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Barrington High School senior Samantha Schmitz, 18.

Meet some of the Illinois students behind Wednesday’s school walkouts for gun reform

May 23, 2019 at 12:36 a.m.

High school students across Illinois will join a national walkout at 10 a.m. Wednesday to mark the one month anniversary of the fatal school shooting in Parkland, Fla. In the...

In Chicago communities ravaged by gun violence, students hope Parkland movement will finally bring change

August 22, 2019 at 3:04 a.m.

D’Angelo McDade understands the urgent desire to end gun violence, the kind of change that students in Parkland, Fla., are fighting for after the fatal mass shooting at their high...

Students tie ribbons on trees after the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools walkout on the Midway Plaisance in Hyde Park in Chicago on March 2, 2018.

Ahead of walkouts over gun issues, students and schools wonder: Can kids be punished for protesting?

May 23, 2019 at 12:34 a.m.

The day after the fatal school shooting in Parkland, Fla., Anya Neuberger and her classmates at Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago wanted to show their support for...

An instructor during an Illinois conceal carry license class in 2015. President Donald Trump has called for increased security in schools following the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, including potentially arming some teachers with guns.

Illinois educators call Trump’s proposal to arm teachers ‘insanity’???????

May 31, 2019 at 4:07 p.m.

Illinois teachers widely disagreed with the idea of arming educators with guns to prevent future school shootings, a strategy that President Donald Trump promoted in a series of tweets Thursday....

Morgan Miraglia and fellow Schaumburg High School students participate in a walkout to protest gun violence outside the high school Feb. 21, 2018.

Chicago-area high school students chanting ‘save our kids’ stage walkouts to demand action on gun violence

May 31, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

Hundreds of high school students across the Chicago area walked out of school Wednesday, joining a national movement of young people mobilizing in a passionate response to the Feb. 14...

Mike Stock, center, Dean of Students at Naperville Central High School, said school officials have referred 20 students for disciplinary action for e-cigarette use this year, compared with only one incident each year for the previous three school years.

More teens sneaking vaping devices that look like flash drives, markers into suburban high schools

August 22, 2019 at 2:44 a.m.

Smoking in the bathroom has returned with a vengeance and a twist at some Chicago-area high schools, where administrators worry that new ways to get a nicotine fix are making...

Man found in burning car in Mount Prospect was fatally shot, officials say

May 31, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

A man whose body was found in a burning car early Friday in Mount Prospect was shot to death in a homicide, police said. An autopsy Saturday determined Vladimir Esquivel,...

Officers salute outside the Near North District station Feb. 13, 2020, during a memorial for Cmdr. Paul Bauer, who was killed in 2018.

Slain Cmdr. Paul Bauer’s family and friends remember him as steady force who ‘knew the right things to do’

May 23, 2019 at 12:31 a.m.

On Sunday, Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer and his family took their usual seats in the front pew at a West Loop chapel, where police officers gather twice a month...

West Chicago High School teachers, board of education avoid strike with tentative contract agreement

May 31, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

High school teachers in West Chicago avoided a strike when a tentative contract agreement was reached with school officials late Thursday. “We’re very pleased that we were able to get...

West Chicago High School teachers could strike as soon as Friday

May 31, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

Pending one last bargaining session, high school teachers in West Chicago could go on strike Friday, according to union officials. The West Chicago High School Teachers Association will meet Thursday...

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