Col. Jill Morgenthaler, Governor’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Public Safety, speaks to girls at Illini Girls State Wednesday afternoon in the Grand Ballroom. She spoke about her experiences in Iraq and Bosnia where she served as a commander of a military

A miniature and autonomous government is functioning and spending a week at Eastern within the walls of Lawson Hall. It consists entirely of girls – high school girls – and 456 of them at that.

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