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Teen who sat with Jill Biden at State of the Union honored by school board

Kate Foley, 15, a sophomore at Rolling Meadows High School, was honored during the Feb. 9, 2023, Township High School District 214 Board of Education meeting for getting personally invited to sit with first lady Jill Biden at the State of the Union address.

Township High School District 214 recognized Rolling Meadows, Illinois, High School sophomore Kate Foley on the heels of Foley’s trip to Washington, D.C. as a guest of first lady Jill Biden at the State of the Union address.

Foley, 15, had first met Biden when the first lady visited Rolling Meadows

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