The residency questions about Flessner come a little over a week after close mayoral adviser and Wilmette resident Lisa Schneider-Fabes resigned from her volunteer post in the mayor’s office and her paid job as a vice president at the nonprofit, Lightfoot-controlled World Business Chicago, after the Tribune reported city watchdog Joseph Ferguson was investigating an arrangement that allowed her to collect a paycheck and do work at City Hall without living in Chicago.of English; the proportion was two out of five for 18-year olds. It is not just English, 25% of the youth could not read basic text fluently even when it was in their own languages.

“Learning deficits seen in elementary school in previous years seem to carry forward as young people go from being adolescents to young adults," the report underlined. “Interestingly, although reading ability in regional languages and in English seems to improve slightly with age (more 18-year olds can read than 14-year olds), the same does not seem to apply to mathematics. The proportion of youth who have not acquired basic math skills by age 14 is the same as that of (an) 18-year (old)," it added.

The findings are disappointing and pointing to a larger problem, said