Freeport

It’s summer vacation -- but we’re still in session here on Teachers' Lounge! We put on our backpack to head to social justice summer camp & talked with a special education teacher about his journey from teaching in the Philippines to Illinois.

On a new Teachers’ Lounge, Eugene’s journey to become a teacher was not an easy one. Hear a special education teacher’s story from growing up in poverty in the Philippines to advocating for his students in Illinois.

Last week, police in 19 Illinois counties received false school shooting threats, known as swatting, on the same day.

The two actors developed an emotional connection to the story.

It looks like a civic arts plaza proposed for downtown Freeport will happen, and officials from the city and the Freeport Art Museum have high hopes for…

Fourteen people, including Reverend Jesse Jackson, were arrested Wednesday afternoon after marching onto the grounds of the Sensata Technologies factory…