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Posts tagged George Floyd
Sic transit annus horribilis
It was a very dark year, but not without glimmers of hope for the future
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Ted Cox2020 Year in Review, Annus Horribilis, Lorado Taft, Graceland Cemetery, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Trump Impeachment, Kamala Harris, Lauren Underwood, Jim Oberweis, Sean Casten, Jeanne Ives, Dick Durbin, Illinois Teacher Shortage, IDES, Illinois Insulin, Women's March Chicago, Rod Blagojevich, Michael Madigan, ComEd Bribery, Fair Tax Amendment, Thomas Kilbride, Michael Frerichs, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, Anna IL, Illinois Legalization, Illinois Legal Marijuana, Illinois Recreational Marijuana, Illinois Adult-Use Cannabis Revenue, Illinois Adult-Use Cannabis, Angela Jackson, John Prine, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Amy Coney Barrett, Bruno the Bear, U.S. Census, COVID-19, Coronavirus, COVID-19 Vaccine
U.N. head strikes at inequality
In Mandela lecture, Guterres calls for New Social Contract, New Global Deal
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Ted CoxUnited Nations, Antonio Guterres, Nelson Mandela, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Income Inequality, Health Care, Education, Me Too, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, Thomas Piketty
Juneteenth is busting out all over
Chicago skirts holiday issue as competing bills mandating state celebration remain sidetracked in General Assembly
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Ted CoxJuneteenth, Juneteenth Holiday, Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Civil War, 13th Amendment, U.S. Constitution, Gordon Granger, Juneteenth National Registry, George Floyd, Leslie Hairston, Lori Lightfoot, J.B. Pritzker, La Shawn Ford, Thaddeus Jones, Illinois Department of Human Services, Juliana Stratton, Taylor Bennett, Chance the Rapper, Maudlyne Ihejirika, Marishonta Wilkerson
Chicago aldermen want cops out of schools
Ordinance crafted to halt $33M in police funding, divert resources to public schools
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Ted CoxChicago Police Department, Chicago Public Schools, Defund the Police, Roderick Sawyer, Jeanette Taylor, Caleb Reed, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Lori Lightfoot, U.S. Department of Education, Voices of Youth in Chicago Education, George Floyd
Anna: Ain't No Negativity Allowed
Peaceful Black Lives Matter protest sways town with ‘history as a haven for racism’
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Ted CoxAnna IL, Black Lives Matter, Jenna Gomez, Kathy Bryan, Kiki's Coffeehouse, Anna City Council, Bonnie Burton, Pack Rats Paradise Antique Mall, Bryan Watkins, Daniel Klingemann, George Floyd
Lightfoot: 'We will reopen tomorrow'
Chicago mayor rebuffs Trump on deploying military against looters: ‘That’s not gonna happen’
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Ted CoxChicago Coronavirus, Coronavirus, Illinois Coronavirus, COVID-19, Chicago COVID-19, Lori Lightfoot, Donald Trump, J.B. Pritzker, David Brown, Allison Arwady, Restore Illinois, George Floyd
'It is time to call for calm'
Pritzker declares disaster in nine counties, calls up more guardsmen, blasts Trump’s ‘incendiary rhetoric’
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Police protests exploited by looters
Chicago locks down Loop, Aurora joins in overnight curfew; Pritzker clashes on call with Trump
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Ted CoxLori Lightfoot, J.B. Pritzker, George Floyd, Police Protests, Protest Looting, Donald Trump, Bill Foster, David Brown, Juliana Stratton, Kim Foxx, Colleen Connell, ACLU of Illinois, Chicago Coronavirus, Coronavirus, Illinois Coronavirus, COVID-19, Illinois COVID-19 Toll, Illinois COVID-19
Lightfoot to Trump: 'FU'
‘He’s a racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a xenophobe,’ says Gov. Pritzker
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Lori Lightfoot, J.B. Pritzker, George Floyd, Walter Headley, George Wallace, U.S. Racism, Ngozi Ezike, Coronavirus, Chicago Coronavirus, Illinois Coronavirus, COVID-19, Chicago COVID-19, Illinois COVID-19 Toll, Illinois COVID-19, Restore Illinois, Illinois Contact Tracing, Contact Tracing Scams
State COVID toll tops 5,000 with 160 new deaths
Pritzker touts expansion of contact tracing in East St. Louis, St. Clair County
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Ted CoxCoronavirus Testing, Coronavirus, Illinois Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Testing, COVID-19 Disparities, Illinois COVID-19 Toll, Illinois COVID-19, J.B. Pritzker, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation, Elizabeth Patton-Whiteside, East Side Health District, Mark Kern, George Floyd, Christian Cooper, U.S. Racism
