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Migratory bird rule. In 2001, Skokie's decision to use an isolated wetland as a solid waste disposal site resulted in a lawsuit. Ultimately, the case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, and resulted in an overturn of the federal migratory bird rule.
The 1940 change of name may also have been influenced by James Foster Porter, a Chicago native, who had explored the "Skoki Valley" in Banff National Park in Canada in 1911 and became captivated by the name. Porter supported the name "Skokie" in the referendum when he returned to America.
Every May since 1991, the park district hosts the Skokie Festival of Cultures to celebrate the village's diverse ethnic composition. Westfield Old Orchard, an upscale shopping center, is one of the country's first and is the third largest mall by total square footage in Illinois.
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie. The Skokie Park District maintains public spaces and historical sites within its more than 240 acres (0.97 km 2) of parkland and in its ten facilities.
The Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park is situated along the North Shore Channel between Dempster Street and Touhy Avenue on the east side of McCormick Boulevard. The first sculptures were built in the park in 1988 and it now has over 70 sculptures. Three areas are toured May through October of each year, on the last Sunday of the month with a presentation by a docent. Just north of the sculpture garden is a statue to Mahatma Gandhi with five of his famous quotations engraved around the base. This was dedicated on October 2, 2004.
However, the name caused postal confusion with the neighboring village of Niles. A village-renaming campaign began in the 1930s. In a referendum on November 15, 1940, residents chose the Native American name "Skokie" over the name "Devonshire.".
The National Medal is awarded annually by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, the primary source of federal support for the nation's 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums, to five libraries and five museums. The library's cultural programming and multilingual services were cited in the award presentation. Skokie Public Library is the first public library in Illinois to be awarded the medal.
When the Nazis came to Skokie. In 1977, the leader of the Nationalist Socialist Party of America, Frank Collin, announced a march through the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Ill. While a neo-Nazi march would be controversial under any circumstances, the fact that one out of six people in Skokie were Holocaust survivors made it even more provocative.
Victor Rosenblum, a professor of law at Northwestern University and past chairman of the Anti-Defamation League’s Chicago branch, made the counter-argument : “The Nazis’ march in paraphernalia is a reminder of the most destructive movement in history. They stand for the destruction and wiping out of human beings.
Skokie was one of the first decisions in what would become an ongoing debate over the constitutionality of limiting hate speech. The issue arose when the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) requested permission to hold a demonstration in the community of Skokie. The NSPA was a group devoted to inciting racial and religious hatred, primarily against people of the Jewish faith and non-Caucasians. Skokie was home to some 70,000 people, of whom 40,500 were Jews, and of those 5,000–7,000 were survivors of Nazi concentration camps. Because of the high population of Jews, village leaders sought to enjoin the demonstration, but the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the NSPA had a First Amendment right to demonstrate in Skokie.
Because of the high population of Jews, village leaders sought to enjoin the demonstration, but the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the NSPA had a First Amendment right to demonstrate in Skokie.
In Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America, 373 N. E. 2d 21 (Ill. 1978), the Illinois Supreme Court held that the display of swastikas did not constitute fighting words and thus the enjoining of that speech was an unconstitutional prior restraint. The Illinois decision would set the foundation for later hate speech cases.
The application for stay was treated as a petition for certiorari and the U.S. Supreme Court, in Nationalist Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977) reversed and remanded. On remand, the case wound itself back to the Appellate Court, First District, and then back to the Illinois Supreme Court in the case described here.
Relying on this reasoning from Cohen, the state supreme court in Skokie found that it would be impossible for governmental entities to determine which offensive words and symbols did not merit First Amendment protection and which invectives were worthy of it.
The court first established that “public expression of ideas may not be prohibited merely because the ideas are themselves offensive to some of their hearers. ”. In other words, the listener’s feelings could not be considered valid reasons for prohibiting speech.
Skokie was, at that time, a village with a 57% Jewish population and a number of its residents were survivors of Nazi concentration camps.
The Appellate Court went on to reason that the prohibition, in so far as it pertained to the distribution of pamphlets and displaying of materials that incite or promote hatred, was unnecessary since the NSPA did not intend to engage in such communications.
Supreme Court could not review the decision of the Illinois Supreme Court in this case because it was not a “final judgment”, and therefore the issue was not yet within the U.S. Supreme Court’s jurisdiction. The dissenters noted that the merits of the claim on the constitutional validity of the prohibition had not yet come before an appellate court in Illinois. Nevertheless, the dissenters did agree that the prohibition was “extremely broad” and was likely to be substantially modified on appeal. [p. 45]
Supreme Court on a writ of certiorari (i.e. a writ by which a higher court reviews the decision of a lower court).
Courtesy of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center; gift of Elaine Diamond.
Robert E. Lee, Skokie was chosen as the hub for American neo-Nazis in 1977 and 1978 because of the number of Holocaust survivors who called it home. The exact number of survivors who lived in ...
