Pillar Sheldrick Holmes: Grail Café “You know how infuriating it was to have an issue as large as this pandemic and have no one see you? You feel invisible.”
Pillar Laura Schillmoeller “I just don’t want to pay for these public schools anymore because I feel like they have completely let everybody down. I’m done.”
Pillar Jerry R. McDonald “People are voting with their feet, leaving Illinois every day and high property taxes are a big part of it.”
Pillar Karena Cozad “First of all, they shouldn’t tell you it’s mandatory. It’s misleading if you’re a non-union member.”
Pillar Majdi Razick “Adding Illinois to the Nurse Licensure Compact could really help alleviate the heavy burden placed on nurses.”
Pillar Madalyn Mauro “I couldn’t transfer my license, so I had to get a new license just to get a job back in Iowa, which cost hundreds of dollars.”
Pillar Megan Zentner “If you try to go outside of your district here in the state of Illinois, you will pay tens of thousands of dollars per school year per student.”
Pillar Sarah Sachen “This is the first time in the history of teachers’ strikes that parents across the city are uniting to speak against the union. There were ‘return to school’ rallies in both the Englewood neighborhood, and on the North Side.”
Pillar Al Molina “E-learning does not work for everybody, and one size does not fit all. My children are not doing well in school.”
