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Homer, IL - History
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Welcome to the Homer Home page. The Homer Home page provides as much information as possible on Homer. Knowing Homer’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Homer’s Home page, you will also find Homer’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Homer has a population of 1320. 50.4% of Homer’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.6 are female. 49% of Homer is married and 81.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $108,303, and the average rent is $794. Household median income in Homer is $65,347, and the individual median income is $35,526. Homer’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.3%), Hispanic(2.2%), Multiple(1.9%), Native(0.8%).
The Homer School District, which served the village and the surrounding area, set a record for the longest teacher's strike in the nation's history, spanning from October 26, 1986, to June 23, 1987. At 156 days, the strike was more than twice as long as the second-longest, set by a school district near Cleveland, Ohio during the 2002-2003 school year.
At issue throughout the negotiations was the salary formula, which the Chicago Tribune reported was "not likely to drastically change the pay rates of ... teachers." Other provisions included allowing teachers fired during the strike to be allowed to return with no loss of salary or seniority and the district's newly unionized support staff getting a 6 percent pay increase beginning July 1, and an additional 2 percent increase at the beginning of the 1988-1989 school year.
Legal fees were estimated to be $150,000. Although the strike lasted 156 days, students only lost 11 days of class time as strikebreaking teachers were hired to teach classes. However, some families moved from Homer or paid tuition to have their children attend neighboring schools. The Homer School District eventually consolidated with the Allerton-Broadlands-Longview School District (located to Homer's south), many of the teachers left and all but two school board members either did not seek re-election or were defeated in the first election after the settlement.
The town suffered from the effects of the strike for many years, according to a 2006 article in The News Gazette of Champaign-Urbana.
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