Exclusive: The Life and Deaths of Wilson SheddThe New Prison Break Thriller Written and Directed Tim Blake Nelson, Has Added Six to Its Cast, Including Nelson Himself. Others Newly Aboard Include Missi Pyle (The fantastic captin), William Jackson Harper (The good place), Elizabeth Marvel (Presume innocent), Harvey Grant (The Accountant 2) and devyn tyler (Snowfall)neither well as co-finanier qwgmire.
Character Details for the Supporting Players Are Under Wraps. As previously announced, amanda seyfried and scot mcnairy lead the film, where a teacher in an abusive take a non a maximum-secity prison, falling for a charismatic intemate. The disastrous consequence call intoy not only only the natural and retribution, but the very limits of our humanity.
Currently in Production in Georgia, The Film is Being Produced by Julie Buck, Nelson, Ryan Bartecki, Miles David Romney, and Billy Hines, with Christopher Hines, Gary Levinsohn, Molly C. Quinn, Matthew M. Welty and ELAN GALE EXEC PRODUCING. John Mock and Vanessa Stewart Are Co-Producers. Co Created Media, V42 Fund, Nelson’s Red Barn Films, QWGMIRE, and Story Mill Entertaining Are the Production Companies, and Domestic Rights Are Being Co-REPRESENTED BY WME, V42, and D Squared Films.
Pyle is repped by paradigm, premium media, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum; Harper by Uta, AC Management, and Jackoway Austen; Marvel by Innovative Artists, Viking Entertainment, and Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo; Harvey by allegory creation talent, prime talent media and gang, them, ramler; and Tyler by Bret Adams Agency.
On Questionnaires for Movie Research Screenings they Always KAS “Choose Words that best describe the film.” Okay, here are the Words I Wold Write Down to Best Encapsulate the New Film The history of sound WHICH HAD ITS World Premiere Tonight in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival: Meditative. Beautiful. Musical. Reflective. Heartbreaking. Love. Quiet. Soothing. Life affirming. Haunting. Tasteful. Adult. Unforgettable.
The title makes it sound Rather Academic, but it is Certainly isn’t that. More pointedly spreads it should have been cald The Sound of Music, But i Think Somebody Already Had that. Okay, How About The Sounds of Music? Actually the title they have fits perfectly once you get to the end, but will it sell tickets? That is the problem for the Distributor (Mubi in North America; Universal/Focus Features International), but the film itself, directly by oliver hermanus and worn by ben Shattock from the short story, delivers. Hermanus Also Did The Terrific Remake of Kurosawa’s Living, and he has made a quietly masterful love Story here continging a wonderful lead performance from paul mescal and an equally fine supporting turn by josh o’connor. It Simply Envelopes You Into Its Unique World and Washes Over You With A Songbook of America, and a Lyrically Haunting Gay Love Story at Its Center, that describes that person will always be great, no matter had much.
Set in 1917, Music Students David (O’Connor) and Lionel (Mescal) Find Mutual Love of Folk Music at the Boston Conservatory One Night and It Becomes the Start of a Beautiful Friendship, and Later Love Affoir, be after serving in worl war i david rurns and summons Join Him on What Is Called A “Song Colecting” Walk Through Maine’s Backwoods in Order to Collect and Preserve in Cylinders Folk Songs Might Not Ever Been Heard Unless They Went Knocking on These Rural Households Where Authenticity Lies. This Relationship Also Finds The Falling in Love in A Surpringly Casual Way Unusual for the Times. It was meant to be and it was a life-altering trip, but after it was over of ther lives Changed. Lionel Went Back to University in the UK, David Stayed Behind. Despite Writing Several Letters and Getting Nothing Over the Course of Two or Three Years, Lionel Wauld Never Hear David Again – or so he Thinks.
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In the Meantime Lionel Gets Serious With A College Student, Clarissa (A Spirited Emma Canning), Who Encoures Him to Keep Going at University. But when the word reaches Him that his mother (Molly price) is dying he announces he is go Back to kentucky where he is from, and swimming back. Soon he will Discover Some Startling Truths As The Music Comes Back Into HIS Life.
