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Niles West puts football coach on leave; athletes make emotional appeal for his return
A large group of Niles West High School football team players and their parents asked Niles Township High School District 219 Board of Education members at their Oct. 8 meeting to quickly reinstate head football coach Nick Torresso after he was placed on mandatory leave. Torresso was placed on leave on Oct. 2, according to the district’s director of communications, Takumi Iseda. Naema Abraham, ...
Grammy winning artist Common expanding South Side school, gives exclusive tour of new space
Grammy-award-winning artist Common is expanding his charter school on the South Side, and he gave ABC7 Chicago an exclusive tour of the new space.The expansion means more students can attend, and explore the arts.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watchArt in Motion, which is in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood, is only about 2 miles from where Common grew up. During that time, there were very few schools for the arts, and hardly any on the South Side.The expansion is all about a dream realized, and more opportunities for youth."We are letting our city know: This is a...
‘No overnight encampments’: Chicago universities tell students where they can and can’t exercise free speech
Last week, at a teach-in about the history of Palestine at the University of Chicago, an exhausted Professor Eman Abdelhadi told a crowd of faculty members and students, “I don’t know what there is left to say.”. For a year, Abdelhadi has spoken out against Israel’s attacks on...
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