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The scholarships were designed by Giannoulias as a public–private partnership, with the funding for the scholarships donated by a private firm at no cost to the state or taxpayers. [21] Giannoulias also developed the Cultivate Illinois Excellence in Agriculture scholarship in 2008.
In 2009 and 2010, Meeks worked to pass opportunity scholarships for children in Chicago's worst-performing public schools. This effort was supported by a bipartisan coalition of legislators and outside groups such as the Illinois Policy Institute. [20] In 2015, he was elected chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education, [21] serving until ...
Stephen Baskerville proposes "reasonable limits" on no-fault divorce when children are involved. [90] Some members of the FRM support the end of the no-fault principle in child custody and divorce decisions. [4] [106] [107] Some members of the fathers' rights movement state that the availability of divorce should also be limited. [4]
As a young child, I couldn't get enough of hearing my parents' divorce story. I thought I was just a curious kid for many years, but looking back, I realize I was digging for something specific ...
In 2014 the Chicago Sun-Times described the Clerk's office as "a 2,300-employee office, one of the last true bastions of political patronage in Illinois". [ 7 ] Beginning in August 2018, a federally-ordered monitor was appointed under to audit the hiring and employment practices of Brown's office in an effort to monitor the office's compliance ...
On March 7, 2016, the Chicago Sun-times reported that the Dunkin campaign was facing serious allegations of voter fraud within a high-stakes Illinois House campaign; catching the attention of Cook County prosecutors. Secretary of State Jesse White and Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd) appeared at a South Side press conference to accuse Rep. Ken Dunkin of ...
From 1981 to 1984, Hamos served as legislative counsel and policy advisor to then-State's Attorney Richard M. Daley, advocating for the first-ever laws and policies on domestic violence and sexual assault. She was appointed in 1984 as director of the child support division, with oversight of 300,000 child support cases.
Snack foods, insta-meals, cereals, and drinks tend to come and go, but the ones we remember from childhood seem to stick with us. Children of the 1970s and 1980s had a veritable smorgasbord of ill ...