Petition Aims To Ban Illinois Pols From Pride Parade After Gay Marriage Fail

June 4, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Petition Aims To Ban Illinois Pols From Pride Parade After Gay Marriage Fail A Chicago man's online petition calling on organizers of the city's Gay Pride Parade to ban all Illinois politicians from participating in the festivities due to the failure to pass the state's gay marriage bill has garnered over 1,000 signatures. Continue reading... Students From Violence-Plagued High School To Meet With FLOTUS Roger Ebert's Famous 'Kindness' Quote Inspires Touching Comic Chicago Blues Musician Dies At 79 PHOTOS: Billionaire Donor's Massive Mansion Hits Market PHOTO: Patrick Stewart Learns The Mysteries Of Chicago Pizza Gay Marriage Bill Sponsors On Illinois Failure: We're Sorry PHOTOS: Sharon Van Etten Charms At Millennium Park GOP To Recruit New Chicago Candidates 'American Idol' Style Petition Aims To Ban Illinois Pols From Pride Parade After Gay Marriage Fail WATCH: Teacher's Epic Resignation Video The Awesome Thing One Chicago Principal Did To Reward Students' Reading TOM ANGELL ACLU Report: Racist Marijuana Laws Target Blacks While marijuana use rates between blacks and whites are comparable, blacks are nearly four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession. Continue reading... CRAIG KANALLEY This Is an Actual Walgreens Store in Chicago (PHOTOS) Meet... a Walgreens in Chicago. It's located at the old Noel State Bank building, as explained here, a 1919 construction that is also a registered Chicago Landmark. That's at 1601 North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. Continue reading... GEOFFREY R. STONE Same-Sex Marriage in Illinois: The Role of the Black Church The usual liberalism of the Black Caucus in Illinois apparently does not extend to protecting the equality rights of gays and lesbians. The explanation for this apparent puzzle seems to rest less in the views of the legislators than in the politics of religion in the African-American community. Continue reading... ANDREW BROY A New Era of Possibility for Chicago Students No one supports charter expansion merely for the sake of charter expansion. Charter schools are successful only if they prepare students academically and provide students with the skills to compete in a rapidly changing economy. Continue reading... WAYMON HUDSON Marriage Equality Stalls in Illinois: An In-Depth Look It seems the long road to full equality in "The Prairie State" will continue to wind on, at least for now, as marriage equality supporters look ahead to both the veto session in the house and the current marriage lawsuit making its way through the Illinois court system brought by Lambda Legal and the ACLU. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003