The Schaumburg Park District will accept resumes through April 16 from those interested in filling a two-year vacancy on the board of commissioners due to the resignation of longtime member Mike Daniels, who is retiring out of state.
Updated 3/17/2021 3:11 PM
A former Palatine High School teacher fired last summer over a controversial Facebook post is suing a candidate for the Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board for what she alleges were defamatory statements intended to harm her.
Jeanne Hedgepeth s lawsuit against Palatine resident Tim McGowan seeks in excess of $50,000 in compensatory and punitive damages for defamation and intentional interference with an existing business relationship. It was filed last month in a Cook County court.
The lawsuit claims McGowan made knowingly false statements in a Facebook post and video in June in an effort to have Hedgepeth fired from Palatine High School, where she d worked since 2000.
Schaumburg Convention Center preparing for mass vaccination
Check-in computers await the 6,000 visitors expected at the Schaumburg Convention Center for a one-day mass vaccination event Wednesday. John Starks | Staff Photographer
More than 300 chairs await people at the Schaumburg Convention Center, which will host a mass vaccination site Wednesday. It s expected that more than 6,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses will be administered during the one-day event. John Starks | Staff Photographer
Dozens of vaccination stations have been set up inside the Schaumburg Convention Center for a one-day mass vaccination event taking place Wednesday. More than 6,000 doses are expected to be given. John Starks | Staff Photographer
Last call at late bars could come an hour earlier in Schaumburg Drink Nightclub in Schaumburg is among five late-night bars in the village that may see their weekend closing times moved back from 3 a.m. to 2 a.m. by a village board vote March 23. Daily Herald file photo, 2013 Schaumburg trustees will vote March 23 on a recommendation to move back the closing times for five late-night bars in the village from 3 a.m. to 2 a.m. on weekends. Daily Herald file photo, 2013
Posted3/16/2021 5:30 AM
Schaumburg officials are considering moving back the latest time restaurants and bars can serve alcohol on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 3 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Posted3/15/2021 5:30 AM
The improvement of equity and equitable opportunities in Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 and what exactly that means are among the issues in the campaign for three seats on the district s board of education.
Some of the nine candidates see the issue as primarily one of racial equity within the culture of the district. Others interpret it more broadly to include how educational and other resources are allocated among its five main schools.
Candidate Tim McGowan said recent Freedom of Information Act requests have brought to light inequities that affect all students of the district, such as a large disparity between the numbers of Black and white students being suspended. He believes improved education of teachers and staff about these issues can help them better serve students.