Two District 220 incumbents trail GOP-back candidates Upper from left, William Betz, Sandra Ficke-Bradford, Erin Chan Ding, Katie Karam, Lauren Berkowitz Klauer, and lower from left, Jonathan Juan Matta, Malgorzata McGonigal, Michael Shackleton, Steve Wang, Robert Windon are candidates for the Barrington Unit District 220 school board in the 2021 election. Not pictured is candidate Thomas J. Mitoraj
Updated 4/6/2021 9:57 PM
Returns from outside the Cook County portion of Barrington Area Unit District 220 show several school board candidates backed by the Action PAC and Barrington Township Republicans taking an early lead.
The results from Lake, Kane and McHenry counties show newcomer Steve Wang leading the 11-candidate field with 1,036 votes. He s followed by fellow newcomer Katie Karam with 997 votes. Both Wang and Karam were endorsed by Action PAC and the Barrington Township Republicans.
Union, GOP split the seats in District 220, incumbent Shackleton ousted
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League of Women Voters decries party politics in Barrington local elections
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Updated 1/18/2021 8:58 AM
Every year, Nate Rouse and his 12-year-old son observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day by listening to the civil rights leader s I Have a Dream speech and thinking about how to keep that legacy alive.
This year, Rouse said, he hopes the holiday will take on even greater significance for people in light of the nationwide conversations on race and equity sparked by the Black Lives Matter movement in the last year.
One of (King s) most poignant lines was that he hoped his children would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, said Rouse, who in August became the first director of equity, race, and cultural diversity initiatives for Barrington Area Unit District 220. Connecting that vision to the events that have taken place this past year in our country, we have been reminded again in Black, Indigenous and people of color communities that we are not there.