Shouts of "traitors!" and murmurs from the Manteno community echoed through the room after the Manteno Planning Commission voted unanimously Nov. 27 to change the zoning for the proposed Gotion lithium ion car battery plant facility site from light industrial to heavy industrial.
Black students, constituting 24.5% or 70 of Steuben Elementary School's total student population of 286, accounted for three out of the four total suspensions (75%) in the 2021-22 school year, averaging roughly one suspension per 23 students, according to the latest student discipline report by the Illinois State Board of Education.