The eleventh-hour effort to save the Invest in Kids tax credit scholarship program failed as Illinois lawmakers adjourned without taking up a proposal to extend it beyond Dec. 31.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Patti Serpa is a single mother of five who relies on a state-sponsored tax credit to send her youngest, 12-year-old Santos, to St. Pius V School, a Catholic grade school in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood that she feels provides him with a better education than his former public school. “Being at St. Pius, it’s a family,” Serpa said in Springfield last week, where she and .
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Patti Serpa is a single mother of five who relies on a state-sponsored tax credit to send her youngest, 12-year-old Santos, to St. Pius V School, a Catholic grade school in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood that she feels provides him with a better education than his former public school. “Being at St. Pius, it’s a family,” Serpa said in Springfield last week, where she and dozens of others .
After weekend Chicago gun violence left at least 16 dead, including two children, and 50 others wounded, the city’s top cop said Monday that extra officers will hit the streets for the upcoming Fourth of July holiday weekend. An additional 1,200 Chicago police officers will be added beginning Thursday and through Sunday, Supt. David Brown said, calling the department’s holiday…