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A view of the corner of 24th and State streets, the former site of the Ickes Homes public housing complex, in Chicago on Wednesday. It's been a location of interest for a potential new high school.

Chicago Public Schools CEO pulls proposal for new Near South Side high school hours before budget vote

June 22, 2022 at 6:41 p.m.

Hours before the Chicago Board of Education was poised to vote Wednesday on the $9.4 billion budget for the coming school year, Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez pulled a...

Former South Side elementary school clerk charged as CPS fraud case expands

June 14, 2022 at 6:04 p.m.

A former clerk for a South Side public elementary school has been indicted in an expanding federal fraud case involving an alleged scheme to falsify orders for school supplies to...

Signs in support of the Chicago Teachers Union are handed out before a caravan from Union Park to Chicago's City Hall Jan. 5, 2022. Chicago Public Schools classes were canceled Wednesday after a Tuesday night CTU vote in favor of refusing in-person work until further COVID-19 safety measures are implemented.

CPS ends school year with 22,000 student COVID-19 cases; CTU says safety measures should remain in the fall

June 14, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

About one in every dozen Chicago Public Schools students contracted COVID-19 this school year, the district's first year of full-time, in-person learning since the pandemic began. With CPS closing out...

Nora Wiltse outside Coonley Elementary School on May 31, 2022.

Longtime school librarian loses job despite public campaign: ‘I’m really hoping that this isn’t the end of CPS for me’

June 12, 2022 at 4:11 p.m.

Despite a campaign to save her job, Coonley Elementary librarian Nora Wiltse received a pink slip Friday after 14 years at the North Center school. Local School Council members say...

Chase Elementary School teacher for deaf and hard of hearing students Colleen McKenna makes a video recording reading a book for her students in 2020.

Amid public outcry, CPS says it is not closing or phasing out any deaf education programs

June 9, 2022 at 4:00 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools said there were some very preliminary discussions earlier this spring about possibly closing the deaf and hard of hearing programming at Chase Elementary School, but now there...

CPS CEO Pedro Martinez at Mount Greenwood Elementary School in March.

Chicago Public Schools plans to spend nearly $10 billion next school year

June 8, 2022 at 4:59 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools on Tuesday released its proposed $9.5 billion budget for the next school year, a spending plan that's $200 million more than this year even though the district...

Senior Quintin Scott welds during class at Dunbar Vocational Career Academy in Chicago on June 3, 2022.

CPS grad forgoing scholarship money to continue training as a welder: ‘College isn’t for everyone’

June 6, 2022 at 9:22 a.m.

Quintin Scott graduated Sunday from Chicago's Crane Medical Prep High School with a head start to becoming a professional welder and a direct pipeline to Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The two...

Chicago police officers work the scene where an officer was shot and wounded in the 6900 block of South Sangamon Street on June 5, 2022, in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.

Police officer shot in Englewood is the second cop shot in the neighborhood in less than a week

June 5, 2022 at 5:59 p.m.

A Chicago police officer was shot and seriously wounded Sunday afternoon during a brief gunbattle in the Englewood neighborhood on the city's South Side. The unidentified male officer and a...

Coonley Elementary librarian Nora Wiltse outside of the North Center neighborhood school Tuesday. Now in her 19th year with CPS, she anticipates that she'll lose her job because of budget cuts.

CPS librarian who spoke out against library cuts said she expects to lose her job

June 1, 2022 at 6:08 a.m.

Just two years ago, the American Library Association honored Chicago Public Schools librarian Nora Wiltse with an award for her "courageous efforts" to raise awareness about the effects of district...

Body pulled from Lake Michigan in Wilmette identified as missing UIC graduate student

May 30, 2022 at 3:23 p.m.

A body recovered from Lake Michigan in Wilmette was identified Saturday as a man who had been missing since late last month in Chicago, officials said. Daniel Sotelo, 26, a...

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