Articles filed under Diversity
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Making black, Latino voices count a focus for suburban groupsApr 04, 2020 1:00 am - Suburban black community leaders are urging African Americans to be counted in the 2020 Census and to register to vote ahead of the November elections. "A lot of people ...
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How suburban faithful will observe a virtual Easter, Passover, RamadanApr 04, 2020 1:00 am - In nearly 25 years, Krys Tischer rarely missed daily communion services or Sunday Mass at Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Church in Arlington Heights. Now, she's on COV...
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Coronavirus crisis hurting Census outreach for LatinosMar 29, 2020 5:00 am - Census 2020 outreach efforts within suburban Latino communities have taken a hit since the coronavirus outbreak. "We are praying for churches to open," says Rosa Lopez, ...
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Suburban mosques cancel Friday prayers amid COVID-19 concernsMar 21, 2020 1:00 am - For the first time, mosques throughout the suburbs temporarily have suspended all congregational prayers, Sunday school classes, youth and children's programs, and nones...
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Mosaic: 100 years after women's suffrage, pay gap remainsMar 15, 2020 1:00 am - As we reach the middle of national Women's History Month, statistics show that women earn 79 cents for every $1 men get paid for the same work with the annual gender wag...
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Why we are exploring our diverse suburban mosaicMar 08, 2020 1:00 am - A confluence of cultures, languages and peoples of varying ethnicities, races and national origins creates a rich suburban mosaic. To better understand and portray the v...
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Suburban Muslim pilgrims 'in limbo' after Saudi Arabia's travel restrictionsMar 04, 2020 12:00 am - Every year during spring break, Omar Hedroug leads a group of suburban Muslim families and youths on a minor pilgrimage to Mecca. Thanks to the coronavirus, this year co...
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How suburban police departments are courting minority recruitsFeb 17, 2020 4:30 am - Ever since Pradeep Singh Deol was old enough to dress up for Halloween, his costume of choice was a police uniform. A Buffalo Grove High School alumnus, Deol now is one...
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Parents voice concerns over District 300 dual language program changesFeb 11, 2020 12:00 am - Proposed changes to a dual language program at a Carpentersville elementary school has some parents up in arms. Algonquin-based Community Unit District 300 wants to cons...
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MLK's daughter calls for 'dismantling, disrupting' systemic racismFeb 06, 2020 12:00 am - Disrupt. Dismantle. Be the light that snuffs out the darkness of racism. That was the message Bernice King, daughter of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., conveyed to...