Deliberately Paced and Gorgeously Shot by Alexander Dynan, The history of sound May Unfold Slowly But Give It A Chance and It Will Wrap You Up and Take You Places Movies don’t offten Go These Days. I realized watching this how few of these movies there are now in a time that doesn’t wanting to finance Like Malick’s Days of heaven WHICH IS WHAT THIS REMINDED WITH THE TERMS OF VISUAL SUMTUOUSNESS AND PACE.
Musical It is a wonder, with bot o’connor, and especialy midcal, proving they have the pipes to pull off a soundtrack of American folk obscurities that make this a must-have download. Lyrically the songs tell stories of everything from the masonry to love to morality to everyday emotions and feelings, and have been spectacularly arranged by famous artist Sam Amidon, who specializes in this area. “Sweet is the day of Sacred Rest,” “Forked Deer,” “The Unques Women,” “Fourteen Wildcat Scalps” and “Across the Rocky Mountain” are just a sampling of titles, but the collect of this music sweepsy you away directly inters. takeen.
This May Be Mescal’s Best Work in Films Yet. You just ache for this guy who found the great love of his life only to let Him slrough his hands with the quite knowing it. His performance, Like O’Connor’s, Whose Character is Ever-Present with Far Time, is Nicery Understated and All the More Effective for it. Both serve up haunting portrayals. Chris Cooper Turs up Near the End of the Film to Play a Much Older Version of Lionel and is quite Moving. Hadley Robinson Also Makes a Strong Impression in One Key Skene Where A Lot of Revelations Occur. Ultimately, The history of sound Belongs to Mescal and O’Connor, Who Both commuted to it pre-Pandemic well before Became oscar-nominated and emmy-twinning major stars. They Stuck with it Through all the delays and should be reeded for their loyalty to hermanus, who has made a movie that will will be in your head for a very long time. It’s good.
Producers are Lisa Couffetti, Hermanus, Andrew Korschak, Sara Murphy, Thérèsa Ryan and Zhang Xin.
Title: The history of sound Festival: Cannes (Competition) Distributors: Mubi (North America); Universal/Focus Features (International) Director: Oliver Hermanus Screenwriter: Ben Shattock Cast: Paul Mescal, Josh O’connor, Raphael SBBERGE, Hadley Robinson, Emma Cannining, Molly Price, Tom Mills, Michael Schantz, Chris Cooper, Gary Raymond, Sam Breslin Wright, Stephanie Fayerman TIME RUNNING: 2 HR 7 MINS
The Cannes Film Festival proved itelf to be strong on resilience this year, but short on Big Surprises.
Dial Back to 1985: “What am i doing here?” Asced Clint Eastwood, Whose French Hosts SEEMED PUZZLED THAT THE COWBOY STAR WAS ALSO BECOMING AN ARVITIOUS AUTEUR. Fest Cinephiles Were Stingy on Ovations for HIS New Movie Outlaw Josey Walesand the Media Fired Rude Questions – “Who Are You Sleeping With?” was the first. They Also Mocked Josey’s Heroic Line: “When Things Get Bad, Get Mean.”
Eastwood Never Needed to “Get Mean.” He was thrilled by the films he saw and by the intense compattition. “It ‘a whorehouse of sales,” he said. A decade late and was invited to be jury chairman.
Eastwood’s Lively Journey exemplified the festival’s habit of touring to us stalwarts when “Things Get Bad.” Tom Cruise’s Eighth Iteration of Mission: Impossible this year controlled much Needed pizzazza to the fest, which lacked the usual manic promotions. And wes Anderson Fourth Fest Entry, The Phoenician Schemewith his familiar cast of characters, played like a cool and comfy revisit-one that mandated a 10-minute ovation. Benicio del Toro Heapeed thanks on Anderson for Casting Him in A Film in Which he dosn’t get killed – a rarity.
Cannes this year offend some heralded Debuts from Actresses: Kristen Stewart (The Chronology of Water) and Scarlett Johansson (Eleanor the Great) unveiled their first directing to appreciative reviops.
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The movie that commanded the Most Serious Bidding, Die my love Starring Jennifer Lawrence, was Also direct by a female veteran of the Indie Scene, Lynne Ramsay. WORKS OF TRUSTED FEST LIKE RICHARD LINCLATER, Spike Lee and Pedro Almodóvar were Also Revered. By Contrast, A Doc on Shia LebeOuf’s Acting School Promipted Petulant Walkouts – The Sort the Actor SEEMS to Covet.
