Zareen Syed

People walk on the campus at Northwestern University on July 11, 2023, in Evanston. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Amid controversy, Cook County prosecutors drop charges against students accused of distributing fake Daily Northwestern page

February 13, 2024 at 1:55 p.m.

Prosecutors Wednesday dropped charges against two Northwestern students amid controversy over the decision to pursue a criminal case against them for allegedly circulating a fake page of the student newspaper

A person walks through campus at Northwestern University on July 10, 2023, in Evanston. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Northwestern roiled by criminal charges against two students who made parody copies of student paper

February 7, 2024 at 3:31 p.m.

Controversy erupts around Black Northwestern Students charged with publishing fake newspaper

CPS high school students sit down on La Salle Street in front of the City Hall to call for a cease-fire in Israel-Hamas War on Jan. 30, 2024.

Students walk out at several CPS schools to demand City Council support cease-fire in Gaza

February 1, 2024 at 4:49 p.m.

At about a dozen high schools across Chicago Tuesday, students are holding walkouts to demand aldermen vote in favor of a cease-fire resolution.

Janelle Chaix shares breakfast time with sons Gavin, 10, left, and Wesley, 7, before heading to work on Jan. 19, 2024, in Crystal Lake. Chaix is a paraprofessional at South Elementary School, where her children are enrolled.

Support staff at Crystal Lake D47 file unfair labor practice charge after district hires staffing firm

February 7, 2024 at 5:10 p.m.

Contract workers from a staffing firm make more than four times what some permanent paraprofessionals make, the union representing paraprofessionals across 12 schools argues.

Muslim student in hijab attacked at Glendale Heights middle school, cellphone video shows

January 31, 2024 at 12:35 p.m.

Police and the school district are investigating the attack at Glenside Middle School, where students filmed the abuse but did not intervene.

Riverside Brookfield High School District 208 Superintendent Kevin Skinkis takes part in a school board meeting on Jan. 23, 2024.

After suburban pushback, Cook County leaders propose exempting parks, school districts from paid leave requirements

January 26, 2024 at 8:39 a.m.

Responding to a robust lobbying effort, Cook County leaders are moving to exempt thousands of suburban park and school district employees from a new Cook County ordinance that strengthened paid...

A photo sent to Yasmeen Elagha by her cousin, Borak Alagha, shows how it looks next to the structure where Borak Alagha's family is sheltering.

Northwestern law student sues State Department seeking family’s safe return from Gaza: ‘My pleas are falling on deaf ears.’

January 9, 2024 at 12:11 p.m.

In a past life, Yasmeen Elagha's visits to Khan Yunis, the largest city in southern Gaza, were marked by platters of knafah gazawiya, a nutty dessert made with semolina soaked...

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