Goldberger said he saw the case as one that posed a threat to constitutional liberties if it weren't defended. "I was very outspoken, as was the entire ACLU, about the First Amendment right of the Nazis to hold a peaceful assembly," Goldberger told ABC News. But not everyone saw it that way.
Protesters are pictured at an Anti-Nazi demonstration in front of the Skokie village hall, May 1977. In the town itself, the legacy of the march lives on. "The village became attached to what happened," Van Dusen, Skokie's current mayor, said.
A large group of anti-Nazi demonstrators chant at a park in the predominantly Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, July 4, 1977, protesting a possible future march in Skokie by Nazis.
Kenneth Jacobson is the deputy national director of the Anti-Defamation League. He also worked out of the ADL's New York office at the time of the Skokie debate. "Jews were feeling a level of equality unmatched anywhere else," Jacobson told ABC News. "Jewish life in America started to reach the pinnacle that it reached later, ...
While hate groups were ultimately not allowed to march on Skokie, their message still resonates with white supremacists and members of the far-right today, according to Heidi Beirich, the director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center. "Skokie was a planned decision by Nazis basically to pick a place to come together in ...
Migratory bird rule. In 2001, Skokie's decision to use an isolated wetland as a solid waste disposal site resulted in a lawsuit. Ultimately, the case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, and resulted in an overturn of the federal migratory bird rule.
The 1940 change of name may also have been influenced by James Foster Porter, a Chicago native, who had explored the "Skoki Valley" in Banff National Park in Canada in 1911 and became captivated by the name. Porter supported the name "Skokie" in the referendum when he returned to America.
Every May since 1991, the park district hosts the Skokie Festival of Cultures to celebrate the village's diverse ethnic composition. Westfield Old Orchard, an upscale shopping center, is one of the country's first and is the third largest mall by total square footage in Illinois.
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie. The Skokie Park District maintains public spaces and historical sites within its more than 240 acres (0.97 km 2) of parkland and in its ten facilities.
The Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park is situated along the North Shore Channel between Dempster Street and Touhy Avenue on the east side of McCormick Boulevard. The first sculptures were built in the park in 1988 and it now has over 70 sculptures. Three areas are toured May through October of each year, on the last Sunday of the month with a presentation by a docent. Just north of the sculpture garden is a statue to Mahatma Gandhi with five of his famous quotations engraved around the base. This was dedicated on October 2, 2004.
However, the name caused postal confusion with the neighboring village of Niles. A village-renaming campaign began in the 1930s. In a referendum on November 15, 1940, residents chose the Native American name "Skokie" over the name "Devonshire.".
The National Medal is awarded annually by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, the primary source of federal support for the nation's 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums, to five libraries and five museums. The library's cultural programming and multilingual services were cited in the award presentation. Skokie Public Library is the first public library in Illinois to be awarded the medal.
In 1888, the community was incorporated as Niles Centre. About 1910, the spelling was Americanized to "Niles Center". However, the name caused postal confusion with the neighboring village of Niles. A village-renaming campaign began in the 1930s. In a referendum on November 15, 1940, residents chose the Native American name "Skokie" over the name "Devonshire."
According to the 2010 census, Skokie has a total area of 10.06 square miles (26.06 km ), all land. The village is bordered by Evanston to the east, Chicago to the southeast and southwest, Lincolnwood to the south, Niles to the southwest, Morton Grove to the west, Glenview to the northwest, and Wilmette to the north.
The village's street circulation is a street-grid pattern, with a major east–west thoroughfare ever…
The Skokie Park District maintains public spaces and historical sites within its more than 240 acres (0.97 km ) of parkland and in its ten facilities. The district is a recent winner of the national "Gold Medal for Excellence" in parks and recreation management. Every May since 1991, the park district hosts the Skokie Festival of Cultures to celebrate the village's diverse ethnic composition.
The village's AAA bond rating attests to strong economic health via prudent fiscal management. In 2003, Skokie became the first municipality in the United States to achieve nationally accredited police, fire, and public works departments, and a Class-1 fire department, per the Insurance Services Office (ISO) ratings. Likewise, in 2003 Money magazine named Skokie one of the 80 fastest-growing suburbs in the U.S.
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.
Per the census of 2000, the Village of Skokie was composed of 63,348 people who formed in 23,223 households containing 17,045 families. The village's population density was 6,308.70 peo…
The Chicago "L"s Yellow Line terminates at the Dempster Street station in Skokie. Construction has been completed on a new Yellow Line train station at Oakton Street, to serve downtown Skokie and environs. It opened on April 30, 2012. Additionally, the CTA is commissioning an Alternative Analysis Study on the extension of the Yellow Line terminal to Old Orchard Road for Federal Transit Administration New Start grants. The New Starts program allows federal funds to be use…
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