Black students, constituting 5.2% or 12 of Belle Aire Elementary School's total student population of 232, accounted for two out of the six total suspensions (33.3%) in the 2021-22 school year, averaging one suspension per six students, according to the latest student discipline report by the Illinois State Board of Education.
Mark Rice, a candidate for the 8th Congressional District, has criticized his opponent, U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), following the sentencing of former FBI counterintelligence chief Charles McGonigal to 50 months in prison for conspiring with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.