Tess Kenny is a general assignment reporter for the Tribune. A California native, she graduated from UC Santa Barbara and previously reported for the Monterey Herald and Naperville Sun.
In a cost-cutting move to plug a $734 million shortfall, Chicago Public Schools officials on Friday said they laid off dozens of workers in its central office and citywide staff.
A fourth person has died after a suspicious fire erupted at an apartment building in the Austin neighborhood Thursday morning, the Chicago Fire Department announced Friday.
A boy, 15, was in fair condition after he was shot in the left knee Wednesday night in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the city’s South Side, police said.
Police have opened a homicide investigation after a 72-year-old man was found dead Wednesday afternoon inside a bathtub in the Avalon Park neighborhood on the city's South Side, authorities said.