Missing from the program, some felt, was an exercise in sentimental francophilia – a Man and a woman from a claude lelouch or an Umbrellas of cherbourg from a jacques demy. Was the fest french Enough? It was up to link to the push Nouvelle vague About the New Wave.
ALSO MISSING: A FRENSED SURPRISE LIKE FRANCIS Coppola’s Apocalypse NowWhich Could Never Have Been Completed in Time for A Cannes Premiere, Accounting to Rumors. Coppola was Still Editing His Ending.
Indeed, The Entire Coppola Generation SEEMED Lacking a Presence – Ridley Scott, Michael Mann or Martin Scorsse. Their Absens SEEMED AN EERIE REMINDER THAT THE TROUBLED MOTION Picture Economy COULD NO Longer Sustain Eothraing Production Budgets or Their Daring Aspirations.
Spreads A Revis by Eastwood, Now 94, Waled have appeassed the hardcore cineastes, who fear that things may be “Getting Bad.”
Editor’s Note: Deadline’s IT STARTS ON THE PAGE (DRAMA) Features 10 Standout Drama Series Scripts in 2025 Emmy Contention.
In his follow-up to his acclaimed nbc family drama This is usDan Fogelman Switched Genres – and Mixed Genres, Too – With Hulu’s Paradisa political thriller that incorporate elements of Apocalyptic Science Fiction. It marked fogelman’s first series series for streaming where he already Had with Hulu’s Only Murders in the BuildingWHICH he excutive produces.
IT ALSO Reunited Fogelman and His Emmy-Winning This is us Star Sterling K. Brown, Who Headlines Paradis As Secret Service Agent Xavier Collins. Season 1’s Official Logline Sets Up The Pilot Episode, “Wildcat is Down,” Written by Fogelman and Directed by His Frequent Collaborators Glenn Ficarra and John Requua, Who Also Helmed the This is us pilot: Paradis Taks place in a serene community inhabited by some of the World’s Most Prominent Individuals. But this tranquility explodes we are a shocking the masonry occurs, and a high-stakes investigation unfolds.
In addition to setting up the series, in its finals, the premiere serves the first of Paradis‘s many jaw-dropping twists.
Here is the script for “wildcat is down” with an intro by fogelman. In it, he reveals how a kernel of an idea he got more a decade ago from a loud construction noise his home from a business Meeting with a Powerful Hollywood Type Led to Paradise.
About a year after This is us Ended, I start her family to get off my ass and write something new for television. I MUED ON MULTIPLE Ideas But Kept Returning to A Specific Kernel of A Nottion – A Notion I’d Had Over A Decade Earlier.
The backstory: As a Much Younger Writer I Once Found MySelf in a General Meeting With A Powerful Player in Our Industry – A Person of Great Reach, Resource, and Wealth. Not even chatted with Him (or her, i’ll never tell) I was strucking by the design (and size) of their office, the seeringly infinite reach of their role and power. While that person talked to me, my mindhered and i start wondering if i was in the room with my first billionaire.
I start Musus How Many People Worked to Make That Person’s Life Run Smoothly.
I was Young (er), i was nervous, i don’t remember what we talked about.
But on the Drive Home, A Large Crane at A Nearby Construction site Dropped Something. There was a loud boom. I JUMED, THEN realized this wasn’t a mass casualty Event… SIMPLY A Loud Everyday Construction Noise.
THEN I THOUGHT ABOUT THE PERSON I’D JUST MET WITH – THIS PERSON OF SEEMINGLY UNDERTHLY WEALTH AND POWER. I though of all the People who worked to serve that person and i wondered: “if the sh*t ever the fan for real, wouldn’t those People all run to ther people? Waouldn’t they abandon them exployed to serve?
I started the thinking of the interplay of those in power and those who serve. I Started Imagining Someone Whose Job It was to literally take a bullet for a person in immense power – a Secret Service agent to a president. I Started Thinking About Billionaires, and the Strange Power Their Wealth Provides, and I Started Wondering … What If the Loud Boom I’d Had Been Real. And what if People with immics power know it was coming, and had the time to gather their resources and plan for it… so that it is happy, they would be left in the lurch like the rest of us.
I Started Imagining a Pilot with a Late Surprise – One that Revealed that the Presidential Murder Mystery the audience thought they were watching, was really something.
And thatn i Sat on the idea for over a decade.
