https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=7434911&GUID=A18B7808-EA7D-47D7-92AD-4D9F69B7B0B6Legistar15https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=7434911&GUID=A18B7808-EA7D-47D7-92AD-4D9F69B7B0B6A18B7808-EA7D-47D7-92AD-4D9F69B7B0B6-2025-06-12-17-47-55Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION HONORING THE LITTLE VILLAGE LAWNDALE HIGH SCHOOL (LVLHS) ON ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY WHEREAS, the Little Village Lawndale High School (LVLHS) is a public high school located in the South Lawndale (Little Village) neighborhood of the City of Chicago; and WHEREAS, the LVLHS opened in 2005 and serves students from the South Lawndale (Little Village) and North Lawndale areas; and WHEREAS, the LVLHS originated from the community's fundamental conviction that dignified education is a human right that should be accessible to the Brown and Black young people of the South, West, and Southwest sides of the City of Chicago. Community members and advocates fought for what was promised to them about opening a new high school and led fourteen parents and grandparents to a nineteen-day hunger strike in 2001; and WHEREAS, on May 13, 2001, 14 parents and community activists began a hunger strike demanding that the city move forward with building the promised school; and WHEREAS, the group known as "The 14" or sometimes the "Hunger Strikers" fasted for 19 days, drinThu, 12 Jun 2025 17:47:55 GMT