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Chicago Public Schools headquarters on May 28, 2024. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson escalates push for CPS to pick up pension payment, borrow more money

February 19, 2025 at 6:29 p.m.

The pension obligation has been the subject of years of dispute between the city and school district over which body should be responsible for the payment.

The Chicago Public Schools January board meeting takes place at the CPS central office Jan. 30, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson names final Chicago school board member after weeks of delay

February 19, 2025 at 6:29 a.m.

Johnson appointed Cydney Wallace, a mother of four who works for the Cook County court clerk’s office.

Briseida de la Cruz Morales, center, with her children Edith and Christian Sanchez de la Cruz after eating lunch at Three Happiness restaurant in Chicago’s Chinatown on Feb. 13, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Despite fear and risk, Chicago advocates urge immigrants to keep court dates and ICE appointments

February 17, 2025 at 11:59 a.m.

Stories of ICE pick-ups and expedited removals have in some cases led people to skip their immigration hearings in Chicago, advocates say.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez speaks about the recommendations from a third-party fact-finder, aimed at helping them settle on a contract with the Chicago Teachers Union, during a news conference at CPS Headquarters on Feb. 6, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Embattled CPS CEO Pedro Martinez vying for job as Las Vegas schools’ chief

February 13, 2025 at 2:19 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez is on a short list of candidates vying to become the superintendent of Nevada’s Clark County Public Schools in Las Vegas.

Chicago Board of Education President Sean Harden at a school board meeting on Jan. 15, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Outside firm hired to advise school board, budget amendment meetings scheduled for March

February 13, 2025 at 2:03 p.m.

Hiring the outside financial firm means Chicago Public Schools is likely in need of solutions to pay the for a new teachers contract a $175 million pension payment for nonteacher...

Maria and Joaquin talk about their son, Erick, who was deported to Mexico years ago, while surrounded by some of his artwork at their home in Little Village on Jan. 28, 2025. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

A Chicagoan’s journey through incarceration, deportation and the fight for ‘A New Path’

February 10, 2025 at 9:22 a.m.

Lee Ragsdale advocated for the publication of a deportation guide for noncitizens navigating a reentry into the country they and family members once fled.

SEIU Local 73 President Dian Palmer speaks during a press conference at the union's office in Chicago on Oct. 10, 2019. (Raquel Zaldivar/baiduhai)

Illinois SEIU passes resolution declaring itself ‘under attack’ by CTU

February 7, 2025 at 4:26 p.m.

The union has condemned a contract proposal by the teachers union that SEIU said would take jobs from their union and give them to CTU.

Chicago Public Schools security video shows CPS officials talking with Secret Service agents and eventually denying them entry to Hamline Elementary School in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on Jan. 24, 2025. (Chicago Public Schools)

CPS security video shows Secret Service trying to enter Hamline Elementary School

February 6, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.

CPS security video shows Secret Service agents trying to enter Chicago's Hamline School, offering glimpse of an interaction that caused confusion and stoked fears.

People stand in Deering Meadow in April 2024 after Northwestern University officials announced an agreement with students and faculty protesting against Israel-Hamas war. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Northwestern University under investigation by Department of Education for ‘antisemitic harassment’

February 4, 2025 at 8:05 p.m.

Northwestern University and four other schools are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for what the federal agency is calling “widespread antisemitic harassment” after mass student protests that...

Some Chicago businesses close to protest immigration crackdown

February 4, 2025 at 11:29 a.m.

As immigrant communities entered a third week of fear and uncertainty in the shadow of immigration action, some business owners closed up shop as part of a national "Day Without...

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