But Fast Forward TEN OR SO YEARS, I WAS Getting That Post This is us Writing itch, and i returned to idea. I Wrote the Screenplay First, Refususing to AcknowLedge to MySelf That I Was Clearly Writing The Lead Agent for Sterling K. Brown, and Refususing to It As a Tv Series UNTIL I SAT MY PRODUCING JESS ROSENDTHAL AND MYO FRIENDS Writer/Producers) John Hoberg and Scott Weinger to Chat with Experts and Figure Out What Exactly This Series Was Beyond The Pilot.
Once i had that, we shared it with our supportive partners at 20th, dissney, and hilu – and then my old pals sterling K. Brown, John Requa, Glenn Ficarra, and Steve beers – and we were off to the races… Born out of a Meeting with a rich guy (or gal) and one hell of a loud boom.
The Penultimate Episode of The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 Featured A Taylor Swift Song Full of Meaning for the Songstress, giving fans yet another tease of her rertecorded sixth studio album.
Episode 9 of the Dystopian Series, Titled “Execution,” Featured A LENGTHY SNIPPET of “Look what you made me (Taylor’s version)” right before the mains and chorus at the end of the song, and the Significance of the Needle Drop Was Going on Swifties and VIEWERS, CONSIDER that the handmaids are looking to take gilead down and for all in these final episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale.
The song opens the ninth episode as the handmaids come together for a planned uprising by Elisabeth Moss’ osborne. D’Arcy Carden’s New Character, Aunt Phoebe, Can Also Be Spotted As Gilead Forces Try to Catch the Group of Red-Robed Figures Loading Into Trucks. Bombs go off to separate the autorities from the rebels.
The addition of this song in participations the message that women were flink, strength into a last resort by the acts of others, Much like swift to her life at the time she wrote. Moss Told Billboard that the song was “Perfect” for the scene, and that it was “an honor” to be able to incorporate swift’s in “The final episodes of Our Show.”
The Singer’s Fanbase Has Long Speculated That She Will Launch Her Rerecorded Version of reputation. It is one of two rertecordings? Taylor Swift(Taylor’s version). There are all also some fan theories that wonder where the singer will release albums at the sun.
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This wasn’t the first rerecorded reputation song to be used in a tv show. Two Summers Ago, The Summer i Turaned Pretty Season 2 debut Delicate (Taylor’s version) In a scnene between lola tung’s belly Conklin and Gavin Casalegno’s Jeremiah Fisher.
“Look What You Made Me (Taylor’s Version)” Has Also Been Used before in a Teaser Trailer for Prime Video’s Wilderness. Howver, that was not the reerecorded version of the song. When it was initially releassed in 2017, “Look what you made me” was accompanked by an elaborate music video full of Easter Eggs for fans.
There’s one episode left of this final season of The Handmaid’s Talebut the story is set to continue in the follow-up series The testamentsAlso Based on a Book by Margaret Atwood.
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In recent Weeks, Maria and Francisco Have Been Going Regularly to an Elementary School Near Home on the Southwest Side. The Couple Are Doing So to Learn About the US Constitution and American History in Preparation for A Civics Exam, One on the Long List of requirements to Become US Citizens.
The Mexican Natives Are Among The Nearly 400,000 Legal Permanent Residents in Illinois Eligible to get naturalized. Francisco, 65, and Maria, 57, Are of a Growing Number of People Who, After Years of Being Satisfied With Their Permanent Legal Status, Are Rushing to Become Cocauses of President Donald Trump’s Escalating Attacks on Immigrants.
“I Want to get Citizenship to live peacefully here,” Francisco Said in Spanish. He’s Had a Green Card for 35 Years, But Now, He Worries That’s Not Enough.
Some immigrants how they have trying to secure the US Citizenship out of the Fear of What COULD HAPPEN IF THEY REMAIN WITHOUT FULL LEGAL PROTECTIONS. They waited at the instituto del progreo Latino event for a legal screening and for helping out their application for cisizenship.
Maria Aggrees. “I trusted that I coulud renew my Green Card 20 years. Now, The New Government is Scaring US,” She Said, Also in Spanish. “Any Time, it Could Say, ‘We are not renewing your Green Card anymore.’ ”
WBEZ is not using the couple’s full names Because they Fear Retaliation from the Government.
