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IL strips explicit racial criteria from minority teacher scholarship program

Rather than attempt to defend a longstanding state-funded scholarship program against claims in court that it intentionally discriminated against white applicants, the state of Illinois has rewritten the law to end explicit racial preferences in the program altogether. ...
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Op-Ed: Stacked costs are crushing Illinois manufacturers

Operating a manufacturing business in Illinois has been an exercise in perseverance and is growing worse. I manage DuPage Precision Products in Aurora, where we produce a wide range of metal components and precision parts. We take pride in machining high-quality products. But in ...
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Chicago minority, low-income students struggling to make testing grade

(The Center Square) - Illinois state Rep. La Shawn Ford said it's not hard to comprehend why Chicago Public Schools system low-income and minority students are reading and performing math at much lower levels than their state peers. ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Texas Operation Lone Star 2.0: pursuing domestic terrorist threats

(The Center Square) - The border crisis is far from over despite the Trump administration implementing policies to reduce illegal border crossings to historic lows. The hardest part has ...
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Illinois in Focus: SCOTUS to release order list; U.S. Steel returns; Candidate quests for answers

(The Center Square) - In today's edition of Illinois in Focus Daily, The Center Square Editor Greg Bishop shares reaction from Illinois state Rep. Amy Elik, R-Alton, about the announcement that U.S. Steel is restarting a blast furnace in Granite City. ...
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Charlotte stabbing reignites debates on commuter safety, immigration

(The Center Square) - Charlotte welcomed its new police chief Friday morning, and by nightfall was returned to the spotlight of light rail train safety and the nation's debate on immigration, two recent flashpoints this time coming together in one case. ...
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Afghans arrested by ICE released into the country by the Biden administration

(The Center Square) - Federal and local law enforcement officers have been arresting Afghan men since they were released into the country by the Biden administration in 2021. Key ...
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Operation Lone Star: Paws and hooves integral to border security

(The Center Square) - Texas law enforcement officers working through Gov. Greg Abbott's border security mission, Operation Lone Star, continue to apprehend illegal border crossers, tracking them through brush, rugged terrain and on barren ranchland. ...
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Obama-era ‘Welcoming Cities’ program overlaps with illegal border crosser crimes

(The Center Square) - A program launched in partnership with the Obama administration more than a decade ago that certifies localities to "improve immigrant inclusion" overlaps with crimes being committed by illegal foreign nationals in those communities, according to crime reports, U.S. Immigration and ...
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Expert blasts Illinois Congressman’s push to double H-1Bs as ‘tone-deaf’

(The Center Square) - A renewed push to double H-1B visas is touted as a talent win, but critics warn it could reshape the tech market by driving down wages and edging out U.S. grads. ...
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IL legislator credits Trump for U.S. Steel announcement

(The Center Square) - An Illinois state legislator from the Metro East says it's a Christmas miracle that U.S. Steel is reopening a furnace in Granite City. Republican state ...
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Illinois quick hits: Armed sex offender sentenced; most are family farms

Armed sex offender sentenced A Southern Illinois man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after he admitted to distributing child pornography and obscene material to a minor. ...
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