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Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett, shown at a Chicago Board of Education meeting May 28, 2014, worked for the SUPES Academy before being hired at CPS.

Feds investigating CPS chief, $20.5 million contract to her former employer

August 18, 2019 at 7:14 p.m.

Federal authorities are investigating Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and a $20.5 million contract the district awarded on a no-bid basis to a training academy that formerly employed her,...

Donna Peek holds a photograph of herself, from left, her mother Jacklyn Klosa and her sister Melissa, which Peek found amid the debris at her mother's house in Fairdale on April 11, 2015. A tornado caused major damage to most of the town April 9, killing two people, including Jacklyn Klosa.

Fairdale tornado draws help from neighbors, strangers

August 18, 2019 at 7:12 p.m.

When they heard about the tornado, they got in their cars and drove toward the devastation, not knowing who or how they might help. Some packed their cars with pallets...

Women killed in tornado were friends who lived on same block

June 2, 2020 at 1:33 a.m.

Geraldine Schultz and Jacklyn Klosa were close neighbors. They lived just a house apart in a small farming town of just 150 people in DeKalb County. Thursday evening, the two...

Daisy Barraza takes a selfie with mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia outside the John Hay Community Academy in Chicago on March 27, 2015, after he received the endorsement of the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association.

Emanuel, Garcia campaign throughout Chicago on Easter weekend

May 15, 2019 at 2:38 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia marked a frenetic final weekend of campaigning by making their cases to voters everywhere from Sunday church services and Easter egg hunts...

Emanuel, Garcia campaign across Chicago in final weekend before election

May 15, 2019 at 2:38 p.m.

During the final weekend of campaigning, Mayor Rahm Emanuel went on the attack Saturday against Jesus "Chuy" Garcia for comments the challenger has made about waiting until after the election...

Garcia presses to turn negatives into positives against Rahm Emanuel

May 15, 2019 at 2:37 p.m.

Shirley Simmons had finished lunch on a recent Friday afternoon when mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia knocked on her door in the Altgeld Gardens public housing complex to ask about...

Emanuel, Garcia work to close the deal

May 22, 2019 at 7:40 p.m.

A re-election-seeking Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday tried to position himself as a better leader to instill confidence in the business sector as he and challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia campaign...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, left, and Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, right, cast their votes early April 2, 2015. Emanuel voted at the Board of Election Commissioners. Garcia voted at Piotrowski Park.

Garcia rips Emanuel on borrowing for preschool

May 22, 2019 at 7:39 p.m.

Challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia said Thursday that an expanded pre-kindergarten program touted by Mayor Rahm Emanuel hasn't met the needs of working parents and criticized the potential for large financial...

Phil Ponce chats with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Jesus "Chuy" Garcia before the start of a televised debate.

Garcia winning Latino vote, but Emanuel has hold on sizable portion

May 15, 2019 at 2:37 p.m.

Radio host Vicente Serrano spared no emotion as he took to the stage in the historic Logan Square Auditorium last month to fire up a Latino unity rally where mayoral...

Chicago police investigate the scene of a fatal shooting in the 200 block of South Lotus Avenue in Chicago on Feb 9, 2015.

Garcia hits Emanuel on homicide increase

May 15, 2019 at 2:37 p.m.

Mayoral challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia on Wednesday blasted Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Department brass over new crime statistics that show the number of homicides and shootings up over...

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