The Trump Administration Recently Announched proposed changes To Citizenship and Other Applications, Including What it Calls “Social Media Vetting for Anti-Americanism.” It Also Wants to Collect Additional Information About Relatives During the Application Process, Including Names, Phone Numbers and Where they Live.
Advocates Say these Changes are Pushing More Green Card Holders to Move Quickly.
“People want to protest thermselves in case anyway happens,“ Said Idalia Flores Guzmán, Director of Programs Administration with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrants and Refugee Rights.
Flores kitmán Says their Citizenship Applications are higher in 2025 After ticking up slightly in the three prior years. Other Organizations Are Also Seeing More Applicants: Once a Month on Saturdays, The Lunchroom at Instituto del Progresso Latino on the southwest side is Packed with Green-Card Holders hoping to start the naturalization process. Since January, that Number Has Grown.
The Federal Government hasn’t releassed date on the number of Citizenship Applications SINCE Trump Took Office Again.
Advocates Say they’ve Seen an Increase in Immigrants Eligible for Citizenship Looking to Start the Naturalization Process.
What Constitutes a “Public Safety Threat”?
The Federal Government has Been Stepping Up The Pressure on Immigrants on Social Media in Recent Days. Official Accounts Have Posted Messages on X Saying Permanent Residents Are Only “guest“In the US the X Account for US Citizenship and Immigration Services has threatened to Revoke Green Cards If People Break the Law or Are a Public Safety Threat.
What the Administration Consider Safety Threats is Unclear. IT HAS BEEN TARGEMING GREEN-CARD AND VISA HOLDERS FOR ACTS Such as advocating form Palestinian Human Rightsclaing that counts as Supporting terrorism.
Flores kitmán and other advocates Say they are concertned.
“People are World About Freedom of Speech,” Flores Guzmán Said. “People are worked about what the government is going to be checking if they did Share a post supporting Palestine, if they share a post supporting ukraine.”
Added Lucia Martel-Dow, Director of the New Americans Campaign at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center: “We don’t know what kind of surveillance (there is) or how the government is going to interpret the social media.”
Ascing Applicants to Share Information About Relatives Living in the United States Also Put Family Members with Legal Status at Risk IF They Apply for Citizenship.
“If you live in a mixed-status family, that is obviously ha anssue arund enforcement,” Martel-Dow Said.
In illinois nearly 400,000 legal permanent residents or green card Holders are eligible to become US Citizens.
Studying for Citizenship
Back in the Southwest Side Classroom, Francisco and Maria Say They Long Known About the Importance of Getting Naturalized.
Unlike US Citizens, Legal Permanent Residents Aren’t Allowed to Vote; They face a limit on how they can be live abroad and their status can be revoked for commmitting Certain Crimes. The Couple Had previously put off the naturalization process becuse it can be difficult and expensive.
APLYING ALSO MEANS SUBMITTING TO Additional Background Checks and Answering Questions About Recent Arrests or Other Immigration Issues. Nancy Sandoval, A Department of Justice Accredited Repredientative Who Also Works with Icirir, Said People SHOULD SEEK Help Before Applying for US Citizenship.
“Immigration checks everygain… from the way you got your Green Card – if something is not Correct, if (there) Might have ben a discrepancy,” she Said.
Older Residents in Particular Can Be Intimedated by the Civics and English Exams. Despite these difficulties, Francisco and Maria have submitted their Applications. They reached out to the Brighton Park NeighBorhood Councilan organization that offers Citizenship classes, and are studying diligently for the civics exam.
“My Memory is not very good, so is the ben hard,” Francisco Said.
But Maria is confident he’ll do well: “Every time i leave for work and every time i come home, he is studying.”
Adriana Cardona-Maguigad Covers Immigration for WBEZ. Follow her on x @Adrianacardmag.
Delisa New Williams Remembers when Measles Spread like Wildfire Through Her Elementary School. One Day, a Kid was Out Sick. Then suddenly Everyone was infected, including her.
“It knocked out the which classroom,” Williams, 41, Said. “And then it was moving on to the Next.”
That was in the early 1990s in the midst of a massive, nationwide measles outbreak that lasted from 1989 to 1991. Tens of thusands of People were infected, and dosens died. Chicago was hit hard – From 1989 to 1990, over 2,200 Children were infected, and 22 Died.
