When St. Charles residents Terry Beltran and her husband Scott opened their mom-and-pop diner over 18 years ago, they never envisioned the one-two punch that would come their way nearly two decades into operating Daddio’s Diner in Batavia. “We got hit pretty bad with the last virus a few years ago and still haven’t recovered from that,” Scott Beltran said recently about the … [Read more...] about Soaring egg prices have left Aurora-area restaurants and bakeries scrambling: ‘Honestly, we’re nearly bankrupt’.
Immigration officials say everyone living in the US illegally must register. What does that mean?
Immigration officials say anyone living in the U.S. illegally will soon have to register with the federal government, and those who don’t could face fines, imprisonment or both. The registry will be mandatory for everyone 14 and older who doesn’t have legal status, according to a Tuesday statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a branch of the Department of … [Read more...] about Immigration officials say everyone living in the US illegally must register. What does that mean?
Students hit the silver screen for Black History Month Film Festival in Country Club Hills
Sisters Ariana and Anaya Lawton are still in elementary school, but they recently saw their work on the silver screen at Marcus Country Club Hills Cinema after participating in making a film called “Modern Icons,” about notable Black heroes. Ariana, a 5th grader at Prairie-Hills S.T.E.A.M. Academy in Markham, worked on editing and production while Anaya had an acting part in … [Read more...] about Students hit the silver screen for Black History Month Film Festival in Country Club Hills
Editorial: From Dolton to Will County, municipal voters stood against drama and for moderation
In a time of intense polarization, voters in municipal elections that were held Tuesday around the Chicago area showed encouraging signs of exhaustion with politicians’ drama. On both the left and the right. Look no further than the beleaguered overwhelmingly Democratic village of Dolton, which overwhelmingly drummed out its controversial mayor, Tiffany Henyard, after four … [Read more...] about Editorial: From Dolton to Will County, municipal voters stood against drama and for moderation
Ray LaHood and James Nowlan: Extreme gerrymandering is as bad as old white-only primaries
Clever software, aided by hands-off decisions from the federal courts, has in recent years transformed decennial redistricting of legislative seats from a process of representing voters to that of effectively “unrepresenting” them — denying effective participation in elections for broad swaths of citizens. The consequences are, we contend, as anti-democratic as the reviled … [Read more...] about Ray LaHood and James Nowlan: Extreme gerrymandering is as bad as old white-only primaries