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Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool discusses the district's proposed budget on Aug. 8, 2016.

CPS proposes $5.4 billion budget, teacher pact similar to earlier submission

May 22, 2019 at 10:18 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools on Monday unveiled a $5.4 billion operating budget proposal that assumes the Chicago Teachers Union will accept a contract similar to one a CTU bargaining team soundly...

Jim Furlong, 69, tears up talking about his parents' support during his recovery after losing his leg in Vietnam in 1969. Furlong stepped on a grenade to protect other troops. He joined several area Purple Heart recipients Sunday to record their military service memories for the Veterans History Project.

Purple Heart recipients tell of sacrifice: ‘They shed blood for their country’

June 11, 2018 at 9:15 p.m.

Patrick Furlong's 16th birthday wish was simple: to know how his dad lost his leg in the Vietnam War. At 21, Jim Furlong had seen an enemy soldier toss a...

Lawyers of jailhouse beating victim question why charges so long in coming

May 22, 2019 at 10:16 p.m.

Lawyers for an alleged victim of a jailhouse attack captured on video criticized Monday how it took 21/2 years before a Cook County correctional officer was charged, and alleged that...

Greenhouse manager Ashley Luciani tends to seedlings July 12, 2016, at Metropolitan Farms in Chicago.

Next wave of ecopreneurs hopes to find key to making aquaponics profitable

May 22, 2019 at 10:11 p.m.

In Chicago, where hungry mouths outnumber plots of soil, urban agriculture has boomed in recent years and extends across more than 230 community gardens and 60 urban farms. Still, not...

An aerial view shows the Morgan Shoal and part of a sunken vessel Silver Spray near Hyde Park on July 21, 2016.

Just off Chicago in Lake Michigan sits an oasis of diversity — Morgan Shoal

May 22, 2019 at 10:05 p.m.

For the most part, a sludge of sand and mud cradles Lake Michigan — that is, except for Morgan Shoal.

Hospital prepping for annual influx of drunken teenagers from Lollapalooza

May 22, 2019 at 10:12 p.m.

Gabbi Seo was in a neck brace and flopping around on a stretcher — and she had no idea what she was doing there. As a nurse stroked her forehead...

Within a single breeding season, water that collects inside one discarded tire can produce more than 10,000 adult mosquitoes, said Illinois Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman Kim Biggs.

Tire removal effort to target breeding spots of disease-carrying mosquitoes

May 22, 2019 at 10:12 p.m.

If you really want to escape skeeters, bug spray is just the first step. Refreshing birdbaths and dumping out the water sitting in flowerpots, tin cans and kiddie pools also...

No one hurt when window shatters on 53rd floor of Loop high-rise

May 22, 2019 at 10:08 p.m.

No one was injured when a window shattered on the 53rd floor of an office tower in the Loop Thursday morning, officials said.Firefighters were called to the Three First National...

Chicago's Independence Day fireworks display is viewed by people along the lakefront at the Adler Planetarium on July 3, 2009.

Gray skies won’t hide Fourth of July fireworks

May 22, 2019 at 10:07 p.m.

Gloomy skies on Monday chilled the usual Fourth of July heat, but they won't mask the night's fireworks. "In terms of cloud cover, there's definitely a good chance for it...

Larry Schlabach, left, talks to Merle Miller, neighborhood handyman, after applying a few decals on a fireball cannon named Vesuvius.

Fireworks spectacle goes volcanic in Illinois’ Amish country

May 22, 2019 at 10:06 p.m.

If you have a good spot, you don't just witness the town of Arthur's fiery Fourth of July display. You also feel its heat on your skin. That's what people...

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