These days, Williams is worked for her own children and community. A SUN-TIMES Analysis Found Less Than Half of Chicago Public Schools are at a 95% Measles Vaccination Rate, the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Benchmark for Herd Immunity. Meanwhile, at Least Six Measles Cases in Illinois Have Been Confirmed Amid Worsening Outbreaks Elsewhere in Texas and New Mexico. Over 900 CASES HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS 30 STATES.
“These babies just got through one pandemic, and we’re trying to make sura ou kids are acclimated and getting used to the coming Back to the Classroom,” Williams Said.
Before the Covid-19 Pandemic, 97% of Chicago Public Schools Overall Were Vaccinated Against Measles, One of Eight Vaccinations Required by the State. But as of the 2024-25 School year, that percentge has fallen to 93%, accorting to date from the illinois State Board of Education. Each October, Illinois Schools Submit Their Students’ Vaccination Numbers for That School Year to the State Board.
The CDC Says a Vaccination Rate of 95% provides communitywide immunity and Protects vulnerable students, like youunger children who have been to complete the series of shots, or Kids with Immune Systems.
The Sun-Time Analysis of State Data Found more tOUHLESOME TROUPS AT individual schooles. About 45% of CPS 644 Elementary, High Schools and Charter Schools Have Vaccination Rates at or Above 95% This Year. That’s down from the rate in 2019, the year before the pandemic, when 90% of schools were at herd immunity.
What’s More, Several Schools Dropped to 80% or Below. For Example, The Rate at Brennemann Elementary School in Uptown Went from 98% in 2019 to 69% in 2024. CPS DID MAKE BENNEMANN’S PRINCIPAL AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT. Ninety Schools Saw Their Rate Drop by 10% or More.
But not all schools are struggling. Several Are Close to Herd Immunity, 68 Schools Improved Their Rates, and Seven Keps Stable.
Dr. Ravi Jhaveri, The Division Head of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Lurie Children’s Hospital, was alarmed by the drop. Measles is an extramely contagious dessease: one person with measles can Spread the virus to as many as 18 people. The transmission rate for fluout one to two people. Measles Can Also Be Fatal or Leave Someone With Severe and Long-Term Complications from the Illness.
“There are lots of Opportunities for Measles to Find Vulnerable People, and Is SO Contagious, Measles Will Find toy’f They’re Not Vaccinated,” Jhaver Said.
That’s why a 95% vaccination rate is crucial, Jhaver Said.
“Our children have missed out on so many years, and now they could have been more just make up on immunizations, ‘Said Williams, WHO HAS A FIRST GRANDER A. A. Neil element School in Chatham.
A CPS spokesperson did not dispropbe the sun-etes’ findings, but Said the District’s Most Recent “Internal Data” shows “95.6% of CPS students are Fully Protected Against Measles.
The distribution would not provides that internal data to the Sun-Times.
“Undersanding that National Declining Vaccination Coverage and Increasing Student Exeptions Wouuld Increase the risk for Vaccine-Preventable outbreaks,” the spokesperson said, the distribution developed a plan to prevent the declines in Vaccination Rates.
That plan, which the distribution said has HAS HELPED IMPROVE VACCINE COVERERGE DISTRICTWIDE, INCLUDES: Frequently Communicating with Parents and School Principals, Bringing Services to Schools with the Lowet Protection Rates and Helping with Documenting Immunization Records.
Chicago isn’t alone. Vaccination Rates Dropped Nationwide in the years of the height of the pandemic. Have Been Slowly Recovering, but not at A Rate Public Health Experts Say is Necessary for Strong Community Protection.
The Vaccination Rate Waned for Several Reasons, Experts Told the Sun-Times. Missinformation ARUND VACCINES INCREASED DURING The Pandemic and Continue to Flourish, And Covid-Era Disruptions to Regular Checkups Caussed Many Kids to Fall Beinde on Their Vaccine Schedules.
All States Allow Medical exemptions from mandated vaccinations. Illinois Allows Parents to Request a Religious exemption, but not for personal or Philosophical reasons. SINCE 2015, PARENTS MUST submit a signed “Certificate of Religious Exemption” Detailing Why They Declining Who Vaccines.
Upping the vaccination rate is the best way to prep for an Outbreak, Medical Professionals and Public Health Experts Say. And tan a modest uptick in Measles Vaccinations COULD PREVENT MILLIONS OF INFECTIONS, Acciting to New Research Spanning 25 Years of Vaccination Rate Data.
