CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2009. Governor Pat Quinn today joined hundreds of Illinois college students at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Student Center in an effort to rescue the Illinois Monetary Award Program (MAP). Those attending the Governor’s Town Hall Meeting to Save College Scholarships rally called on the Illinois[Read More…]
Day: September 29, 2009
$6.6 Million in Striving Readers Grants Awarded to Help Struggling Readers
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2009. Eight states will receive $6.6 million in Striving Readers grants to improve the literacy skills of struggling adolescent readers, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today. The purpose of the Striving Readers program is to raise reading achievement in Title I-eligible middle and high schools[Read More…]
Chicago FBI: Public’s Help Sought in Search for Cicero Murder Suspect
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is asking for the public’s help in locating and apprehending a former Cicero man who is wanted in connection with the 1996 shooting death of a Chicago restaurant owner. PEDRO AGUILAR, age[Read More…]
Sting Nets Suburban Chiropractor for Alleged Unpaid Child Support
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2009. A suburban chiropractor, wanted in Champaign County after allegedly not paying thousands of dollars in child support, was arrested after an officer from the Cook County Sheriff’s Department posed as a patient in need of chiropractic care. Gaylen Bohlin, 69, of LaPorte, Ind., was arrested Thursday at[Read More…]