Chicago voters will choose a school board president and members for the first time in November, ending decades of mayoral appointments to lead the city’s public school system.
A federal grand jury has indicted Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas on racketeering and drug trafficking charges, while federal agents separately searched the Washington home of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Brian Costin, deputy state director for Americans for Prosperity-Illinois, is leading the group’s campaign against school facilities sales tax referendums in three Illinois counties, arguing the measure has never lowered property taxes where it has passed.
Six Chicago aldermen affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America give the city’s council the largest DSA presence of any major U.S. city, according to a City Journal article.
Americans for Prosperity-Illinois is campaigning against a 1% school facilities sales tax referendum in Adams, Lake and Tazewell counties, saying the measure has never reduced property taxes where it has passed.
Frank McCormick, who taught in Waukegan District 60 for about a decade before resigning in 2022, says administrators directed staff to inflate grades and suppress discipline records.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed city budget revives a corporate head tax and adds several new levies, with 29 aldermen already on record opposing the measure.
Iran claimed responsibility for attacking seven ships in the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. State Department began withdrawing personnel from Saudi Arabia, warning that hostilities could escalate rapidly.
A self-described fabricated polling operation called Wedgwood Polling admitted to publishing months of invented data that was picked up by major aggregators including The New York Times, exposing significant gaps in polling industry vetting.
A 19-year-old Northwestern University student died Wednesday after being pulled from Lake Michigan near the Evanston campus, with the university offering crisis support services to affected students.