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Cheryle Jackson Unveils Senate Race Endorsements, Name Change

Huffington Post | Posted 10.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Bobby Rush, Alexi Giannoulias, Cheryle Jackson, Cheryle Jackson Senate, James Meeks, Cheryle Robinson Jackson, Illinois Senate 2010, Illinois Senate Race, David Hoffman, Chicago News

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheryle Jackson unveiled a couple of big endorsements and a name change this week. Jackson, the president of the Chi...

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Quinn Cutting Out Madigan, Taking Tax Hike Push Directly To Lawmakers

Chicago Sun-Times | Tim Novak | Posted 08.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Budget, Pat Quinn Tax Increase, Pat Quinn, Michael Madigan, Illinois Income Tax Increase, Pat Quinn Budget, James Meeks, Quinn Madigan, Chicago News

Gov. Quinn is bypassing House Speaker Michael Madigan and other legislative leaders and appealing directly to lawmakers in hopes of getting his propos...

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Democratic Senator Meeks On Budget Mess: 'This Is A Failure Of The Democratic Party'

SouthtownStar | Phil Kadner | Posted 07.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Budget Deficit, Illinois Budget Cuts, Illinois Income Tax Increase, James Meeks, Illinois General Assembly, Chicago News

Democrats don't deserve to be re-elected in Illinois. No politician should serve more than eight years in office. It's time to let the entire state go...

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Senator Meeks To Chicago Aldermen: 'Don't Come See Me, I Ain't Got No Money'

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Meeks Aldermen, Carrie Austin, James Meeks, Freddrenna Lyle, Jessica Dixon, Illinois Politics, Chicago Clout, Chicago News

Illinois Sen. James Meeks told visiting Chicago aldermen not to come see him while they were in Springfield Wednesday, saying to the Windy City lawmak...

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James Meeks Weighing Another Governor Run

Chicago Sun-Times | Carol Marin | Posted 06.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: James Meeks, Illinois Governor Race, Illinois Governor 2010, James Meeks Governor, Chicago News

But there is another potential contender [for Governor] in the wings. One who is seriously considering running -- but not as a Democrat, not as a Repu...

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Burris, Stroger Facing Challenges From Black Women As Machine Feels Heat

Chicago Sun-Times | Laura Washington | Posted 04.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cook County Board President Race, Cheryle Jackson, Todd Stroger, Burris Senate Seat, James Meeks, Toni Preckwinkle, Roland Burris, Democratic Machine, Chicago News

It's a heady time in African-American politics. Presidents, senators and congressmen are feeling the burn. The old political hands are nervous. The yo...

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New Senate President Says Democrats 'Have Embarrassed Ourselves' (VIDEO)

Chicago Tribune | Rick Pearson | Posted 12.25.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Springfield Gridlock, Madigan Blagojevich, Senate Infighting, Cullerton Salem, Rod Blagojevich, Salem Baptist Church, James Clayborne, James Meeks, Blagojevich Madigan Feud, John Cullerton, Chicago News

Incoming Illinois Senate President John Cullerton said Sunday the Democrats who control state government should be embarrassed by the constant fighti...

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School Funding Protest Spawns Friendships And Action

Chicago Tribune | Tara Malone | Posted 12.19.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago School Boycott, Meeks Boycott, James Meeks School Boycott, CPS Boycott Effects, Glenbrook South High School, CPS Boycott, New Trier High School, Chicago Schools, Chicago Education, James Meeks, Illinois Council of Students, New Trier, Meeks New Trier, Chicago News

With grins and a familiar nod, a dozen teenagers came together this weekend for what has become a standing date since nearly 1,000 Chicago students sk...

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Citizens Denied the Vote: Expand Registration Grace Period To Election Day

Dan Johnson-Weinberger | Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Election Reform, Democracy, 2008 Election, Voting, Same Day Voter Registration, Illinois Voter Registration, Robin Kelly, James Meeks, Alexi Giannoulias, Illinois Voter Registration Deadlines, Illinois Voters, Chicago News

Let's extend our registration grace period through election day in 2010 and stop excluding citizens from voting.

