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Monthly Archives: November 2015

Having the Sex Talk with Teens Encourages Safer Sex

Having the Sex Talk with Teens Encourages Safer Sex

Discussions about safer sex between parents and their adolescent children—particularly mothers and daughters—have a modest but significant effect on safer sex practices among teens, ScienceDaily reports. Publishing their findings in… Read more »

CPS Students Set New Records on AP Exams

CPS Students Set New Records on AP Exams

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced that more than 20,700 students took at least one Advanced Placement (AP) exam last year, an increase of more than 4 percent from the previous… Read more »

Cicero’s Aburto Coauthors Top Paper at National Conference

Cicero’s Aburto Coauthors Top Paper at National Conference

Northern Michigan University associate professor Jessica Thompson and undergraduate student Jose Aburto from Cicero, Ill., won the Top Paper in Environmental Communication Award at the National Communication Association Conference in… Read more »

Illinois Parents, Students Park the PARCC: Students opt out, State Board of Ed refuses to release data

Illinois Parents, Students Park the PARCC: Students opt out, State Board of Ed refuses to release data

At least 20,000 students in Illinois public schools did not participate in PARCC testing this past spring, according to More Than A Score, a coalition fighting high-stakes standardized testing in… Read more »

Martinez Calls for Pension Systems to Promote Diversity During Hearing

Martinez Calls for Pension Systems to Promote Diversity During Hearing

Majority Caucus Whip Iris Y. Martinez (D-Chicago) participated in a two-day Senate Special Committee on Pensions and Investments Hearing this week regarding the diversity of pension investment managers. “It became… Read more »

Madigan Releases Annual Holiday Safe Shopping Guide

Madigan Releases Annual Holiday Safe Shopping Guide

Attorney General Lisa Madigan released her annual Safe Shopping Guide highlighting hazardous toys, children’s products and household items that have been recalled over the past year to help Illinois families… Read more »

Jacob Meister Collects Signatures in Bid to Bring Accountability, Transparency to the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court

Jacob Meister Collects Signatures in Bid to Bring Accountability, Transparency to the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court

Jacob Meister filed nominating petitions for the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County. “Now that our nominating petitions have been filed, we start our campaign to… Read more »

Illinois American Water Names Mike Smyth Vice President of Operations

Illinois American Water Names Mike Smyth Vice President of Operations

Mike Smyth has been promoted to Vice President of Operations for Illinois American Water, effective November 9th, 2015. Smyth has served as sr. operations manager of field service and production… Read more »

Congressman Danny Davis, Commissioner Barbara McGowan Meet to Discuss MWRD Initiatives

Congressman Danny Davis, Commissioner Barbara McGowan Meet to Discuss MWRD Initiatives

Commissioner Barbara McGowan, Vice President of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, recently met with Congressman Danny Davis at the Congressman’s Washington, D.C. office to discuss the MWRD’s… Read more »

Norridge Welcomes New AT&T Store

Norridge Welcomes New AT&T Store

Visitors to AT&T’s newly expanded Norridge store will be some of the first to experience a shopping transformation. The store at 4155 ½ N. Harlem Ave. is designed so customers… Read more »