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Today, Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10) announced the award of $202,000 to the Chicago Horticultural Society, which operates the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, to conserve, digitize, and disseminate rare and fragile horticultural records. The grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

On Saturday, April 14, Congressman Brad Schneider will host a public symposium at the Chicago Botanic Garden to discuss the future of our economy, environment, and education with thought leaders and experts from across Illinois's Tenth District.

Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10) will host a "Congress on Your Corner" event to answer questions from constituents and brief attendees on his work in Washington on Saturday, April 7 at 10:00 a.m. The event will be held at Libertyville High School and is open to the public.

This will be Schneider's 21^st Congress on Your Corner town hall event since taking office in January 2017.

WHO:

Rep. Brad Schneider and constituents of Illinois's Tenth District

WHAT:

Today, Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10) announced his Lincolnshire Office will serve as a community drop-off location during the April 2018 Help USA Troops collection drive. Help USA Troops is an Arlington Heights–based non-profit that ships boxes of care and comfort items to service members deployed around the world.

Constituents may drop-off items for care packages to American servicemembers beginning today, Monday, April 2, 2018 until Tuesday, April 24, 2018.

Today, a bipartisan proposal focused on improving school safety introduced by U.S. Representatives Brad Schneider (D-IL) and Mike Bost (R-IL) was signed into law by President Donald Trump.

The legislation will help schools acquire panic buttons for classrooms, offering a more immediate method of notifying law enforcement and first responders in case of a medical emergency, active school shooter incident, or natural disaster.