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Lane Evans Forum: Election 2020: Putting People First

Lawmakers, activists and others will gather at a forum in honor of the late Congressman Lane Evans of Rock Island, who represented the Illinois Quad Cities for 24 years. Evans, who died in 2014, was a 1974 graduate of Augustana college.

President Barack Obama has prepared a special video greeting for the gathering, which will include U.S. Rep. Jan Shakowsky, D-9th, former senator and presidential candidate Fred Harris of Oklahoma, columnist and political activist Jim Hightower, William McNary, co-executive director of Citizen Action/Illinois, and Thomas Frank, author of "What's the Matter with Kansas?"

Registration begins at noon, and the program at 1 p.m.

The forum is sponsored by the Lane Evans Legacy Project, Augustana College Democrats, and Quad Cities Interfaith.

Evans was the first Democrat to be re-elected in the 17th Congressional District of Illinois since the Civil War.

Location

Wallenberg Hall, second floor

Denkmann Memorial Building

3520 7th Avenue
Rock Island, IL 61201
United States

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Tickets

Free

RSVP requested

Contact

Augustana College Democrats
collegedemocrats@augustana.edu