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Meeks Calls For Holiday Shopping Boycott

Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.24.2008 | Chicago

Read More: James Meeks Boycott, James Meeks School Boycott, Save Our Schools Now, James Meeks Shopping Boycott, James Meeks, Chicago News

State Sen. James Meeks (D-Chicago) today issued his latest call to demonstrate for school-funding reform, this time urging a boycott of downtown Chica...

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Meeks Leads 1,500 In School Funding Protest At Wrigley

Posted 11.02.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois School Funding, Meeks School Funding, Meeks Cubs Protest, James Meeks, Meeks School Protest, Wrigley Field Protest, School Funding Gap, Meeks Wrigley Field Protest, Chicago News

The rev. and state Sen. James Meeks led nearly 1,500 protesters outside Wrigley Field Tuesday night in a bid to draw national attention to his ongoing...

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Meeks Scaling Back Cubs Playoff Protest

Posted 11.01.2008 | Chicago

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Hundreds of people will gather around Wrigley Field during Wednesday's playoff game to protest school funding inequities, but they will not ring the s...

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Daley To Meeks: Don't Bring Protest To Playoffs

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 10.25.2008 | Chicago

Read More: CPS Funding, Cubs Playoffs Protest, Chicago School Funding Gap, James Meeks, Mayor Daley, Meeks Daley, Chicago News

Mayor Daley on Wednesday urged state Sen. James Meeks (D-Chicago) not to rain on the Cubs parade -- by having 6,000 protesters ring Wrigley Field duri...

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Don't Believe School Funding is a Problem? Read This.

Lorraine Forte | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Education, Economy, Chicago School Funding, Cheryle Jackson, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago School Funding Gap, Illinois School Funding, James Meeks, Chicago School Achievement Gap, Civil Rights, Cps, Chicago News

The data is shocking: If the students who enrolled in kindergarten in Chicago Public Schools in 1994 had, instead, enrolled in top-spending Lake Forest-Libertyville schools, they would have reaped the benefit of an extra $36 billion-worth of education by the time they graduated.

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Duncan Urges Income Tax Hike For Schools

Chi Town Daily News | Paul D. Bowker | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Arne Duncan Tax Hike, Chicago School Funding, Chicago Taxes, Arne Duncan, Chicago Public Schools, Illinois School Funding, James Meeks, Cps, Illinois House of Representatives, Chicago News

Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan told state legislators yesterday that a "modest income tax hike" should be considered so that school funding ...

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Meeks Taking School Protest To Wrigley

Chicago Sun-Times | Rosalind Rossi | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Cubs Playoffs, James Meeks School Boycott, Wrigley Field, School Funding Wrigley Field, Illinois School Funding, Meeks School Funding, Meeks Wrigley Field, James Meeks, Wrigley Field Protest, School Funding Gap, Cubs Playoffs Protest, Chicago News

Six thousand protesters, wearing bright orange T-shirts, could ring Wrigley Field during the first Chicago Cubs playoff game, under a plan by state Se...

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No Brown Rings and No Education Dollars in Chicago's Olympic Bid

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago

Read More: 2016 Olympics, 2016 Olympics Bid Committee, Olympics, 2016 Olympics Bid, Patrick Ryan, Chicago 2016, James Meeks, Chicago News

For a bid committee whose web site goes out of its way to tell the story of the 1.8 million Chicagoans of Mexican-American heritage, not a single Hispanic kid made it into the athlete video.

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Meeks Meeting With Blagojevich

Chicago Tribune | Monique Garcia | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Meeks Blago Meeting, Rod Blagojevich, Illinois School Funding, Meeks School Funding, James Meeks, Meeks Blagojevich, Blagojevich School Funding, Meeks and Governor, Chicago News

State Sen. James Meeks is scheduled to meet with Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday to discuss school funding, but don't expect a policy breakthrough from...

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Why Did They Boycott?

