CPS Chief Education Officer Jean-Claude Brizard announced the award this morning at Jahn Elementary School on the North Side. Brizard was accompanied by the congressman representing the school's neighborhood, Mike Quigley (D-5), who worked to secure the funds for CPS.
Sen. Mark Kirk and Rep. Mike Quigley are calling for a criminal probe into a Homeland Security Inspector General’s investigation that Cook County misspent $45 million in federal funds. The money was part of Project Shield, which was intended to provide 128 municipalities with two vehicles capable of mobile data transmission, a WiFi hotspot and a tower camera.
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley joined Mayor Rahm Emanuel and several Chicago Blackhawks for a youth hockey clinic at Lakeview's Center on Halsted.
The Blackhawks Stanley Cup win is now memorialized in the minutes of the U.S. House of Representatives, thanks to Chicago Congressman Mike Quigley.
H. Res 1439 congratulates the Hawks on their "amazing offense, superb defense, and unmatched depth," and notes that the cup has now returned "to where it belongs, sweet home Chicago."
A couple of other congressmen voted against the resolution, and we can only hope Quigley will be dropping the gloves to take care of them. Read more...
...at the proposed dinner featuring Rep. Mike Quigley, former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and the Hearty Boys -- the gay Chicago couple that hosted a Food Network show.
Quigley and the Hearty Boys are hosting a "Families Valued" dinner Monday, and they've invited the flagrantly anti-gay Huckabee.
Should be super awkward. Unless, of course, Huckabee brings along a freshly killed duck, and the Hearty Boys win him over with a fantastic duck sausage and white bean cassoulet recipe. Bon apetit, lads!
