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River Forest to host annual pro-homosexual walk, for grammar school students

By LGIS News Service | May 30, 2025

River Forest children, ages 6-14, will soon march through village streets in support of homosexuality. The march is on Monday, June 2 at 6:00 p.m.

Susan Buchanan, who once told Oak Park mayor 'your skin is light enough,' has resigned from Oak Park Village Board

By LGIS News Service | May 18, 2025

Susan Buchanan, the Oak Park Trustee who once berated her colleagues for offering their opinions on a proposed village "diversity statement," has resigned her position after six years on the board.

You know about OPRF’s race-based grading experiments. Their results? Not so much.

By LGIS News Service | May 15, 2025

For the better part of the past decade, Oak Park and River Forest High School has served as both high school and, often politically-acclaimed, “critical race theory” science lab.

"Detracking" at OPRF is a federally-funded experiment on students: U.S. Department of Education Documents

By LGIS News Service | Mar 13, 2025

Since 2022, Oak Park and River Forest High School students have served as human research test subjects in a multi-million dollar federally-funded experiment, studying whether eliminating honor classes improves learning for black and Hispanic students.

Western Springs schools superintendent: We won’t cooperate with federal agents enforcing immigration law

By LGIS News Service | Jan 28, 2025

The superintendent of Western Springs School District 101 says she won't cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents she fears could soon come to the district's three elementary schools and one junior high.

Oak Park trustee hopeful Jacobson will prioritize counseling for villagers traumatized by Trump

By LGIS News Service | Dec 24, 2024

Jenna Leving Jacobson, a college Spanish teacher and anti-Second Amendment activist, is running for Oak Park trustee on a platform of providing more mental health counseling to village residents struggling with Donald J. Trump's election as President of the United States.

West Cook State House candidate, Suzanne Akhras Sahloul, is board member of pro-Hamas group

By LGIS News Service | Sep 24, 2024

Democrat Illinois State House candidate Suzanne Akhras Sahloul is an active board member for the Chicago branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization whose leader said he was "happy" that Hamas attacked Israel last October 7.

Casing the community swimming pool: Venezuelan illegal aliens caught stealing bikes on Sunday afternoon in Western Springs

By LGIS News Service | Jun 11, 2024

Western Springs police caught a group of "at least 12" Venezuelan illegal aliens casing village streets on Sunday, stealing bicycles, sources tell West Cook News.

"To normal people that’s not just weird, that’s a form of sexual abuse;" American Principles Project president Schilling slams River Forest "gay walk"

By LGIS News Service | Jun 7, 2024

The president of a leading national pro-family organization says River Forest schools' active promotion of homosexuality to elementary and middle school students is a "form of sexual abuse."

River Forest grammar schools host pro-homosexual "walk"

By LGIS News Service | Jun 5, 2024

River Forest District 90 hosted its third consecutive pro-homosexualty walk on Monday June 3. The event included students ages 6-14, in grades kindergarten through eight, who marched to River Forest Village Hall to raise the "Progress Pride Flag," which is now honored alongside the American Flag.

“Priority 1: Racial Equity;" In 2028 plan, Oak Park and River Forest H.S. promises to prioritize black, hispanic students over white ones

By LGIS News Service | Apr 10, 2024

Oak Park and River Forest High School (OPRF) leaders are promising to re-direct current school spending away from programs with predominantly white students, to replace white and Asian teachers with black and Hispanic ones, and to start sending school communications in Spanish.

Analysis: After first term, Foxx support plummeted among West Cook Democrats

By LGIS News Service | Mar 15, 2024

More than 14,000 West Cook County suburban Democrats who voted for Kim Foxx in 2016 voted against her in 2020. That's according to an analysis of election return data from 36 West Cook suburbs by West Cook News.

Analysis: West Cook townships rejected Foxx re-election in 2020

By LGIS News Service | Mar 13, 2024

In Cook County's nine west suburban townships, State's Attorney Kim Foxx received 42,511 fewer votes in the 2020 Democrat primary, when compared to 2016.

Western Springs Village President: Illegals are welcome.... so long as they get on the train and leave

By LGIS News Service | Jan 6, 2024

Western Springs Village President Heidi Rudolph announced Friday that illegal aliens are welcome to come to the town-- provided they are just passing through, boarding trains to the City of Chicago.

Five years after promise to "welcome" them to town, illegal aliens waiting for River Forest to make good

By LGIS News Service | Oct 3, 2023

River Forest village leaders were emphatic in 2017. If illegal aliens ever came to their town, they would roll out the red carpet for them.

“Remove the word ‘productive';” Read the Village of River Forest’s $50,000 report on how to hire fewer white, heterosexual men

By LGIS News Service | Sep 2, 2023

Female and black new hires by the Village of River Forest might be demoralized by the suggestion they be “productive,” so the word should be removed from an employee onboarding packet.

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“Admitted concealing student performance data;” Letter describes Winnetka test scores scandal under now River Forest curriculum chief Hawley

By LGIS News Service | Jun 7, 2023

The woman choosing River Forest School District 90’s curriculum, Allison Hawley, was forced to resign from her previous job in Winnetka, after her boss revealed she “concealed student performance data” from that community.

Emails: River Forest D90 curriculum chief hired consultant to help tell parents about declining test scores

By LGIS News Service | Jun 1, 2023

River Forest District 90's curriculum chief hired an $85 per hour consultant to help her inform school parents that their children's state standardized math and English test scores continue to decline.

Memorial Gay Parade? "Trans" activists take center stage at River Forest's annual event to honor war dead

By LGIS News Service | May 29, 2023

According to a report in the Oak Park Oak Leaves, the 1968 River Forest Memorial Day Parade featured baton twirlers, "an array of antique automobiles" and a "Stars and Stripes Stroll," in which marchers handed out American flags to children watching from the curbs.

“The social-emotional focus is really important;" Consultants help River Forest District 90 plans kindergarten revamp

By LGIS News Service | May 22, 2023

River Forest District 90 has engaged "early learning" consultants to help staff figure how how to teach "full day" kindergarten to five and six year old children next year.

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