A video documentary created by local students and inspired by immigrants’ oft-perilous journey into the United States has been awarded honorable mention recognition in C-SPAN’s national StudentCam competition.
Category: Charity
Rapper gives $1 million to Chicago schools, blasts governor
Chance the Rapper’s unusual intervention into Chicago Public Schools’ funding crisis took an even more curious turn Monday when the Grammy-winner presented a $1 million check to city schools and urged Gov. Bruce Rauner to use his executive powers to help the nation’s third-largest district. The Republican governor, a former venture capitalist, responded by noting his own philanthropy and floating Chicago school funding ideas that would face tough odds in the Democratic-controlled Legislature.