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  2. History of slavery in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The Code Noir, an earlier version of the later Illinois Black codes regulated behavior and treatment of slaves and of free people of color in the French colonial empire, including the Illinois Country of New France from 1685 to 1763 Indian slave of the Fox tribe either in the Illinois Country or the Nipissing tribe in upper French Colonial Canada, circa 1732 The second Governor of Illinois ...

  3. Pickering v. Board of Education - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Const. amend. Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 U.S. 563 (1968), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that in the absence of proof of the teacher knowingly or recklessly making false statements the teacher had a right to speak on issues of public importance without being dismissed from their position. [1]

  4. Comer Children's Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Hospitals in Illinois. The University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital (UC CCH) formerly University of Chicago Children's Hospital is a nationally ranked, freestanding, 172-bed, pediatric acute care children's hospital adjacent to University of Chicago Medical Center. [1] It is affiliated with the University of Chicago Pritzker School of ...

  5. LaSalle County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    LaSalle County, Illinois, is one of the few counties in the United States to border as many as nine counties. Illinois has two such counties, with Pike County being the other. Many of the residents of LaSalle County live in cities and towns along the Illinois River. It is the main population core, with some exceptions, including Streator to the ...

  6. Free speech fights - Wikipedia

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    Free speech fights. Free speech fights are struggles over free speech, and especially those struggles which involved the Industrial Workers of the World and their attempts to gain awareness for labor issues by organizing workers and urging them to use their collective voice. During the World War I period in the United States, the IWW members ...

  7. 1952 Democratic National Convention - Wikipedia

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    The 1952 Democratic National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois from July 21 to July 26, 1952, which was the same arena the Republicans had gathered in a few weeks earlier for their national convention from July 7 to July 11, 1952.

  8. Freedom of expression in India - Wikipedia

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    2. Putting restrictions on the freedom of speech and expression was a British practice. Members who supported the restrictions argued that Restrictions were fine as the government was no longer a colonial one. The right to free speech was not absolute anywhere in the world. The law, order and security of the state could not be compromised.

  9. Disability Pride Month - Wikipedia

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    History United States. On March 12, 1990, over 1,000 people marched from the White House to the U.S. Capitol to demand that Congress pass the Americans with Disabilities Act. . Upon arrival, about 60 activists, including eight-year-old Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, physically demonstrated the inaccessibility of public spaces by getting out of their wheelchairs or setting aside their mobility aids ...