Newbery-winning author visits Champaign school for Asian American Heritage Month
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Newbery-winning author visits Champaign school for Asian American Heritage Month

ByEmily Hays

CHAMPAIGN – Students at Kenwood Elementary had a special visitor on Tuesday.  Newbery-winning author Erin Entrada Kelly — a Filipina-American children’s book author — conducted a brainstorming session via Zoom with the students. She then spun a story out of the class’ brainstorm. Trevor Nadrozny is the principal at Kenwood Elementary School in Champaign. He…

217 Today: Former Central Illinois U.S. Representative Tim Johnson dies at age 75

217 Today: Former Central Illinois U.S. Representative Tim Johnson dies at age 75

ByFarrah Anderson

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Today’s headlines: Work continues unwinding some Illinois pension funds from Russian assets.  Behavioral health co-responders will work with law enforcement in four Illinois cities as part of a slate of public safety bills Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law Tuesday. Asian-American authors are visiting Champaign-Urbana schools all month for Asian American…