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Chicago Board of Education board member Olga Bautista, left, and President Sean B. Harden speak with reporters outside the Chicago Teachers Union Center after a teachers contract negotiation meeting on Dec. 23, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Who’s the boss? Chicago School Board members attend teachers contract negotiations

December 24, 2024 at 3:42 p.m.

Chicago school board members attended ongoing negotiations Monday with the Chicago Teachers Union for the first time in 12 years.

Greta Kauffman, owner of Chicago Dog Runner, with Dexter, from left, Zooey and Sadie in West Town on Dec. 10, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Goodbye and good luck to a good boy: As Dexter the dog moves away, his human pals reflect on puppy friendships

December 21, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

We take it for granted, but Dexter is a real part of our lives, Gregory Royal Pratt writes of his dog's best friend.

The tension between Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez and Mayor Brandon Johnson continues to mount as a leaked memo reportedly shows Johnson wanted Martinez out by the end of
September. Martinez is seen here at a Special Olympics event on Dec. 19, 2024, at Luther Burbank Elementary School on the Northwest Side. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson adviser told CPS board he wanted CEO Pedro Martinez out by late September

December 19, 2024 at 6:19 p.m.

A leaked City Hall memo shows Mayor Johnson wanted Chicago Public Schools Chief Pedro Martinez out in September.

Carol Pope, a retired prosecutor and judge, resigned as inspector general for the Illinois General Assembly after lawmakers rejected her calls for more autonomy and instead placed new restrictions on her office. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Paper tigers: Intentionally weak government oversight gives Illinois public officials cover for corruption

December 15, 2024 at 8:25 a.m.

A key factor in Illinois’ pervasive political corruption is weak oversight that prevents meaningful accountability for elected officials.

Mayoral adviser Jason Lee attends as the Chicago Bears announce their plans to build a new domed lakefront stadium on April 24, 2024, at Soldier Field. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s senior adviser voted in Texas in November 2024 election

December 9, 2024 at 4:28 p.m.

Records obtained by the Tribune show Jason Lee cast his ballot in the November 2024 presidential election in person on Election Day in Houston.

Students walk the hallways on Nov. 8, 2023, at Bronzeville Classical School. The Chicago Teachers Union has proposed contract language to CPS that Service Employees International Union 73, the union that represents special education classroom assistants in Chicago Public Schools, fears would allow classroom assistants, who are represented by CTU, to take over some of the special education classroom aides' jobs. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

SEIU threatens lawsuit over CTU contract negotiations with CPS

December 4, 2024 at 6:24 a.m.

SEIU 73 is threatening to sue CPS over a CTU proposal that it says would effectively take jobs from SEIU and give them to CTU.

Then-mayoral aide Ronnie Reese, left, watches as Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson greets people at MacArthur’s Restaurant in Chicago's Austin neighborhood on April 23, 2023. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson says he doesn’t tolerate behavior that got his ex-spokesman terminated but offers little else

November 27, 2024 at 7:56 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson said his administration does not tolerate the behavior that got his spokesman, Ronnie Reese, terminated but offers no other details.

Mayor Brandon Johnson, left, walks with then-aide Ronnie Reese on May 25, 2023, at 63rd Street Beach to discuss safety planning for Memorial Day weekend. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ex-press director faced sexual harassment, misogyny, racism complaints before firing

November 26, 2024 at 4:43 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s former communications director was accused of sexual harassment, misogyny, racism and other abusive behavior before he was fired.

Former Ald. Wallace Davis Jr., standing this year outside his shuttered East Garfield Park restaurant, said of Chicago aldermen: "They get into a position where they feel, ‘Hey, I can do what I want. I don’t have to give an account." (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Chicago never ready for reform: Code of silence, aldermanic prerogative fuel dozens of corruption convictions

September 8, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

In the half-century since Mayor Richard J. Daley presided over Chicago’s notorious Democratic machine at the height of its power, nearly 40 aldermen from across the city have ended up...

Kathy Byrne, daughter of former Mayor Jane Byrne, at Jane Byrne Park near the historic Water Tower in Chicago on Aug. 2, 2023. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Kathy Byrne, trial attorney and daughter of city’s first female mayor, dies at 66

August 12, 2024 at 2:04 p.m.

Kathy Byrne, the daughter of former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne and an influential trial attorney in Chicago has died.

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