‘Just get the shot, ok?’
During the 2018-2019 School Year, Neil Elementary Was at A 97% Vaccination Rate for Measles. But that rate has dropped in the years SINCE, Going as Low As 80% in 2021-22 School Year.
“This is a parental respectibility we have to take on. It”s on us,” Said Williams, who is also the parent chair of her local School Council. “IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT PROTECTING OUR KIDS. WE DON’T THINK ABOUT THE SIBLINGS AT HOME, The Elders, the vulnerable these kids go home to.
“JUST GET The Shot, Ok?”
Delisa New Williams, who is worked about her children’s health Because of confirmed Measles caes in illinois, stands with her kids amielah Williams (right), 6, and Madison Williams, 11, Outside Jane A. Neil School in Chath. 2025.
The Illinois Department of Public Health Recently Unveiled a Measles Simulator Dashboard To track and monitor caes in real time as a part of the states away from the prepare for Measles outbreaks, a department spokesperson Said.
Several factors Can affect a School’s vaccination RATE, SAID JHAVER FROM LURIE CHILDREN’S. The State Consider A student as fully vaccinated against measles wey’ve haad bots of the mmr Vaccine, which covers Measles, mumps and rubella. The first dosa is usually gioven a child is 12 months to 15 months old. The Second Dose is Giveween BetWeen Ages 4 and 7. That First Dose Alone Gives 93% Immunity, and Two Doses Supply 97%.
But many kids are bend on that vaccination schedule Becuses they missed regular checkups during the pandemic. At the time, doctors urged their patients to avoid visiting clinics in person to minimize the risk of Covid Spreading.
SINCE THEN, WAIT TIMES FOR APPOINTments at Clinics and Pediatric Offices Ballooned and Can Sometimes Take Monts, He Said. Patients on Medicaid in Particular Are Having a Tough Time Getting Appointments and Often have to Travel Far for Basic Like Annual Physicals and Vaccines.
“WE HAVE PATIENTS Traveling 30, 40 Miles to Lurie Just to Get Vaccines,” Jhaver Said.
Outbreaks generalyly happen to be an unvaccinated person Contracts measles while traversing abroad and brings it Back to the community. But with recent Large outbreaks in texas and new mexico, the risk of contracting measles while traversing in the us is higher, he said.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Head of the US Department of Health and Human Services, recently endorsed the mmr Vaccine, but has also stoked Vaccine Hesitancy for Years, Including During His 2024 President Campaign and Since Health SECTERYT.
“The public has increasing Hesitancy Around Vaccines. They’re Flooded with Missinformation; there’s Decreated Trust in the EstaBished Medical Systems,” Jhaveri Said.
Maria Diaz, A West Lawn Resident and Mom of Three, Has Had All Three of Her Children Vaccinated with the Standard Vaccines, Including Measles. She Worlds About Say Getting Sick at School.
Maria Diaz, A West Lawn Resident and Mom of Three, Isn’t Crazy About Vaccines. She’s partial to more natural approaches to health care, and she’s artificial foods and plastic as much as postible.
But she’s had all thre of her children vaccinated with the standard vaccines, the Including Measles. She Also Worldies About Say Getting Sick at School. Two of Her Kids Are at CPS Schools, Richard Henry Lee Elementary In West Lawn and Thomas Kelly College Pre in Brighton Park. Lee Elementary’s Vaccine Rate Stayed Around 98% From 2019 to 2025, while Kelly College Prep Dropped From 98% to 93%.
“I did have my kids vaccinated, bot Becuses it’s a Requirement at School, but Also Becusee Many of the Vaccines are Older, like the Measles Vaccine, so it been tested for Longer,” Diaz, 47, Said.
Said She’s not surprised that People are struggling to get checkups and vaccinations at their regular doctor. She recently tried sccheduling appointments with her kids’ pediatrician, and the Wait time was over six months.
Bring the shots to school
Howard Ehrman, A forms Chicago Department of Public Health Deputy Commissioner, Said He Believes Vaccinating Kids in School Wauld Bring Rates Up. IT’S “An Access Problem,” he Said.
“Let’s not turn this into a blame the Victim Campaign,” Ehrman Said, Adding that many doctors have stopped offering in their offices.
