Lisa Black

Speaking to reporters before he rang the bell at Clemente High School this morning, CPS chief Jean-Claude Brizard said school officials are making "steady progress" in contract talks with teachers...

With hundreds of thousands of Chicago Public Schools students returning to class Tuesday, the teachers union and school district officials will head back to the negotiating table to try to...

Parents desperate for an alternative to the woefully deficient North Chicago public school system recently packed an open house for a new charter school, which opens Tuesday as part of...

Peering intently at the tiny white smudge in their baby's brain scan, Sue and Ben Erickson could see that the image did not reveal the miracle they had prayed for....

Gabriella Cooperman's lemonade stand has grown every year, thanks in part to her mother's chocolate chip and toffee cookie recipe. But this summer the 12-year-old has exceeded almost everyone's expectations....

At college registration this summer, the room went silent when a dad asked the department dean a question that lurked in the back of all our minds: What if our...

Federal authorities have authorized the development of a national wildlife refuge on 11,200 acres that straddle the Illinois-Wisconsin border — a project conservationists have sought for years. About 85 percent...