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Students calling for better COVID-19 health and safety procedures in Chicago Public Schools briefly block traffic at the intersection of State and Madison streets in Chicago near CPS headquarters on Jan. 14, 2022.

Chicago Public Schools students stage walkout over return to in-person learning amid lackluster COVID precautions

January 14, 2022 at 8:57 p.m.

Classes might be back in session for Chicago Public Schools, but students are worried about the health consequences of that return. This week the Chicago Teachers Union voted to approve...

Signs in support of the Chicago Teachers Union are handed out before a caravan from Union Park to Chicago's City Hall Jan. 5, 2022. Chicago Public Schools classes were canceled Wednesday after a Tuesday night CTU vote in favor of refusing in-person work until further COVID-19 safety measures are implemented.

While Chicago Public Schools and the union fought over COVID-19, Mount Greenwood Elementary opened for business

January 11, 2022 at 6:39 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools students — at least those not in COVID-19 quarantine — will head back to class Wednesday after the resolution of another dispute between the district and the...

University of Illinois-Chicago first year architecture graduate student Martina Smith outside the UIC art and architecture building on Nov. 16, 2021. Smith is the first recipient of the Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture (HPA) endowment that will support two graduate architecture fellows this fall.

Chicago’s architectural community is trying to diversify with the help of a new UIC fellowship and a project led by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designer Tiara Hughes

January 10, 2022 at 12:11 a.m.

University of Illinois Chicago graduate student Martina Smith has always been curious about buildings. Growing up in Jamaica, a colorful structure that she called "the cake house" sparked her curiosity...

Eli Coustan displays his new website, findacovidtest.org, which can help people locate at-home COVID-19 tests that can be mailed to them, on Jan. 5, 2022, in Evanston.

Evanston Township High School freshman Eli Coustan is continuing to help Illinoisans, this time with Findacovidtest.org

January 6, 2022 at 11:16 a.m.

Just last year, Eli Coustan was lending his computer programming skills to help seniors like his grandparents find and book COVID-19 vaccination appointments with the website, ILVaccine.org. Now, the teen...

Kristin Lee Berg, profesora asociada de UIC, supervisa su clase de becas del Programa de Educación en Liderazgo en el Neurodesarrollo y Discapacidades Relacionadas (LEND) desde su oficina en casa el 11 de noviembre de 2021, en los suburbios de Lincolnshire. La profesora Berg es directora de capacitación del programa, que ayuda a los estudiantes graduados a aprender sobre la salud y el bienestar de las personas con discapacidades.

Los adolescentes con discapacidades son 5 veces más propensos a sufrir trastornos mentales, emocionales y de salud conductual, dicen investigadores

January 6, 2022 at 11:10 a.m.

La pandemia ha puesto al descubierto algunas verdades: La falta de proveedores de servicios de salud mental para atender suficientemente las necesidades de las personas en crisis (incluidos los proveedores...

La enfermera especializada en trasplantes de pulmón Jennifer Wright coloca un estetoscopio sobre Brittani Bury en el Northwestern Memorial Hospital el 23 de diciembre de 2021 en Chicago.

Teens with disabilities are 5 times more likely to suffer from mental, emotional and behavioral health disorders, UIC researchers say.

December 29, 2021 at 2:44 p.m.

The pandemic has revealed some truths: A lack of mental health providers to sufficiently meet the needs of those in crisis (including providers of color); and the stress that COVID-19...

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Chicago Public Schools students stage walkout over return to in-person learning amid lackluster COVID precautions

While Chicago Public Schools and the union fought over COVID-19, Mount Greenwood Elementary opened for business

Chicago’s architectural community is trying to diversify with the help of a new UIC fellowship and a project led by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designer Tiara Hughes

Evanston Township High School freshman Eli Coustan is continuing to help Illinoisans, this time with Findacovidtest.org

Los adolescentes con discapacidades son 5 veces más propensos a sufrir trastornos mentales, emocionales y de salud conductual, dicen investigadores

Después de más de 200 días en un hospital, Brittani Bury se va con corazón, pulmones y futuro nuevos

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Teens with disabilities are 5 times more likely to suffer from mental, emotional and behavioral health disorders, UIC researchers say.