Illinois
2022 Latinx Heritage Month Celebration
In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, which runs from September 15-October 15, 2022, Illinois State College’s Latin American and Latino/a Research (LALS) will characteristic talks from nationally recognized authors and students, a nationwide museum director, and lectures and panels with alumni, college, and neighborhood members discussing subjects surrounding id.
All occasions are free and open to the general public.
LALS is collaborating with the Metropolis of Bloomington of their first-ever Latinx Heritage Month celebration for a go to from best-selling creator Reyna Grande with a neighborhood speak based mostly on her ebook, A Ballad of Love and Glory. Discover out extra concerning the speak and the ebook membership Illinois State is planning round her go to.
“This 12 months’s Latinx Heritage Month is a critical reflection about borders as a social assemble. We search to handle the U.S./Mexico border, its historical past, and the enforcement of insurance policies that end in widespread struggling. We’re additionally celebrating rising voices of the Latino/a/x expertise which are talking forcefully and passionately about these points,” mentioned Professor Maura-Toro-Morn, director of the College’s LALS. “The occasions discover historical past, neighborhood, and tradition and cross-generational information. We’re additionally excited to deliver to campus a gaggle of Latinx alumni to talk with our college students about careers {and professional} points.”
The celebration will launch with scholar Dr. Michelle Téllez, speaking about her ebook, Border Ladies and the Ladies of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy within the Areas of Neoliberal Neglect. The month may also characteristic lectures by Director of the Nationwide Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Tradition Billy Ocasio, and Dr. Liv Stone. A sequence of Conversando Entre Nosotros all through the month will characteristic alumni, Illinois State college members, and neighborhood members.
These with questions concerning the occasions can contact Lourdes Concepción Cabán at ldconce@ilstu.edu and Toro-Morn at mitmorn@ilstu.edu.
Dr. Michelle Téllez
“Border Ladies and the Ladies of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy within the Areas of Neoliberal Neglect”
September 26, 2022
7 p.m.
Schroeder Corridor, room 238
Dr. Michelle Téllez will inform the story of the neighborhood’s wrestle to carve out house for survival and thrive within the shadows of the U.S.-Mexico geopolitical border. Téllez is an affiliate professor within the Division of Mexican American Research on the College of Arizona. She focuses on transnational neighborhood formations, mothering, and gendered migration alongside the U.S./Mexico borderlands by means of her analysis, public scholarship, and digital humanities work.
With an extended historical past in grassroots organizing tasks and community-based arts and efficiency, Téllez is the co-editor of The Chicana M(different)work Anthology: Porque Sin Madres No Hay Revolución (2019) and is the creator of Border Ladies and the Neighborhood of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy within the Areas of Neoliberal Neglect (2021).
Discover out extra about Téllez’s speak.
Conversando Entre Nosotros
A gathering with Latinx Alumni Community (LAN)
September 30, 2022
6-8 p.m.
Multicultural Heart, ISU Campus
“En la union está la fuerza” is a well-liked Latino saying. The key goal of this program is to develop and foster the private and institutional connections between the Latinx Alumni Affiliation, the Latin American and Latina/o Research program and the Affiliation of Latin American College students (ALAS). ISU alums will share profession alternatives, neighborhood management roles, and provide methods for fulfillment past faculty.
Moderators:
Professor Rocio Rivadeneyra, Illinois State’s School of Arts and Sciences
Professor Maura Toro-Morn, Illinois State’s Latin American and Latino/a Research program
Panelists:
Christina Fontenelle ’14: Christina Fontenelle is a tri-lingual holistic well being coach and is the creator of Aligning Your Inside Self Meditation Journal.
She is the CEO and founding father of two psychological well being corporations, Fontenelle Artwork and Aligning Your Inside Self.
Erika Jimenez ’21: Throughout her time on campus, Erika Jimenez was concerned in ALAS and SABE (Scholar Affiliation of Bilingual Schooling).
She served as a Preview Information for 2020-2021, and was a residential assistant in Manchester Corridor for a TLLC, Instructor Schooling Ground for 2 years.
Simon Rodriguez Jr. ’13 : The son of immigrant mother and father from Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, and born in Aurora, Illinois, Simon Roriguez serves because the Youth Companies Supervisor for the Metropolis of Aurora.
A Fulbright scholarship recipient, Rodriguez was concerned with ALAS and Alpha Psi Lambda, and served as an admissions ambassador whereas at ISU.
