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Reminder: 8/27/21 Enews From CCSD93
5th grade Band and 4th grade Orchestra beginners are starting their instrumental music experience this week and next week!
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Schaumburg Progress Report for August 20, 2021
To accommodate residents whose regularly scheduled brush pickup had already passed prior to last week’s storms, the Village of Schaumburg's Engineering and Public Works Department has added an additional collection week to its summer brush collection schedule the week of August 23 for the purple and red collection zones.
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Economic Development Update July 30, 2021
As of July 28, 2021, DuPage County’s COVID-19 community transmission is now at Substantial level per Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The recent rise in cases and hospitalizations is likely attributed to the more contagious Delta variant which has now become the more predominant variant across the country. Still, vaccines continue to be the best form of protection against COVID-19, including the Delta variant and help prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death.
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Frederick Douglass Foundation official decries castration remark
Frederick Douglass Foundation president Babette Holder wants to see state Rep. Dianne Pappas (D-Itasca) formally censored for recent remarks about “castration” as a way of dealing with the state’s growing problem of abortion.
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DuPage GOP maintains pivotal role in state government, local chairman says
The more things change, the more they stay the same, DuPage GOP Chairman Brian Krajewski said in a recent press release.
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Unpaid fines for St Charles-based campaign committee totaled $225 in January 2017
One campaign committee in St Charles has overdue fines amounting to a total of $225, records obtained by the DuPage Policy Journal show.
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Analysis: Sales tax funded 4 percent of City of St. Charles budget in 2016
The City of St. Charles' local sales tax brought in $5,993,378 in 2016, according to Illinois State Comptroller revenue data.
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Analysis: Of uncounted Glen Ellyn school tax hike referendum votes, more would be cast by Republicans than Democrats
Of the 51 votes still to be counted in the razor thin Glen Ellyn School District 41 tax hike referendum, twice as many are from Republicans than Democrats.
Sports
District 88 Foundation to honor former coach, counselor with basketball tournament
A charitable organization supporting a local school district will host a basketball tournament to benefit students as well as to pay homage to a departed colleague.
Government
Ives backs no-tax alternative to Senate 'Grand Bargain'
With the so-called 'Grand Bargain' compromise budget deal expected on the Senate floor next week, an Illinois House representative from Wheaton says it's harder to get people to understand an alternative proposal than it is to get it to the House floor.
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Four high schools leave Upstate Eight for New DuPage Valley Conference
Four high schools from the Tri-City area are leaving the Upstate Eight Conference to join a new eight-team athletic conference.
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New state Republican leader ready to unite with GOP, push reform agenda
The time is ripe for GOP legislators in Springfield to unite behind the party's agenda for reform, the newly named assistant House Republican Conference leader, a lawmaker from Lombard, said during a recent interview.
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46th District Illinois House hopeful backs 'common sense' Chicago recall bill
GLEN ELLYN – Heidi Holan, who is vying to represent the 46th District in the Illinois House, is one of 16 GOP state legislative candidates backing a proposed bill that would allow Chicago voters to recall Mayor Rahm Emanuel.