Washington Post | Kari Lydersen | Posted 10.06.2008 | Chicago

Read More: School Funding Gap, Chicago Public Schools, Meeks and New Trier, New Trier Boycott Plans, James Meeks, New Trier and Boycott, CPS Boycott Tuesday, CPS Boycott Begins, New Trier Registration, New Trier, CPS Boycott, CPS Funding, School Funding Disparity, Civil Rights, Chicago School Funding, CPS and New Trier, Chicago News

The Washington Post's Kari Lyderson recapped the school boycott led by the rev. and state Sen. James Meeks. She points to Illinois' dismal per-pupil s...

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What Boycott? CPS Claims Record Attendance

Posted 10.06.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago School Funding, School Attendance, Meeks Boycott, Rufus Williams, CPS Boycott, Chicago Public Schools, CPS Attendance, Illinois School Funding, James Meeks, School Boycott, CPS Attendance Record, Cps, Chicago Public School Attendance, Chicago News

Chicago Public Schools officials claimed first-day attendance was record high, despite the two day boycott led by the rev. and state Sen. James Meeks....

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Tinkering Around the Edges Not Enough For Failing Schools

Lorraine Forte | Posted 10.05.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Education, Chicago School Funding, Illinois School Funding, James Meeks, Chicago Schools Funding, Whitney Young, Meeks Boycott, Chicago Public Schools, CPS Boycott, Illinois Schools, Magnet Schools, School Funding Solutions, Charter Schools, School Funding Answers, Oak Park-River Forest High School, Cps, Chicago News

While media eyes have been focused on Meeks' school boycott, another plan from the legislator/mega-church pastor has gotten little publicity: His proposal to allow kids to enroll in any school in the state, without paying tuition.

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Field Trip Over: Meeks' Boycott Kids Finally Out of Media Glare

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.05.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago School Funding, Chicago Public Schools Funding, Chicago Public Schools, Minority Students, School Funding Disparity, Chicago Public Schools Fudning, School Funding Gap, School Boycott, James Meeks School Boycott, James Meeks, Meeks Blagojevich, Blagojevich School Funding, Meeks Boycott, Civil Rights, CPS Boycott, Rod Blagojevich, Meeks New Trier, Cps, Chicago News

Anyone who cares about kids in this town getting a shot at a decent education surely looked at the Chicago Public School children who marched into Winnetka and felt the rumbling pride of civil rights crusades past.

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Meeks, Blago May Actually Meet Over School Funding

Posted 10.04.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago School Funding, New Trier Boycott Plans, New Trier Registration, CPS Boycott Begins, James Meeks, CPS Boycott Tuesday, New Trier, CPS Funding, Civil Rights, Chicago Public Schools, Meeks and New Trier, New Trier and Boycott, School Funding Disparity, CPS Boycott, School Funding Gap, CPS and New Trier, Rod Blagojevich, Chicago News

UPDATE From the AP: Now that state Senator James Meeks has called off his Chicago school boycott, he and Governor Rod Blagojevich are working out a m...

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School Boycott May Not End Funding Inequities, But It Should End The Myth That Black Communities Don't Value Education

Alden Loury | Posted 10.03.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago School Funding, James Meeks, Civil Rights, Chicago School Boycott, Whitney Young, Meeks Boycott, Chicago Public Schools, CPS Boycott, Rod Blagojevich, Emil Jones, Michael Madigan, Foster Park Elementary, School Boycott, School Funding Gap, Cps, Chicago News

I hope the folks standing in opposition understand that the people demanding more money for education aren't just looking for a stage upon which they can grandstand --what they're looking for is a high-quality education, the best that money can buy.

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Meeks, Black Children and a New Trier Education

Dan Johnson-Weinberger | Posted 10.03.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Education, Chicago Public Schools, James Meeks, Barack Obama, Chicago School Boycott, Winnetka, Calumet City Schools, CPS New Trier, Illinois School Funding, New Trier Boycott, New Trier, Chicago Schools Funding, Chicago Public Schools Fudning, Meeks New Trier, Cps, Chicago News

Don't tell me that we can't find a way to provide the children of Sen. Meeks' community with the resources and accountability and culture of academic achievement that we already provide the children of Winnetka.

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