The Lockport City Council is set to deliberate on an amendment to the city code aimed at prohibiting the sale of psychoactive drugs, including kratom and any products with a THC concentration greater than 0%. The proposed ordinance also targets novel synthetic drugs and chemical analogs of kratom or other novel psychoactive substances.
In the 2022-23 school year, 55.9% of Ludwig Elementary School students failed the ELA portion of the IAR test, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.