abner mikva remains a revered fighter in illinois and a favorite son of evanston, remembered for his enduring wit, humanity and the ongoing legacy of the mikva challenge. and let me just say personally that on july 4, 2016, while america lost a great patriot, i also lost a very precious friend and mentor and i am so happy that we are going to pay an appropriate tribute to his great memory and his legacy and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. hice: i thank the gentlelady and i'd like delegate norton to know i have no further speakers. i'm prepared to close. ms. norton: i endorse the words of my good friend, ms. schakowsky, and urge the passage of this bill to honor the legacy of abner mikva and commemorate his exemplary life of public service across all branches of our federal government. urge the passage of h.r. 5798, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from the district of columbia yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from georgia is recognized.

. >> we find pretty big racial achievement gap in evanston.n find in other places in the country, but what we found most interesting and potentially alarming about evanston is that it has all the makings of a kind of ideal american city. you know, it is a college town, northwestern is right almost it's relatively affluent. the community's very dedicated to public education. they spend a lot of money on it. and they have an integrated school system and that's why a lot of people are there. so despite all of that, there's still an achievement gap between white students and black and hispanic students. >> what accounts for it? what did you see that lead you to better understand why that gap is existent? >> yeah, there is an inequality of school systems in terms of how black students are treated, how they're disciplined. often just the expectations of them. and that has a pretty deep effect and it's separate from income. so what the research shows is that even among high income white and black students, there is an achievement gap. >> so the inten

one of the workers was taken by evanston hospital for treatment and the other three were treated at the scene. >>> buckeye police have identified the woman found dead in the canal is friday. she lived in surprise, it's unclear what led to her death. if you have any information that could help investigators be sure to call buckeye police. holding out until the very end. let's get a live look at time right now. the sun has returned. after a gloomy morning here across the valley, this was the scene around downtown phoenix. this was earlier this morning. there are plenty of titles out there. the showers move through. -- there are plenty of puddles out there as the showers move through. not a ton of rainfall has been picked up in the valley or flagstaff but it's nice to get those close to start off the day. there's nothing happening in the valley right now. we will continue to have a chance of storms tonight here's the bigger picture. this much more activity over in south east arizona. we have some flood advisories and i talked. temperatures are dipping into the 60s and 70s. overnight. we wi

still stands out in my mind is one nobody else remembers because it was played in dike stadium in evanston and we had a very good football team probably the worst pass inthrew in my life should of been 10 sprint champ slid off his hands into the hands of kevin furlong and we won the game 6- nothing nobody could move the football and it was just a fluke sot :30 oc: "it was a fluke " coach ferentz called randy duncan a true hawkeye legend who lived life to the fullest. after a bye week the uni panthers are back in action this week hosting southern illinois in their conference opener. it's important to get off to a good start because the valley is stacked this year. and as we all know we keep the conference is very good but what happened in the conference most notable right now is there's four bcs wins in our league and that might be the first time that's happened ever now with western beating northern illinois this weekend so there's a lot of confidence in the league their is a lot talent in the league sot :18 oc: "talent in the league " and finally the prairie hawks are one of the hottest f

the wildcats were losing their big ten opener in evanston.. twentieth ranked nebraska. the loss dropped northwestern to 1 and 3 overall on the season. despite the wildcats' record---coach kirk ferentz and the hawkeyes expect a hardfought competitive game on saturday. they're always dangerous. if where they're at; i think most of us want to get better right now. they've got great young people on their team, and i expect good quarterback, very good runningback. they know what they're doing--the coaching staff has been there for eight yars both coordinators. they know what they're doing and they're well coached and they execute it so its going to be a challenge anytime we play eachother. both teams come to play and whatever team brings it that day is going to win. the hawks and northwestern kick if from kinnick. former hawkeye all-american quarterback randy duncan lost a lengthy battle with cancer --dying last night at the age of 79. duncan is a native of osage... and he victory over the college football hall of fame and is one of nine former duncan was the first player pi

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he was born in evanston, illinois, to his mom julian and his father jerry, after whom jerry fickes jr. is named. enlater moved to kansas city, a suburb of kansas city. his life was full of football games outside with his neighbors and five brothers and sisters, jerry, kimberly, steven and david. the neighborhood kids played together crossing through each other's yards i'm told constantly to get to different houses, that the neighbors were unsuccessful at keeping shrubs along their property line. when jerry started his freshman year in topeka, kansas, his grades were less than stellar but in reality he was bored. once he joined the army rotc things turned around. it gave him structure, he became driven. by the time he reached his junior year in college he would meet his future wife laura. while she was working jerry had it all together. he was a serious student but known to be a fun loving guy. he graduated with a degree in computer and science and math m. his motto became mind, body and spirit. if you have all three, you're sound. college and the rotc taught jerry there was a lot more