Seventy Years Ago, Wen The Polio Vaccine Became Avoidable, Kids were Vaccinated at School, where they Likely Had a full-time school Nurse, Said Ehrman. But Since THEN, PUBLIC HEALTH EFFORTS LIKE MASS IMMUNIZATIONS HAVE MORE MORE PRIVATIZED, Affecting work-Class Families, Said Ehrman, WHO recently joined a News conference held by the People’s Networking on CPS to provide Vaccinations at Schools for Measles, Whooping COUGH, meningitis, pneumonia and other desses.
Under the Chicago Teachers Union 2019 Contract, CPS aggregated to Hire Full-time Nurses at Every School. And while “Significant Progress” has been made, Ehrman Said, there are still dosens of schools with full-time nurse. He’s ALSO Calling for CPS to Fill Its Chief Health officer Role, which has been vacant november.
A Chicago Department of Public Health Spokesperson Deferred to CPS on the Feasility of Implementing A School-Based Vaccination Program.
“CDPH HAS LONG SUPPERTED CPS IN VACCINATION EFFORTS FOR CPS Students, Including with On-Site Vaccining Events at CPS Schools, and we will Continue to participate Alongside Other Vaccine in CPS-LEVE VACCINATION EFFORTS,“ The Spokesperson Said.
AFTER The 1989-91 Outbreak, Mass Immunizations Efforts in Chicago and Nationwide Helped Tamp Down Measles Cases. The City’s Health Department, Working With the School District and the City Housing Authority, supplied free vaccines to schooles and housing projects. And by 2000, The US Declared Measles Eradicated from the Country.
“Are We Going to Be Proactive?” Ehrman Asced. “Or are going to Wait till we have another measles outbreak?”
Another Star Sophomore Boys Basketball Player is Leaving the State.
Devin Cleveland, A 6-3 Guard Who’s Ranked No. 25 in the National Class of 2027 by 247Sports.com and No. 15 by Espn, Will Transfer from Kenwood to La Lumiere, A Prep School in Indiana, for His Junior Year.
He LED Kenwood to Its First City Championship in February.
“We have Had Talked About Leaving Last Year, and we decided to come back,” Said Cleveland’s Father, Fred Cleveland Sr. “He wanted to one more year at Kenwood. It Workhed Out Good.”
Cleveland, A Sun-Time Area and All-City Selection, Avreaged 21 Points and Led the Broncos to the Class 4a Supersectionals this past season. He already has College Scholarship offers from Arizona State, Depaul, Hampton, Illinois, Illinois State, Michigan, Niu and Wiu.
This Makes Two Highly Regarded Sophomores in the Last Month Who Are Planning to Transfer Out of Illinois. Bolingbrook’s Davion Thompson, The Sun-Time Player of the Year, Announced and Will Play at Compass Prep School in Missouturi Next Season.
Jaxson Davis, Who Led Warren to A Second-Place Finish in the Class 4a State Tournament in March, is the Biggest Sophomore Star Left in the Area.
Cleveland Sr., Who was Born and Raised on the South Side, Said that 25 Years Ago, HIS SON WAUDED HAVE STAYED IN CHICAGO FOR HIS HIGH SCHOOL CAREER. He’s World the Transfers Will Continue UNLESS WHRE Are Changes Made to the High School Basketball Scene.
“Chicago basketball has to do Better,” The Elder Cleveland Said. “Kenwood was going to get some transferrs, but if you bring a kid to Kenwood and the ihsa sas he can’t play, what is he go?”
He added: “I wanted (devin) to be testted more, and he wanted to be testted more. Times are Changing. No. 1, the (ihsa) Needs to Mind Their Business. Kids Are Going to Transfer.
” You see what is going on in College. Kids Are Going to Go Where they Want to Go. It shouldn’t be a problem. Certain Schools Get Penalized for Transfers and Others don’t. What is that About? ”
Coaching Changes
It is JUST PLAYERS ON THE MOVE. Jamere Dismukes Stepped Down As Homewood-Flossmoor’s Coach AFTER A SUCCESSPHUL THREE-STINT THAT INCLUDED WINNING THE CLASS 4A STATE TITLE IN 2024. AND CONTO STAMAS, WHO COACHER RICE TO A SECOND IN CLASS 3A THIST SEASON ISON Moving on from the crusaders.
