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The Illinois Department of Public Health said Tuesday that six residents of Champaign-Urbana have been diagnosed in recent weeks with Legionnaire’s disease, a form of pneumonia caused by a bacteria carried in water mist.
This month marks a year since the Me Too movement went viral as a hashtag on social media (after having first been started in 2006 by Tarana Burke.) This week, we hear from several women in Illinois whose work in government has been affected. Today we hear from State Rep. Sara Wojcicki Jimenez of Springfield who is the Republican spokesperson for the House Sexual Discrimination and Harassment Task Force.
Democrat Dustin Heuerman is running for Champaign County Sheriff. Heuerman is currently the program coordinator and academic advisor of criminal justice at Lake Land College in Mattoon.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, more victims are coming forward to report sexual harassment and assault. But when the victim is a student and the abuser is a professor, the power differential can be a barrier to students speaking out, according to the organizers of an upcoming “#MeToo and Academia” panel discussion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
What test should school teachers have to pass to earn a license in Illinois? The Illinois State Board of Education takes up that question at their meeting Wednesday.
