Madhu Krishnamurthy
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ECC professor says race conversations will continue in fallAug 15, 2020 1:00 am - Elgin Community College plans to continue its series of conversations about race this fall, helping navigate uncomfortable topics such as talking to friends, neighbors, ...
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Elgin Christian school reopens with most students attending in personAug 13, 2020 1:00 am - More than 200 students wearing masks and socially distancing from peers returned to classrooms Thursday for the first day of in-person instruction at Westminster Christi...
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Preckwinkle: Dramatic rise in suicides among Cook County's Black populationAug 08, 2020 1:00 am - Cook County is seeing a dramatic increase in suicides among Black residents. "There have been more suicides so far this year in the Black community than in all of 2019,"...
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What remote learning will look like this school yearAug 08, 2020 1:00 am - Kitchen tables and family dens again will serve as desks and classrooms when many suburban schools begin classes remotely starting this week. Districts that planned on r...
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U-46 board considers renewing school resource officers amid concernsAug 04, 2020 1:00 am - Officials at Elgin-area schools are considering renewing contracts with local police departments for the school resource officer program. Officers currently are assigne...
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Illinois' largest teachers union sets up its own panel to judge school reopening safetyAug 04, 2020 1:00 am - The state's largest teachers union is creating a medical review panel it says will judge whether individual school districts' reopening plans are safe. The 135,000-membe...
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How schools are gearing up for an eventual return to classroomsAug 03, 2020 5:30 am - Hand sanitizer. Face masks. Paper towels. Disinfectant sprays. Plexiglass partitions. Suburban school districts are stocking up on these and other essentials as they gea...
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Organization says need for ethnic organ donors criticalAug 01, 2020 1:00 am - Minorities make up nearly 60% of people who need organ transplants in the U.S., but only a third of registered donors. In Illinois, 1,450 Blacks, 800 Latinos and 240 As...
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Muslims gather across suburbs for socially distanced Eid prayersJul 31, 2020 1:00 am - Muslims gathered across the suburbs Friday for socially distanced communal prayers to observe the festival of Eid al-Adha. The Festival of Sacrifice, as it is known, mar...
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District 300 switching to online learning for school startJul 28, 2020 11:00 pm - Algonquin-based Community Unit District 300 leaders have reversed an earlier plan to reopen schools for in-person instruction and instead will start the school year Aug....