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This Joyce initiative combined with other strategies passed in previous years, which include raising the minimum wage for teachers to $40,000 per year and increasing funding for teacher preparation programs, aim to alleviate the teacher shortage felt across the nation.

The driver, now identified as Martice Smith, was wearing a Louis Vuitton “satchel bag”  underneath his jacket. Inside the satchel was a loaded Springfield .45 caliber handgun.

“He’s been a great and marvelous individual as an alderman and he’s prepared to do the same thing for the people of Illinois,” states Thurston. #secretaryofstate

Robbins Mayor Darren Bryant Bans Dr. Cornel Darden Jr, Owner of the Southland Journal Newspaper and Robbins Native from Village Hall #

"I was born and raised in Robbins, Illinois. It is my home. The only home that I know and I'm moving back, " said Darden.

Davis said he would not have poured as much money into the project as he did if he had known that Mayor James Ford has the final say in which businesses are and aren’t granted licenses to operate in the city. #CountryClubHills

Let me tell you how we got to this point and draw the Really Black conclusion. In the fall of 2014, I met the Byrd Brothers, Darrell and James F. Byrd Jr., Black McDonald’s franchisees at a Memphis Grizzlies basketball game. They told me that they had eight (8) McDonald’s stores, four (4) each, and McDonald’s was forcing them to sell four (4) stores, two (2) each, to Fred Tillman, who’s White and at that time was the largest McDonald’s USA franchisee.

ANDREW LEE and KIMBERLY A. DYSON worked as Prosthetic Clerks in the Veterans Health Administration Prosthetics Service in Chicago. 

The meeting began with the pledge and a prayer. After no public comments were made, the board went on to approve minutes from previous meetings.

Earlier the Southland Journal reported on Mayor Henyard cutting off the public chat relay on Youtube that allows for public comment for Dolton's virtual only meetings. The Public Chat feature has been the method for public comment since she took office.