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Kathy Hochul announces policy will expire as of Thursday as cases decrease but will keep masks in school for now – follow the latest politics news

Although ex-inmates often land back in prison, one expert said "I would be surprised if Van Dyke, a white former police officer, has the same experience as the average returning resident, who is likely a lower-income, Black or Brown person reconnecting with loved ones after years locked up."

EVANSTON, Ill. — A few months after Emily Maloney tried to kill herself, she finally opened her mail. She was 19, living in Iowa City, an undergraduate at University of Iowa. She felt she never really knew how to be a person in the world. In high school, back in…

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While sources say the governor will wind down the mask mandate for the public at large, state officials are expected to continue waging the legal battle to keep masks on in schools, which Pritzker says present a different challenge in the fight to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Governors or agencies in four states announced they would end their school mask mandates on Feb. 7

Think of the future of the profession and consider mentoring a student teacher. If we don’t start giving these students opportunities, we won’t have enough teachers to staff our schools.

After hitting a record in December of $140 million, Illinois adult-use cannabis sales plunged 15% to $117.3 million in January. Still, it’s a year-over-year increase of 32%.

Calling the Jan. 6 riots "legitimate political discourse," as the censure of Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney does, is nothing more than a willful denial of reality.

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CHICAGO — A judge’s recent ruling that Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 mask mandate was authorized illegally prompted chaos and confusion Monday morning at school districts across Illinois, as increasingly volatile battles over virus mitigation strategies further divided communities and forced some schools to cancel classes.