Hannah Leone

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, left, announces former Chicago clerk and state Sen. Miguel del Valle, right, as her choice for Chicago Public Schools board president at Hampton Fine & Performing Arts School on June 3, 2019.

As mayor taps Miguel del Valle to lead Chicago school board, she vows collaboration, ‘not a dictatorship’

June 3, 2019 at 7:21 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot won praise from allies and some city officials for the new school board picks she announced Monday — but she drew criticism from the Chicago Teachers Union...

Walter Payton College Prep's principal said he thought students made their signals innocently but that the "OK" hand sign "is in the process of being usurped by hate groups."

Another Chicago-area high school will reprint yearbooks because of ‘OK’ sign photo controversy

May 30, 2019 at 12:15 p.m.

The "circle game" has turned into an end-of-year headache for Chicago's Walter Payton College Prep, which is paying more than $22,000 to reprint yearbooks without photographs of students making a...

Departing Chicago Board of Education President Frank Clark, who has been in the post since 2015, said he was "very, very proud of the work" of the board that is being disbanded.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot will replace entire Chicago school board

May 23, 2019 at 6:36 p.m.

Newly inaugurated Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who endorsed an elected school board on the campaign trail, announced Wednesday she will overhaul the seven-member Board of Education. The announcement came less...

Melanie Velez poses for a portrait with her two children Alejandro Ortiz, 10, and Adelina Diaz, 3, outside their school, McCutcheon Elementary, in Chicago on May 16, 2019. Because the school does not have a gym, the children walk to the nearby Boys and Girls Club.

Uptown mansion owners sue to stop nearby public school from adding gym: ‘There is definitely a race and class issue here’

May 20, 2019 at 9:52 p.m.

At the west end of Castlewood Terrace, a string of brightly dressed children follows a woman along the sidewalk, from the Boys and Girls Club to McCutcheon Elementary School. They...

Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey at City Hall in January.

Chicago Teachers Union president wins re-election, issues warning to new mayor

May 18, 2019 at 2:15 p.m.

The president of the Chicago Teachers Union easily won re-election after ballots were counted late Friday and immediately issued a warning to the incoming mayor, Lori Lightfoot, who was not...

Tania Cordova at the office of the Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois on May 7, 2019, in Chicago. Cordova, a transgender woman, is a member of the coalition.

Transgender Chicagoans say police encounters can be dehumanizing. A new report says CPD is failing them.

May 23, 2019 at 2:03 a.m.

In her decade advocating for transgender people charged with crimes in Chicago, attorney Lark Mulligan says she has learned the patterns: "gender checks" that can feel like sexual assault. Name-calling....

Montra Tuffour stands in front of her aunt Sylvia Brice's former townhouse on April 23, 2019, in Chicago. On Dec. 31, 2016, Douglas Askew killed Sylvia Brice and stabbed Tuffour nearly to death.

Two women died trying to protect themselves from their abusive exes. Their families wonder why the system didn’t protect them.

June 14, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

Sylvia Brice and Mimi Hardin both died on the day they tried, a final time, to protect themselves from an abusive ex. Brice was stabbed as she packed up to...

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