Lupe Garcia: Garcia is the present scholarship chair and neighborhood liaison for LAN and works for Heartland Financial institution. Whereas at ISU, Garcia participated in ALAS, was a residential assistant, and a member of Alpha Psi Lambda.
Sonia Castañeda ’22: Sonia Castañeda is from Colombia, South America, the place she acquired her bachelor’s diploma in educating English as a Second Language (ESL), and likewise taught in her dwelling nation for a number of years. She is assistant principal at Dr. Maude A. Sanders Main College in Peoria, Illinois.
Conversando Entre Nosotros: “What’s in a Label? Hispanic, Chicano/ Chicana, Latina/o, Latinx, Latine, or Not one of the Above”
October 4, 2022
7 p.m.
McLean County Museum of Historical past
This panel, ready in collaboration with the Metropolis of Bloomington, can be a dialog concerning the politics of labeling and the way labels are deployed to assemble neighborhood and id. The panel will discover the concept that one label will not be sufficient to grasp the range of points the neighborhood faces.
The occasion is sponsored by Illinois State’s Latin American and Latino Research program and the Group of Latin American Workers (OLE), and the Metropolis of Bloomington’s Human Relations Workplace.
Moderator:
Professor Maura Toro-Morn, Illinois State
Panelists:
Dr. Rocio Rivadeneyra, affiliate dean at Illinois State’s School of Arts and Sciences
Lourdes Concepción-Cabán, doctoral scholar at Illinois State
Raylene Gomez, assistant director of Range and Inclusion at Illinois Wesleyan College
Janeth Montenegro-Marquez, graduate scholar at Illinois State
Dr. Alejandro Enriquez, affiliate professor at Illinois State
Conversando Entre Nosotros: “Popularizing Anarchist Ethics: Autogestión in Mexico Metropolis”
October 7, 2022 3 p.m.
Williams Corridor, room 314, ISU campus
Using intensive archival and oral historical past analysis, Dr. Liv Stone of Illinois State’s Division of Sociology and Anthropology will current a lecture on the precept of autogestión, which has come to indicate an moral apply of non-hierarchical group and anti-capitalist self-determination in Mexico Metropolis. Born in Algeria within the Sixties, the precept was popularized and reworked by means of the punk scene and scholar actions in Mexico Metropolis, and at last got here to be indifferent from its anarcho-syndicalist roots and re-articulated by means of city Zapatismo.
The Ballad of Love and Glory with Reyna Grande
October 15, 2022
6-8 p.m.
Miller Park Pavilion, 1020 S. Morris Ave. in Bloomington
Internationally acclaimed creator Reyna Grande will give a Neighborhood E book Lecture based mostly on her current ebook, A Ballad of Love and Glory, set in the course of the Mexican American Struggle within the 1840s.
Grande is the creator of the bestselling memoir, The Distance Between Us, (2012) the place she writes about her life earlier than and after she arrived in the US from Mexico as an undocumented baby immigrant. Her books have been adopted because the widespread studying choice by colleges, schools, and cities throughout the nation.
Grande has been honored with an American E book Award, the El Premio Aztlán Literary Award, and the Worldwide Latino E book Award. In 2012, she was a finalist for the distinguished Nationwide E book Critics Circle Awards. In 2015 she was honored with a Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature and a Latino Spirit Award in 2021. The younger reader’s model of The Distance Between Us acquired a 2017 Honor E book Award for the Américas Award for Youngsters’s and Younger Grownup Literature and a 2016 Eureka! Honor Awards from the California Studying Affiliation, and an Worldwide Literacy Affiliation Youngsters’s E book Award 2017.
Discover out extra concerning the Grande speak.
Nationwide Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Tradition lecture
October 18, 2022
7 p.m.
Williams Corridor, room 307, Illinois State College campus
Billy Ocasio is the present president and chief government officer of the Nationwide Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Tradition in Chicago (NMPRAC), which is dedicated to the promotion, integration, and development of Puerto Rican arts and tradition. The museum presents exhibitions and programming created to reinforce the visibility and significance of the wealthy Puerto Rican arts custom.
Earlier than arriving on the NMPRAC, Ocasio served because the Metropolis of Chicago alderman from the twenty sixth ward from 1994-2009. He was the chairman of the Human Relations Committee, and likewise served on committees for funds and authorities operations, training, power, environmental safety, public utilities, finance and housing/actual property.
