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Part of the campus of the University of Chicago on Sept. 30, 2015.

University of Chicago professors, students upset by layoffs and school finances

May 22, 2019 at 10:04 p.m.

Faculty members and student groups are pushing back against University of Chicago leadership and its ongoing effort to lay off administrative personnel across campus. Leaders of multiple academic divisions were...

Fredy Sosa, center, signs a banner located at the Center On Halsted to show support for the LGBTQ community and the victims of the gay nightclub shooting in Orlando on June 13, 2016.

Hundreds more officers to guard Pride events in wake of Orlando shootings

May 22, 2019 at 10:01 p.m.

Hundreds of additional Chicago police officers will keep watch over LGBT Pride events the next two weekends — a significant security boost in the wake of the mass shooting Sunday...

Richie Compton, left, and Erik Winger kneel at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting outside of the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on June 13, 2016.

Chicago mulls security changes to LGBT Pride events after Orlando massacre

May 22, 2019 at 10:00 p.m.

Chicago officials are evaluating security changes to LGBT Pride events this month in the wake of Sunday's mass shooting at a popular gay bar in Orlando, Fla. Office of Emergency...

Chicago police step up patrols in wake of Orlando nightclub attack

May 22, 2019 at 10:00 p.m.

Chicago ramped up police presence throughout the city and at LGBT events in the wake of a horrific mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., that left at...

Mayor, local LGBT leaders pledge support after deadly attack at Orlando nightclub

August 21, 2019 at 6:44 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and leaders of Chicago's LGBT community pledged support for victims of the Pulse nightclub attack as more appalling details emerged. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and law enforcement...

Western Illinois University prepares to cut degree programs

May 22, 2019 at 9:58 p.m.

Four degree programs at Western Illinois University may be eliminated this month following years of poor enrollment and low graduation rates. Administrators recommended that majors in African-American studies, philosophy, religious...

West Nile virus makes early entrance, infects Illinois child

August 21, 2019 at 6:39 p.m.

A child in west-central Illinois is the first person to contract West Nile virus this year, marking a much earlier appearance of the disease in humans than in previous seasons,...

Sister Ann Rubly, left, and Sister Marilyn Freking, who are retiring, are honored Sunday at a special Mass at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Bronzeville.

Nuns end decades of service at Bronzeville church

May 22, 2019 at 9:57 p.m.

Sister Marilyn Freking came to Corpus Christi Catholic Church purely by happenstance. One day she was handed a slip of paper telling her that she had been assigned to teach...

Protesters stand in front of the City Colleges of Chicago office June 2, 2016. City Colleges plans to consolidate early child care programs into one program at Truman College on the North Side.

Plan to move some City Colleges courses to North Side prompts outcry

May 22, 2019 at 9:56 p.m.

Union members, advocates and Chicago aldermen railed against a City Colleges of Chicago plan they say will eliminate educational degree programming for students in the South and West sides of...

A "safe room" consists of a bed in an empty room at the Crisis Stabilization Unit at Holy Cross Hospital in the Southwest Side Thursday, May 12, 2016, in Chicago.

Holy Cross Hospital’s mental health unit aims for alternative to ERs, jails

June 10, 2018 at 1:35 p.m.

Laverne cut her wrists. She was upset and depressed. She knew she needed help. Paramedics took her to Holy Cross Hospital on Chicago's Southwest Side. Inside the emergency room, Laverne...

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