James Innell Packer was born in Twyning, Gloucestershire, England, July 22, 1926. Due to a serious injury when he was 7 years old, Packer’s youth focused on reading, writing and music rather than sports or other activities. He hoped for a bicycle for his 11th birthday but was given a typewriter instead. Though initially disappointing […]
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Schools challenge Illinois mask requirement
Channahon | Two private academies in northern Illinois and a school district in the southeastern part of the state are at the center of a growing debate over masks in Illinois schools. In a letter sent on behalf of Families of Faith Christian Academy in Channahon, attorney Tom Devore informed the state’s Board of Education […]
Pastor urges prayer walks after deadly holiday gun violence rocks Chicago neighborhoods
Chicago church planter Edgar Rodriguez, Jr., is organizing Christians to march and prayer walk in the city’s neighborhoods starting July 13, after gun violence over the holiday weekend injured 87 and killed 17. Rodriguez, pastor of New City Fellowship, will start in his backyard in Humboldt Park. After that he plans to move on to […]
High Court strikes down law that could have impacted Roe v. Wade
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote once again in a 5-4 decision that struck down a Louisiana law requiring doctors and others who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within a 30-mile radius. The majority of the Court found the law to be unconstitutional by placing an undue […]
First Person: We must not be silent on racism
These recent days in American life have truly been difficult. We have witnessed with our own eyes, in the streets of one of our major cities, a black man being murdered slowly and cruelly. Over the course of a long eight minutes, George Floyd cried out for help and mercy while a white police officer […]
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