Hostile Terrain artwork exhibition
November 1-4, 2022
Artwork Gallery at Julian Corridor, room 97, Illinois State College campus
Hostile Terrain is a participatory artwork exhibition organized by the Undocumented Migration Venture (UMP). The exhibit goals to light up the humanitarian disaster occurring at the US’ border, a disaster that has claimed over 3,000 lives because the Nineteen Nineties and continues to take action by means of the immigration enforcement technique referred to as “Prevention By way of Deterrence” (PTD). Because of heightened safety measures at city factors of entry, undocumented migrants have been funneled by means of extraordinarily treacherous environments, land dubbed as “Hostile Terrain” by U.S. Border Patrol.
Desmond Claude scored a season-high 31 points to lead USC to an 82-72 win over No. 13 Illinois on Saturday in Champaign.
Wesley Yates III had 15 points — shooting 7 of 8 from the field — while Rashaun Agee had 13 points and eight rebounds for the Trojans (10-6, 2-3 Big Ten).
Illinois (12-4, 4-2) had a five-game winning streak snapped. Ben Humrichous had 15 points, while Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn and Tre White each scored 11.
Kasparas Jakucionis, the Illini’s leading scorer, missed his second straight game because of a forearm injury suffered Jan. 5 against Washington.
Takeaways
Illinois: The Illini have gotten off to a slow start in each game without Jakucionis. They trailed Penn State by six points early Wednesday before winning 91-52. They were down by nine points early to USC and never did get their offense going without their scoring and assist leader. They were 7 of 32 on 3-pointers.
USC: The Trojans didn’t get to the free-throw line very often. They were 9 of 11 on foul shots to Illinois’ 19 of 21. But they shot 52% to Illinois’ 37% and outrebounded the Illini 37-34. Illinois came into the game averaging 45.9 rebounds per game, best in the nation.
Key moment
The game was tied at 57 with 8:46 left. USC went on a 13-3 run to move in front 70-60 with 5:12 to go and Illinois didn’t threaten after that.
Key stat
Claude shot 12 for 20 from the field and made all seven of his free throws. Agee also was a shooting star. The graduate student sank three triples after making two all season and six in his career.
Up next
Southern California hosts Iowa on Tuesday night.
Illinois visits Indiana on Tuesday night.
Saint Joseph’s 93, Loyola 57
Xzayvier Brown scored 20 points as Saint Joseph’s rolled to a 93-57 victory over Loyola on Saturday in Philadelphia.
Brown went 8 of 16 from the field (3 for 6 from 3-point range) for the Hawks (11-6, 3-2 Atlantic 10 Conference). Derek Simpson added 19 points and six rebounds. Erik Reynolds II hit four 3-pointers and scored 18.
The Ramblers (10-6, 1-2) were led by Sheldon Edwards with 12 points. Jayden Dawson added 12 points and Miles Rubin scored 10.
Saint Joseph’s took the lead with 19:12 remaining in the first half and did not relinquish it. Reynolds led the team in scoring with 15 points in the first half to help put them up 53-29 at the break.
Bradley 61, UIC 60
Zek Montgomery led Bradley with 15 points and Duke Deen scored the game-winning 3-pointer with two seconds remaining as the Braves knocked off host UIC 61-60 on Saturday.
Montgomery shot 5 for 10 (2 for 4 from 3-point range) and 3 of 5 from the free-throw line for the Braves (14-3, 5-1 Missouri Valley Conference). Deen scored 14 points and added three steals. Corey Thomas shot 2 of 2 from the field and 7 for 7 from the line to finish with 11 points.
Jordan Mason led the way for the Flames (11-6, 3-3) with 15 points and two steals. Ahmad Henderson II added 13 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and two steals for UIC. Sasa Ciani also recorded 11 points and 11 rebounds.
Both teams next play Wednesday. Bradley hosts Indiana State and UICsquares off against Murray State at home.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA – SEPTEMBER 16: Head coach Thomas Hammock of the Northern Illinois Huskies watches … [+]
On Thursday night, Northern Illinois football coach Thomas Hammock was in Orlando, Fla., to support two players who are competing in Saturday’s Hula Bowl, a postseason game for NFL draft prospects. Still, Hammock watched the College Football Playoff semifinal that took place about 220 miles south in Miami Gardens.
Hammock usually doesn’t care who wins games not involving his team. But he was happy on Thursday when Notre Dame kicker Mitch Jeter made a 41-yard field goal with seven seconds remaining, clinching the Irish’s 27-24 victory over Penn State and securing a spot in the national title game on Jan. 20.
