Articles filed under Diversity
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Healing together: Native American veterans gather at CantignyJul 29, 2024 9:42 am - Native American veterans from throughout the country joined together for healing during the 10th Anniversary National Gathering of American Indian Veterans at Cantigny in...
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Attacked by right wing, Deere farm machinery dumps diversity effortsJul 17, 2024 10:27 am - Deere & Co., the world’s top farm machinery maker, is pulling back from diversity measures in the face of conservative criticism, the second agriculture-related company i...
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‘Time to remember what it is to be an American’: Aurora mayor hosts Black delegates at RNCJul 16, 2024 6:59 pm - Once critical of Donald Trump, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin Tuesday hosted an event at the Republican National Convention to honor black delegates.
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Des Plaines shrine welcomes national pilgrimage with special MassJun 27, 2024 5:58 pm - A few hundred members of the Catholic faithful gathered Thursday at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines for a special Mass held as part of a national pilgr...
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Along for the Ride: How adaptive biking enriches the lives of people with disabilitiesJun 26, 2024 6:00 am - Two Chicago-based nonprofits with suburban connections — Out Our Front Door and Envision Unlimited — are pioneering adaptive biking to deliver outdoor experiences, seemingly unattainable not long ago, to individuals with special needs.
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Climbing wall a highlight of Abilities ExpoJun 23, 2024 7:13 am - An adaptive climbing wall was among the highlights of the three-day Abilities Expo at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center this weekend.
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‘This is not a moment of pride for anybody’: McHenry County Board scales back Pride Month resolutionJun 21, 2024 7:11 am - The McHenry County Board recognized June as Pride Month, albeit with a scaled-back version of a proclamation.
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Can a marriage survive a gender transition? Yes, and even thrive. How these couples make it workJun 20, 2024 7:18 am - Marissa Lasoff-Santos and the person she would marry quickly fell head over heels in love. Lasoff-Santos was a gay woman. Her girlfriend was a bisexual woman — or so they...
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On Juneteenth, a journalist honors ancestor at ceremony for Black soldiers who served in Civil WarJun 19, 2024 2:15 pm - WASHINGTON — It was the middle of the night in the summer of 2021 when I finally found the missing piece of my family history. My great-great-great-great grandfather Hewl...
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Caitlin Clark and the WNBA are getting a lot of attention. It's about far more than basketballJun 19, 2024 10:59 am - NEW YORK — Oh, you thought going to a WNBA basketball game might be an escape from the arguments and polarization that are so common in American life these days? Ha, good...