the State Fair Grounds, which a hundred years earlier was the site of a makeshift hospital for patients affected by the Spanish Flu. | Screen shot
Chicago educators organize independent opposition to teacher union’s plans to reopen schools
The fight to prevent school reopenings in Chicago, which is the focal point of the class struggle in the United States, qualitatively deepened on Thursday evening. The Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee held a powerful meeting that gave voice to the most advanced and determined educators striving to close schools and contain the pandemic in Chicago and worldwide.
The committee meeting took place under conditions where the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) officials are continuing their secret negotiations to try to reach a deadly compromise to reopen the schools. The resumption of in-person classes in the nation’s third largest school district is key to the Biden’s administration’s plans to reopen all K-8 schools by mid-April so that the parents of school children can be sent back to work.