The Chronicle

11/03/2025

CLC was named winner of the 2025 Impact and Success Award for the Central region from the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) on August 15, 2025 and accepted the award formally at the 2025 ACCT Leadership Congress in New Orleans last weekend, October 22-25.

"Assistant Vice President of Strategic Advancement, Dr. Nick Branson, said they developed their 2025 strategic plan based on feedback from students, faculty, and staff, along with research from other top community colleges.

'It takes teamwork and careful planning to keep what works and improve what doesn’t,' Branson said. 'That’s why we created the Lancer Success Framework, which guides students from their first contact with CLC all the way to graduation and beyond.'"

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10/29/2025

Abigail Svitko highlights the relatable struggles of womanhood and growing up  in her most recent feature in the “Evolve” exhibit at CLC’s Robert T. Wright Gallery.

"she removes the stigma surrounding womanly 'growing pains' and gives her audience access to exploration of the unmentionable."

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10/09/2025

CLC Lakeshore Campus Dean Jesus Ruiz said the campus was holding an event called “Conchas with the Dean” when a teacher walked by and made him aware of the Border Patrol agents patrolling around the college.

Ruiz walked down to interact with border patrol agents. They had a short and “polite” conversation, then got into their vehicles to drive away.

“As they were leaving, our student walked out, and that’s when they intercepted him,“ Ruiz said.

The Border Patrol agents asked for the student’s identification. The students complied with their request; however, the border patrol agents didn’t see it as valid and took him away.

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10/07/2025

09/15/2025

Lady Lancers Basketball Team finished the 2024 season by making it to the national tournament for the first time in CLC history.

The Lady Lancers’ head coach Tanner Morris led the team to nationals with a record of 27 wins and 5 losses. By defeating Kankakee Community College 75-56, the Lady Lancers punched their ticket to the NJCAA National Tournament. The team secured both the Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference Championship and the Region 4/Midwest District B Championship.

Kennedy Clark, guard/forward for the Lady Lancers, said that even though they worked hard to make it to the finals, the moment still felt unreal.

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09/15/2025

Caught Stealing, directed by Darren Aronofsky, is a tale of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, making the wrong choices in tough situations, and taking responsibility for those actions.

The film follows former baseball superstar Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) as his life completely unravels. Caught Stealing begins with Hank’s punk & eccentric neighbor, Russ (Matt Smith), forcing Hank to cat-sit for him while he’s out of town. Unbeknownst to Hank, Russ is involved in some undesirable business: the drug dealing sort. With Russ nowhere to be found, his unfriendly associates go to Hank for answers. When confronted, Hank is clueless. He doesn’t know who these people are and can’t give them what they want. Without getting into further spoilers, the film pushes Hank to every extreme as he desperately attempts to fulfill the gangsters’ demands.

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06/24/2025

North Chicago City Council on May 19 approved a rezoning request that shifts a site at 3601 Skokie Highway from light to heavy industrial to allow a truck repair center to occupy part of the facility, leaving neighbors concerned about what other businesses might step in.

Brems Realty, an affiliate with Emco Chemical distributors, submitted a request for a rezoning of an industrial site. According to Brems Realty, the locations rezoning change is to establish a truck repair center. However, the truck repair company will occupy a small portion of the building, leaving the rest vacant.

“This change will align our zoning designation with the adjacent property to the north, ensuring consistency in land use and planning,” Brems Realty said in its description of the proposed map amendment. “Rezoning to M3 will provide greater flexibility for business operations, attract a wider range of commercial and industrial tenants, and enhance economic opportunities for the area.”

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05/29/2025

Three students were asked their opinion about CLC becoming a four-year college, and two of them had second thoughts about four years.

The students were asked April 8 and April 10 on the Grayslake campus.

Shelby Head said she is against it because of the increased cost t it might entail.

“I don’t want to pay more,” Head said. “That’s why I’m here.”

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05/29/2025

Five CLC staff and students were recently asked about their opinions on whether a 14-year-old is too young for love.

The five shared a similar opinion about people dating at 14: It depends. 

Daniel Killins, coordinator of the African American Student Outreach Program, said people should wait at least until 16.

“Fourteen is too young because that’s eighth grade going into freshman year of high school,” Killins said. “But I do believe that going to distance and letting the child start at least by 16 would be better off.”

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05/19/2025

Student Government Association (SGA) members traveled to Springfield April 19 to lobby for Wrap Around Student Services, but the main topic was the feasibility of four-year programs at community colleges like CLC.

The push for community colleges to offer four-year programs came after Governor JB Pritzker announced a proposal to consider doing so during a March 3 visit to Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey.

“As the home of the third largest community college system in the nation, Illinois should be doing all that it can to leverage these world-renowned institutions to meet those goals,” Pritzker said. “We have some really terrific four-year institutions that are a vital part of the higher education system in Illinois, but we need to recognize that there are geographic, financial, and accessibility constraints that close off too many students from attending those schools.”

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05/19/2025

At the end of the fall semester of 2023, CLC introduced a website to provide potential students with information on what CLC offers.

The website’s launch was rocky at first with old links directing people to 404 error pages and incomplete information of departments, clubs, organizations and resources. Over the last year since its launch, it has corrected many of the problems.

However, lack of information is still a feature of the website. From speaking to administrators and faculty members, the reason behind this change was because of safety and security concerns.

Limiting public access to information on student events and activities helps mitigate the dangers of outside threats. However, making this change also limits the amount of information that reaches enrolled students.

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