Tent camp on the Northwest Side is at the center of a battle over homelessness
Gompers Park encampment residents say they would prefer to move to real housing but need assistance. But Mayor Brandon ...
Inside Mayor Brandon Johnson’s stunning fight for control of Chicago schools as CTU contract talks stall
The long-simmering standoff between City Hall and Chicago Public Schools leadership that just blew up in the public eye ...
Opinion | Chicago’s Nasty Schools Showdown
CEO Pedro Martinez over the teachers union contract negotiations. On Thursday the Chicago Board of Education met amid rumors ...
Mayor Johnson inks $100 million increase for Favorite Healthcare Staffing
Facing a nearly $1 billion budget deficit, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson side-stepped questions Thursday about a $100 million pay increase for Kansas-based company - Favorite Healthcare Staffing - ...
Chicago’s Nasty Schools Showdown
Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to fire the schools chief to please a union.
Crain's Chicago Business12h
As Johnson scrambles to close $1 billion budget gap, vote could get delayed to December
The delay would given the mayor's budget team more time to find politically feasible personnel cuts and revenue boosters to ...
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Teachers union-backed candidate says she would be independent on school board
BRIAN NADIG District 1 elected school board candidate Jennifer Custer is supported by the Chicago Teachers Union but said she ...
KELOLAND News13h
The State Fair of Texas opens with a new gun ban after courts reject challenge
The State Fair of Texas opened Friday under a new firearms ban, having withstood weeks of pressure from Republicans who had charged into a public rift with one of the state’s ...
The Bond Buyer14h
Chicago Board of Ed doesn't plan school closures
The Chicago Board of Education adopted a nonbinding resolution declaring a moratorium on school closures during a heated ...
Tri States Public Radio15h
State Week: Will the state be asked to help with Chicago's fiscal woes?
Chicago is eyeing a budget deficit that is expected to balloon. Mayor Brandon Johnson is being put to the test. He said he ...
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A Movement for ‘Treatment not Trauma’ Advances in Chicago
A deep dive into Chicago’s plan for transforming the city’s mental health and crisis-response services, which organizers have ...
The Union Democrat17h
As suicide deaths become more common among young kids in Illinois, one mom mourns her 10-year-old daughter
On her drive to work, Mayolita Gaines pulls up on her phone a playlist of music that’s dominated by one artist. Songs by ...