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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Lynn Sweet

Jill Biden invites Rolling Meadows H.S. student to sit in her box at the State of the Union address

At the 2022 State of the Union, First Lady Jill Biden applauds her guest, Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova. Markarova will be Biden’s guest again at this year’s State of the Union along with singer Bono, Paul Pelosi, a suburban Chicago high school student and the mother and stepfather of Tyre Nichols. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — Kate Foley, a sophomore at Rolling Meadows High School, will be among First Lady Jill Biden's guests Tuesday night when President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.

Jill Biden phoned Kate last week to personally invite her in a call with the student and her mother, Dana, an 8th-grade English teacher at Carl Sandburg Junior High in Rolling Meadows. They told the first lady they had never been to Washington before.

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