SARAH MANSUR
Capitol News Illinois
SPRINGFIELD â A state House task force continued its discussion about reevaluating controversial statues and whether new monuments commemorating minorities should be added to the state Capitol grounds.
The hearing Wednesday is the second meeting of the bipartisan Statue and Monument Review Task Force, which was formed by Speaker Emanuel âChrisâ Welch last month. The purpose of the task force is to conduct a review of monuments on state property and proposals for new monuments or statues.
Adam Green, an associate history professor at the University of Chicago, was one of four speakers who shared their perspectives on the task forceâs charge.
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NAVAL AIR STATION WHITING FIELD Lt. Col. Jason N. Dale, U.S. Marine Corps, relieved Cmdr. R. David Mims, U.S. Navy, as the 57th commanding officer of the “Shooters,” Training Squadron Six (VT-6), in a unique ceremony at Naval Air Station Whiting Field in late April.
The squadron is one of three fixed-wing aircraft training squadrons under Training Air Wing Five (TRAWING FIVE).
Mims and Dale conducted their change of command in a unique airborne ceremony while squadron members, friends, and family looked on.
Three T-6B aircraft participated in a formation flight with the first flown by Mims, the second by Dale, and the third with the commodore of Training Air Wing Five (TW-5), Col. Jeffrey Pavelko, serving as the ceremony’s officiating officer.
Statue task force considers adding, removing state monuments Last year, then-House Speaker Michael Madigan called for the removal of Stephen Douglas image from the Capitol grounds. Douglas, who served as Illinois secretary of state, a state Supreme Court justice and as U.S. senator, was a slave owner. Jerry Nowicki/Capitol News Illinois
Updated 5/19/2021 4:33 PM
SPRINGFIELD A state House task force continued its discussion about reevaluating controversial statues and whether new monuments commemorating minorities should be added to the state Capitol grounds.
The hearing Wednesday is the second meeting of the bipartisan Statue and Monument Review Task Force, which was formed by Speaker Emanuel Chris Welch, a Hillside Democrat, last month. The purpose of the task force is to conduct a review of monuments on state property and proposals for new monuments or statues.