All Week Long
Originally published on abc7chicago.com 04/07/2024
Tributes have been pouring in to remember the legacy Karen Yarbrough left on Cook County and Illinois.
Yarbrough's family is keeping her cause of death private, but ABC7 is told she had been sick for some time.
Her colleagues say this is a loss for the entire political world. People are trying to find the words to honor Yarbrough, the first Black person ever elected to the office of Cook County clerk.
Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle called her "a trailblazer and a friend who always advocated for what she believed was right."
Originally published on chicago.suntimes.com 04/08/2024 | Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci
President Joe Biden came to Chicago on Monday to ramp up fundraising for his re-election campaign after touting a new student loan relief plan that he said would be "life-changing" for more than 30 million borrowers.
Biden detailed the plan during a trip to Wisconsin, one of a handful of battleground states that could play a pivotal role in Biden's likely November rematch with Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.
Biden said he wanted to “give everybody a fair shot” and the “freedom to chase their dreams” as he lamented the rising cost of higher education.
“Even when they work hard and pay their student loans, their debt increases and not diminishes," he said. "Too many people feel the strain and stress, wondering if they can get married, have their first child, start a family, because even if they get by, they still have this crushing, crushing debt.”
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