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Chicago shooting victim Hadiya Pendleton's mother will be Congressman Brad Schneider's guest at Tuesday's State of the Union Address, according to his office.
Hadiya, 15, an honors student at King College Prep in Chicago, was gunned down in a park last month about a mile from President Obama's Kenwood home. She had recently returned from his inauguration, where she had performed with her school band.
The mother of a slain Chicago teen who has quickly become the face of gun violence will be a suburban congressman's guest to the State of the Union address Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
Deerfield Democratic Rep. Brad Schneider reached out to Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, the mother of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, the King College Prep honors student and majorette who was shot to death in a Chicago park Jan. 29.
Seventeen House Democrats have committed to bringing people affected by gun violence as guests to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union next week.
The nascent effort began in January with a letter from five House Democrats, urging their colleagues to invite people whose lives had been influenced by gun violence to the Feb. 12 speech.
Today, U.S. Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10) and U.S. Congressman Lou Barletta (PA-11) introduced the bipartisan American Manufacturing Efficiency and Retraining Investment Collaboration Achievement (AMERICA) Works Act to help build a skilled American workforce.
Deerfield Bannockburn Firefight Mike Patten and Fireman Frank Nardonarino from Highland Park both know how to prepare tasty chili according to the people sampling it at Whole Foods first annual Chili Cook Off Saturday in Deerfield.
“They’re very delicious,” Lise Dominique of Highland Park said after tasting the two recipes. “I don’t know yet,” she added when asked which one would get her vote.
When you catch the political bug in third grade and start attending national leadership conferences in sixth, it should not be a surprise when both sides in one of the of the country’s hottest Congressional campaigns are bidding for your services as a high school freshman.
That is what happened to Deerfield High Schoolsophomore Lily Zacharias.
Local members of Congress spread out through Washington Saturday taking books to a children’s hospital and sprucing up a children’s shelter as part of the National Day of Service honoring the memory of the late Dr. Martin Luther King.
As teenagers, a group of Illinois high schoolers logged hundreds of hours of volunteering in last year's election.
This weekend, 14 of them were rewarded with an all-expenses paid trip to the U.S. Capitol where they will watch President Obama's ceremonial swearing in.
They are part of Mikva Challenge, a not for profit group that aims to get kids involved in civics.
The Sun-Times reached out to numerous congressional lawmakers after President Obama's far-reaching proposal to overhaul gun laws. Here's what some of them had to say and how the NRA has rated them.
The NRA is one of the most powerful lobbies in the nation, pouring some $68 million in contributions and lobbying efforts onto Congress since 1990.
Here's what some Illinois congresspeople had to say:
From the time Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Deerfield) started running for the House of Representatives in May, 2011, he touted his background as a management consultant as a reason he would be an effective member of Congress.