Chicago, IL
Title IX paved the way for Sterling High girls’ basketball team’s historic 1st championship win
Handed by Congress on June 23, 1972, Title IX is just 37 phrases lengthy: “No individual in america shall, on the premise of intercourse, be excluded from participation in, be denied the advantages of, or be subjected to discrimination below any training program or exercise receiving federal monetary help.”
The legislation was met by resistance, but additionally supplied alternative for ladies to play the video games they beloved at ranges they by no means imagined.
Amy Eschleman, now Chicago’s first girl, was simply 10 years outdated when Title IX was handed, however it did not take lengthy for her to comprehend it was a sport changer.
“In elementary faculty there was a boys crew however not a ladies crew,” she recalled.
She was the one freshman on the 1977 Sterling Excessive crew, dubbed the “Golden Women,” who put collectively an ideal season on their solution to changing into the primary ladies state champions within the state of Illinois.
“It was 45 years in the past this April, and I bear in mind it prefer it was yesterday. It felt like our complete city got here downstate to help us. It nonetheless provides me goosebumps,” she stated. “All of us felt that it gave us these life expertise that we by no means would have gotten if we hadn’t gone by way of that have.”
“I can not actually describe the facility you’ve as a child to placed on a uniform with a quantity that was your quantity,” recalled Melissa Isaacson.
Now a journalism professor at Northwestern College, Isaacson documented her historical past within the e book “State,” which tells the story of her transformational hoops profession at Niles West Excessive Faculty. She felt the identical factor Eschleman did when her Niles West Excessive Faculty ladies crew gained the state championship the next 12 months.
“Whereas we could not recite the Title IX legislation, all of us may let you know the second after we discovered we had the state championship, the chills all of us had collectively to go from that, flash ahead to that same–in the identical gymnasium that we weren’t allowed in simply 4 years earlier is one thing that’s indescribable, however will at all times be inside me,” she stated.
And whereas the uniforms do not match anymore and the photographs have gathered mud, the chance actually modified the course of those ladies’s lives.
“It made me really feel completely different about myself. It made me see how necessary it’s to be a part of a crew. And I credit score basketball and sports activities, organized crew sports activities, for giving that to me and seeing a future, perhaps, past my little small city,” Eschleman stated.
“The concept I may stroll into NFL and NBA locker rooms wouldn’t in one million years have occurred to me if I hadn’t gained that confidence, that self-image, and never simply profitable the state championship however being allowed to play for it,” stated Isaacson.
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Chicago, IL
2 women found dead in Englewood home after fire, Chicago fire officials say
CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago hearth officers mentioned two ladies have been discovered lifeless in an Englewood house after a home hearth.
The fireplace broke out Tuesday night at a home within the 7200-block of South Wolcott, Chicago hearth officers mentioned.
The fireplace was struck out at about 9:10 p.m., CFD mentioned.
After the fireplace was out, firefighters discovered two grownup feminine victims lifeless within the wreckage.
It was not instantly clear if the ladies died within the hearth or earlier than the fireplace. No additional particulars have been launched.
The Chicago Hearth Division has not but commented on any potential causes for the fireplace or mentioned in the event that they consider it was suspicious.
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Chicago, IL
3 women united by Highland Park shooting now lobby for assault weapon ban
HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (WLS) — Three ladies and their households had been good strangers up till the second tragedy introduced them collectively within the aftermath of Highland Park’s July 4th parade.
As Thanksgiving approaches, they’re united in goal and in gratitude for probably the most primary of all issues: life.
“I believed I used to be going to die,” Highland Park capturing survivor Liz Turnipseed mentioned. “That I used to be going to put there and I used to be going to bleed out and I used to be going to die.”
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“I used to be on the parade with my three grownup kids, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old grand child,” mentioned Debra Baum, with the Highland Park Gun Violence Mission. “Our complete household may have been worn out.”
“July third I had 70 folks at my home and the following day our life bought flipped the other way up,” capturing survivor Lindsay Hartman mentioned. “So I simply know for me, I am attempting to take pleasure in it and never spend an excessive amount of time previously.”
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For Lindsay, not spending an excessive amount of time previously means internet hosting Thanksgiving for 30. Liz, who was one of many almost 50 folks injured that day, nonetheless wants a cane to get round, so she’ll be catering the meal and having her complete household fly in. Debra shall be coming along with the identical household she was with on July 4.
“There are numerous households in Highland Park that do not have folks with them this Thanksgiving due to what occurred,” Baum mentioned. “It is a very weighty realization.”
However there’s additionally gratitude for random issues and other people, like for the proper strangers who took in Liz’s 3-year-old daughter for a few hours after she was shot. And the neighbor she’d by no means met earlier than who lent her a step stool for her mattress.
Turning ache into goal is what unites these ladies now as they foyer for an assault weapons ban in Congress. As a result of whereas life for them won’t ever be the identical, it does transfer on.
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Chicago, IL
Biden to extend student loan repayment freeze as relief program is tied up in courts
WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden administration is but once more extending the pause on federal scholar mortgage funds, a profit that started in March 2020 to assist individuals who have been struggling financially because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a supply conversant in the plan mentioned.
The Division of Training will announce it’s extending the freeze one other six months with the primary funds due two months after June 30, the supply mentioned, until a Supreme Courtroom resolution on the president’s scholar mortgage aid program comes first.
The administration had beforehand mentioned the latest extension could be the final, and funds have been scheduled to restart in January.
However the administration had additionally meant for its scholar mortgage forgiveness program to start canceling as much as $20,000 in debt for low- and middle-income debtors earlier than January. This system has but to be carried out because it faces a number of authorized challenges.
This story is breaking and can be up to date.
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