Bears QB Caleb Williams made an appearance at Simeon Career Academy and spoke to the students there about staying focused and setting goals.
18 is always looking to participate with the community. Love it. 🐻⬇️
📸; @ChiPubSchools
In other election news.... former self-declared "supermayor" Tiffany Henyard is losing big in her *republican* bid for a seat on the Fulton County, Georgia board of commissioners. #WGNelection
Today I met the one and only Mr. T—and instantly turned back into a 13-year-old A-Team fan! 🥹🔥📺
The whole thing was mind-blowing. I was driving by Dawson Technical, saw the mural on the wall, and thought, “That’s so dope!” 🎨🙌🏾 I stopped to take a picture, walked inside—and there was Mr. T, walking right toward me! 😲���Divine timing! ✨
What an honor to meet this brother and see his passion for our people and our community. ❤️✊🏾 We should celebrate our heroes while they’re here. I feel incredibly fortunate our paths crossed today while he was out doing his civic duty and voting. 🗳️🇺🇸
That’s DOPE! 💥 Stay focused, positive, and productive. ✨💪🏾 Peace! ☮️✌🏾
@Precise_Chi
She was the first Black woman in the world to win an Olympic gold medal.
At her homecoming celebration in her own Georgia hometown, the mayor refused to shake her hand, and she was made to leave by a side door.
Alice Coachman. 1948.
She grew up in Albany, Georgia, running barefoot on dirt roads because the town's athletic facilities were for white children. She trained by jumping over string tied between two sticks.
She was so far ahead of the American field that she won the national high jump championship ten years in a row — and the Olympics were cancelled twice, in 1940 and 1944, taking her best years away.
She finally got to London in 1948 at twenty-four, jumping on an injured back, and won.
King George VI handed her the medal.
She came home to a celebration in Albany where the audience was segregated — Black residents on one side, white on the other. The mayor sat on the stage with her and would not shake her hand.
She was not permitted to speak. Then she left through a side entrance.
She was the first Black woman on earth to do what she had just done, and her own town's mayor could not manage a handshake.
She later set up a foundation for young athletes and for retired Olympians who had been forgotten. She knew exactly what that felt like.
19 pieces of legislation and counting.
87 Town Halls held.
$1.7 BILLION reinvested in Northern Illinois.
You sent me to Congress because you wanted a fighter. As your Representative, I promise to keep fighting for the families who trusted me to serve them.
Chicago legend, DJ Sam Chatman, known as the Godfather of Steppin', has died. He is also the father of ABC7's Samantha Chatman. https://t.co/4VMRiF7gNh