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Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez speaks at the eighth grade graduation ceremony for John A. Walsh Elementary School at Benito Juarez Community Academy on June 10, 2025. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Outgoing CPS chief Martinez optimistic for district’s future: ‘There is no limit to what our children can do’

June 16, 2025 at 7:10 p.m.

Outgoing Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez expressed optimism for the district’s future two days before his departure for a new education leadership role in Massachusetts.

Swansey Adams, shown here in an undated stereo card photo, was born into chattel slavery in Virginia in 1796 and eventually taken to Illinois, where his enslavers forced him to toil in the salt mines near downstate Shawneetown and, later, in the lead mines around Galena. Adams would gain his freedom and go on to sell water in Galena before his death in 1880. (Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society)

‘A movement, not just a moment’: Inside the arduous work of Illinois’ reparations efforts

August 10, 2024 at 8:12 a.m.

The search to better understand his roots took Paul Thomas Harper to his late grandmother’s attic in St. Paul, Minnesota. There, among the letters and photographs, he found clues that,...

Server Susan Bivins delivers an order of pancakes at 9:59 p.m. at the Golden Apple Grille & Breakfast House on June 22, 2024. Bivins has worked at the restaurant for 30 years. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

12 hours overnight at one of Chicago’s last 24/7 diners

October 9, 2024 at 10:22 a.m.

The Golden Apple Grille & Breakfast House in Lake View is a refuge for a mismatched cast of loners, drunken couples, night owls and shift workers.

Joseph "Troubles" Matos is wanted for his alleged involvement in the slaying of a National Guard member in Chicago on July 3, 2021. (FBI)

FBI announces reward connected to 2021 slaying of young National Guardsman

June 28, 2024 at 6:14 p.m.

The FBI's Chicago office announced a $10,000 reward Thursday for information leading to the arrest of Joseph "Troubles" Matos, an alleged gang member charged in the 2021 drive-by killing of...

Casey Ross, a tour guide, speaks to tour guests at the Mr. Beef restaurant during a “The Bear” themed food tour on June 21, 2024, in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/baiduhai)

Ahead of Season 3, ‘The Bear’ food tour serves fans a taste of the action: ‘you can practically taste the food when you watch’

June 26, 2024 at 6:06 a.m.

A traditional Chicago sandwich shop may seem like an unconventional excursion. But since “The Bear” debuted, tourists have flocked in droves to Mr. Beef, which opened in River North in...

Four suburban men charged with aggravated battery in Sunday Mount Greenwood attack

June 25, 2024 at 4:40 p.m.

Ald. Matt O'Shea, 19th Ward, said the altercation happened after the four men were asked to leave Barraco's Ristorante.

Howard Ray's father, Howard Ray Sr., left, and his wife, Mary, get a signature from Laighton Scott, of Maywood, on June 19, 2024, in Hillside on a petition to put a reparations referendum on the ballot. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

On Juneteenth, one man’s unwavering quest for reparations

June 19, 2024 at 6:28 p.m.

Howard Ray is petitioning to end all property taxes for Chicagoans descended from enslaved Africans. Ahead looms an Aug. 5 deadline to collect 100,000 signatures, which would place the referendum...

Joel Gratcyk plays with his sons Wesley, 11, left, and Theodore, 7, and their new dog, Falkor, in their driveway in Arlington Heights on June 12, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

New fathers should be screened for postpartum depression too, study says

June 17, 2024 at 3:30 p.m.

An expanding volume of recent research has indicated that fathers, along with their female partners, can develop postpartum depression.

A woman and child walk past the scene of an apartment fire that injured at least five people, one fatally, in the 2400 block of East 78th Street Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

1 dead, 4 hurt after South Shore apartment fire

June 15, 2024 at 2:31 p.m.

One person was killed and four were hurt, including two children, after a fire tore through a home in South Shore early Saturday. The blaze broke out at around 3...

John Lill, a professor of biology at George Washington University, and Martha Weiss, a Georgetown University environmental studies professor, mark cicada holes in Middlefork Savanna Forest Preserve on June 13, 2024, in Lake Forest. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

As cicadas descend upon Illinois, scientists seek to understand cascading food web impacts

June 15, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

In a wooded clearing in Lake Forest, a team of researchers crouched close to the grass. They watched as hundreds of ants crawled over seeds, sipped sugar water and indulged...

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