The Kingfisher’s new costume was revealed Thursday, one month after students voted in favor of a referendum to adopt an ...

A bill aiming to end the usage of mascots depicting Indigenous people and people with disabilities in K-12 public schools ...

House Bill 1237, which was passed by the Illinois House, bans schools from using Native American names, mascots, or logos, ...

Illinois K-12 schools may soon be required to pick new mascots to replace those that reference Native American names and ...

The Democrat-led Illinois House has advanced legislation placing a statewide ban on Native American imagery and mascots by ...

Freeburg Community High School’s mascot, the “Midgets,” is considered a slur used against people with dwarfism. The school’s ...

The Illinois House of Representatives passed House Bill 1237, which prohibits K-12 schools from using a Native American name, ...

We’ve been doing this right for a long time, let us continue that opportunity,” one metro-east superintendent said.

The Illinois House has approved a bill that would ban portrayals of Native Americans in school logos, names and mascots, and ...

The bill, if signed into law, currently would affect just one high school in St. Clair County. Freeburg Community High School ...

Maurice West, D-Rockford, has tried to pass the Native mascot ban. When West tried in 2020, members of the Native American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois asked him to push for teaching Native ...