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The southwest corner of El Centro, a Northeastern Illinois University campus building in the 3300 block of N. Avondale Ave.

Northeastern Illinois University announces furlough days

May 22, 2019 at 9:30 p.m.

Hundreds of full-time professional and administrative staff members at Northeastern Illinois University will be required to take furlough days starting this month, school officials announced Thursday. Administrators and nonunion employees...

The main quadrangle on the campus of the University of Chicago on Sept. 30, 2015.

University of Chicago gets $35 million gift for new urban institute

June 11, 2018 at 6:03 a.m.

The University of Chicago will establish a new think tank devoted to researching urban issues, thanks to a $35 million gift by the head of a major investment research firm....

President Ronald Reagan reads a memorial statement for slain Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, upon the arrival at the White House of former presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in 1981. From left are: Ford, Nixon, first lady Nancy Reagan, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, Reagan and Carter.

Chicago helped shape a future first lady

June 22, 2019 at 3:31 p.m.

Nancy Reagan is best remembered for her time in Washington, D.C., and California, but a big part of her youth was spent in Chicago. And foreshadowing a role later in...

Lady Gaga, Al Roker jump in the lake — for charity

May 22, 2019 at 9:29 p.m.

For the second year in a row, Lady Gaga took a dip into frigid Lake Michigan as part of the annual Chicago Polar Plunge on Sunday morning at North Avenue...

Students at Northwestern University make their way to classes March 3, 2016, with the Evanston campus' University Hall in the background

Northwestern University takes aim at student loan debt

May 22, 2019 at 9:28 p.m.

Northwestern University students who qualify for financial aid no longer will have to borrow to pay for their education, part of a plan announced Thursday to make the school more...

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, talks to the media before going in to cast his vote in the Texas primary March 1, 2016, in Houston.

Cruz can remain on Illinois ballot, judge rules

May 22, 2019 at 9:27 p.m.

A Cook County judge on Tuesday threw out a petition seeking to knock Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz off the Illinois ballot because the Texas senator wasn't born in the...

Chicago Teachers Union members and others rally Feb. 4, 2016, with a march through the Loop.

Chicago Public Schools lays off 62 employees, including 17 teachers

May 22, 2019 at 9:27 p.m.

The layoffs announced Monday by Chicago Public Schools — 62 workers, 17 of them teachers — were far milder than feared earlier in the school year, but the district's plan...

President Barack Obama speaks about race relations while flanked by Rep. John Lewis, senior advisor Valerie Jarrett and Rev. Al Sharpton, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on February 18, 2016.

Chicago Black Lives Matter activist declines White House invitation

February 10, 2020 at 1:17 p.m.

A Chicago activist turned down an invitation to meet with President Barack Obama on Thursday prior to the annual White House Black History Month reception. Aislinn Pulley, who co-founded Black...

Chicago police Officer Jose Alvarez, center, and his wife, Dora, leave a Feb. 16, 2016, hearing at the Chicago Police Board. The Police Department is seeking to fire Jose Alvarez for allegedly hitting his wife in a 2012 off-duty incident.

Wife denies her cop husband hit her as Chicago police try to fire officer

May 22, 2019 at 9:23 p.m.

The Chicago Police Department is seeking to fire a veteran officer for allegedly hitting his wife several times while off-duty in 2012, but his wife testified Tuesday at a police...

A Health Ministry worker fumigates for the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus at the Oriental Market in Managua, Nicaragua. Worries about the rapid spread of Zika through the hemisphere has prompted officials several Latin American countries to suggest women stop getting pregnant until the crisis has passed.

Illinois at low risk for Zika virus transmission; experts advise vigilance

August 19, 2019 at 3:24 a.m.

As the Zika virus rages throughout the Americas, global medical authorities are scrambling to quell an outbreak that has taken the world by surprise. Illinois experts believe the threat to...

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