Each year for the past six years, the City of Joliet has planted 1,000 trees as part of a 10-year tree growing contract. This planting program was approved by the Mayor and City Council to replace thousands of trees removed due to the emerald ash borer.
Fall tree planting begins
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Joliet Halloween 2021 hours
The City of Joliet is celebrating spooky season with the 2021 Halloween/Fall Décor Map. This easy-to-use map will make finding fiendish and fun Halloween and fall decorations within the City of Joliet simple for everyone.
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OP-ED: Successful Black American-Owned Business Leaders Unfairly Targeted
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Across the nation as business owners are attempting to recover from the COVID-19 global pandemic, African American business leaders who are defying the odds with their financial success are often targeted by “mainstream media” and others who summarily and unfairly castigate Black business leaders’ economic achievements. Is this syndrome racially motivated? The simple answer is “Yes.”
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Moratorium on evictions ends in Illinois
The eviction moratorium, which ended last month in most states throughout the country, ended Oct. 3 in Illinois.
Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) on Friday announced that more than $443 million in emergency rental assistance has been paid on behalf of 49,100 households through the Illinois Rental Payment Program (ILRPP).
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JJC celebrating Diversity Week, Latinx Heritage Month
Joliet Junior College is conducting multiple events in observance of Diversity Week and Latinx Heritage Month through mid-October.
Diversity Week events Oct. 4-8 are sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Compliance, Office of Student Activities and the Center for Multicultural Access and Success.
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AG Raoul announces $56 million settlement with pharmacy benefit manager
Attorney General Kwame Raoul late last week announced a more than $56 million settlement with the largest Medicaid managed care organization in the United States. The settlement resolves an investigation the Attorney General’s office conducted into whether, as a pharmacy benefit manager for the state of Illinois, Centene Corp. (Centene) entities submitted inaccurate billing requests to the state.
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VVSD Early Childhood Center dedicated to honor former Supt. James A. Mitchem, Jr.
Dr. James A. Mitchem Jr. served as VVSD Superintendent of Schools for a decade, and during that time, he was the driving force behind establishing a building whose sole purpose is to serve VVSD’s youngest learners. His vision came to fruition in 2017 when the newly remodeled Valley View Early Childhood Center opened.
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Help Find Daniel Robinson: Search continues for Missing Geologist, 24
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Unsurprised that there was no updated information from the Buckeye police about the case, the family has sought its own private investigator to proceed with exhausting all efforts and resources to search for the missing geologist. The father, David Robinson II, has taken the helms of locating his son. He recounts receiving a call from his daughter, who lives in Phoenix, on June 23, alerting him in South Carolina that Daniel was missing; she was informed by one of Daniel’s coworkers.
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OP-ED: Mills College in Oakland — Former Black Women’s Collective President Weighs in
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Let’s take a closer look at the current deal the administration has with Northeastern. It is truly nonsensical. First, it is troubling that the AAMC has yet to be presented with a strategic plan or detailed proposal for this “alliance” in practice. From what I gather, Northeastern is trying to absorb Mills. This is not a partnership or an alliance, but an acquisition that could lead to the dissolution of Mills in a very short time, similar to the situation with NCH, without any third-party oversight to hold NU to its end of the bargain.
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COMMENTARY: These Sisters Want You to Find Your “WOMANISH”
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The immersive exhibit is made up of 15 photo-friendly, very Instagrammable installation rooms that explore the meaning of womanhood from different perspectives and features the work of women artists from all over the world, highlighting an “ish.”