Four months ago, Northern Illinois’s Cade Haberman blocked Jeter’s 62-yard attempt as time expired, giving the Huskies an improbable 16-14 victory over Notre Dame, which was favored by four touchdowns. Since then, the Fighting Irish (14-1) have won 13 consecutive games, the longest streak in the Football Bowl Subdivision, while Northern Illinois continues to be mentioned as the only team to defeat Notre Dame this season.
“It definitely comes up a lot more outside of our building,” Hammock said in a telephone interview on Friday. “You get in the season and you play the game and you then move on to the next one, but I’m certainly excited about what Notre Dame has been able to do. Hopefully they can finish it off on January 20th.”
Hammock said NIU hung with the Irish because of its offensive and defensive lines and because it had no turnovers while intercepting Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard twice. The second pick came with 5:55 left and gave Northern Illinois the ball at the 50-yard line. Eleven plays later, Kanon Woodill connected on a 35-yard game-winning field goal. It was NIU’s first victory over a top-10 team and first win over a ranked team in 21 years.
“I told them all week, ‘We don’t need luck. We’ve just got to be our best,’” an emotional Hammock told NBC’s Zora Stephenson in a postgame interview. “They were their best today, and we were able to get it done.”
After the Notre Dame game, NIU lost two in a row and four of its next six. But the Huskies rebounded to win four of their last five games, including a 28-20 victory over Fresno State in the Potato Bowl two days before Christmas. NIU finished 8-5, the third time in the past four years they were above .500.
Over the past couple of months, as Hammock and his staff have recruited via the high school ranks and transfer portal, they have pointed to the Notre Dame game. Players have responded in kind, saying they heard about NIU thanks to that win.
“It helps us tremendously, just showing what we are capable of doing on a big stage, Hammock said. “I think that that makes a lot of young men excited about the opportunity to potentially come here, and now with the transfer portal and other ways that you can improve your roster, we have a great opportunity here to continue to get better and build for the future.”
This week, NIU announced it will be joining the Mountain West Conference for football-only starting in 2026. It is a major step up for the Huskies, who have played in the Mid-American Conference since 1997.
“That’s a huge positive for our program,” Hammock said. “I think the Mountain West obviously puts a big investment into football, and we wanted to be a part of that.”
As the season progressed and Notre Dame continued to win, Hammock couldn’t help but be aware of the streak. The Irish won their final 10 regular season games by an average of more than 30 points per game, but the loss to NIU lingered to some who questioned if Notre Dame was really among the nation’s best or benefited from a weak schedule. During the CFP, the No. 7 seed Irish have responded with consecutive victories over No. 10 seed Indiana, No. 2 seed Georgia and No. 6 seed Penn State.
“I really can say it’s a blessing that we lost to (NIU),” Notre Dame cornerback Christian Gray told ESPN’s Molly McGrath after Thursday’s game. “It got us humbled and everything. But you see we’re up here right now because of that L.”
Said Hammock: “Normally, you are objective. But in this particular case, I certainly want to see Notre Dame have as much success as they want…They’ve gotten better as the season has went along. I think that speaks volumes to coach (Marcus) Freeman and to the leadership and to the players in that program of how they’ve been able to block out the noise, limit the distractions and play their best football each and every single week.”
On Jan. 20, Notre Dame plays one more game, facing No. 8 seed Ohio State (13-2) for the CFP championship in Atlanta. Hammond plans on remaining in Illinois instead of traveling for the game because he wants to be at NIU to help the high school players and transfers who joined the Huskies this semester. Still, he’ll be watching on television with keen interest.
“I’m certainly rooting for Notre Dame,” Hammock said. “I’m a Marcus Freeman fan. I love his humility, his leadership, everything that he’s done since I met him during that game. I wish him nothing but the best.”
CHICAGO (WLS) — Illinois’ former top doctor has been fined by the state ethics commission.
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Dr. Ngozi Ezike lead the Illinois Department of Public Health during the COVID-19 pandemic. She later became president and CEO of Sinai Chicago, which has contracts with the department.
Since she took on the new role within a year of leaving IDPH, there was an ethics violation, according to the state ethic commission.
Dr. Ezike has agreed to pay a $150,000 dollar fine.
Dr. Ezike released the following statement Friday evening:
“As a public servant and physician, I have always been guided by integrity, ethics and justice, and I have dedicated my career to advancing health equity, particularly in underserved communities. I proudly accepted a position as President of Sinai Chicago, which shares my personal mission to improve public health outcomes of those most in need. I look forward to continuing our important work with my fellow caregivers, as well as partners in the communities and beyond, to help the people we serve live better, healthier lives.”
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