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News and events from the Chicago metropolitan area and the North Shore.
SCHAUMBURG — The Elkhart-based Kenneth Young Center opened an LGBTQ youth center in Schaumburg this week.
The Daily Herald of Arlington Heights reported that the LGBTQ+ Youth and Young Adult Center opened its new Schaumburg office, 650 E. Algonquin Road Suite 104.
The center is the newest of the centers opened or announced this year. Clock Inc. opened in the Quad Cities earlier this year and a new LGBTQ center is planned for the Chicago South Side.
CHICAGO — An apartment in Rogers Park, a neighborhood on Chicago’s far north side, has been hit with homophobic graffiti for a second time.
PALATINE — The Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board will be considering removing the policy that forced transgender students to use privacy stalls in school locker rooms tonight.
MOKENA — Justin Bakker, a former firefighter and paramedic with the Mokena Fire District, has filed a lawsuit against the district alleging sex discrimination and sex harassment.
CHICAGO — The Chicago Sun-Times reported that transgender woman was raped at a CTA Pink Line station in Lawndale on Monday.
CHICAGO — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has endorsed Marie Newman against incumbent Dan Lipinski in the Illinois 3rd Congressional district.
CHICAGO — A man is charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of a transgender woman and the death of her brother last month.
CHICAGO — People and organizations reacted Friday to news of Michael Bauer passing.
CHICAGO — A new LGBTQ center will be coming to the south side of Chicago, the local state representative said at an event last Saturday.
LEMONT — Lemont, in the southwest suburbs, has become the latest Illinois community to see racist flyers pop up. It’s also at least the third community in the 3rd Congressional district to be hit. The Chicago neighborhoods of Beverly and Mt. Greenwood have also seen the flyers appear. It’s also the same district where self-proclaimed neo-Nazi Arthur Jones ran as a Republican in the 2018 election.
