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Northwestern and Penn State fans arrive at the new Ryan Field in Evanston prior to Northwestern’s inaugural game at the stadium on Oct. 2, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

What’s that constant beeping noise? Ryan Field neighbors sound off on alarm testing

By Claire Murphy

October 16, 2026 at 2:45 p.m.

Noise and alarm concerns have taken a front seat in the complaints issued to Ryan...

Hinsdale Township High School District 86 administrative center. (Pioneer Press)

Hinsdale High School District 86 seeks members for planning group

By Pioneer Press

October 16, 2026 at 12:35 p.m.

Hinsdale High School District 86 is inviting community members to serve on its Strategic Planning...

Students at Morgan Park Academy in a science class. (Morgan Park Academy)

Morgan Park Academy reduces tuition, celebrates ranking as top private school

By Elena Tittel

October 16, 2026 at 6:30 a.m.

Morgan Park Academy staff said they will reduce baseline tuition costs signifcantly for the next...

Proponents of affirmative action hold signs during a protest at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 1, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso/Getty-AFP)

Heidi Stevens: Banning DEI and race-based programs in schools chips away at the very mission of education

By Heidi Stevens

February 21, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

To be a sharper, deeper, more careful, more creative, more flexible thinker requires diversity —...

Peoples Gas instructor Stephen Jones, right, helps Chicago Military Academy student Denzel Adjei do a pipefitting simulation during a skilled trades fair at Hire360 on the Near South Side on Feb. 20, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

CPS skilled trades recruitment event sparks interest in career pathways for high school juniors, seniors

By Ikram Mohamed

February 21, 2025 at 4:25 p.m.

The event is a partnership with city agencies, City Colleges of Chicago, and labor and...

Dolly Parton performs during an event in Kansas City, Missouri, celebrating the expansion of her Imagination Library on Aug. 27, 2024. (Charlie Riedel/Associated Press)

House passes Indiana budget through 2027

By Alexandra Kukulka

February 20, 2025 at 4:43 p.m.

The Indiana House passed the biennial budget, which received praise from Republicans and criticism from...

Teachers Carrie Majchrowicz and Alyssa LePretre pause while helping Luke Carroll and other students in the ULTIMA program make and deliver coffee to staff at Amos Alonzo Stagg High School in Palos Hills. The Charlie Chargers Coffee Cart launched in Jan. with the help of a $1,000 grant from the District 230 Foundation and is organized by six ULTIMA teachers, a speech pathologist and vocational coordinator. (Janice Neumann/Daily Southtown)

ULTIMA students at Stagg High School serve up skills, smiles and a cup of joe

By Janice Neumann

February 20, 2025 at 2:07 p.m.

The Charlie Chargers Coffee Cart at Stagg High School in Palos Hills offers students with...

Eric Harwell was a mental health counselor in Prairie-Hills Elementary District 144 for more that 20 years. His attorney said he was fired Feb. 5. without being given a reason. (Eric V. Harwell)

Markham’s Prairie-Hills Junior High community seeks reinstatement of fired mental health counselor

By Olivia Stevens

February 19, 2025 at 4:14 p.m.

An attorney for fired Prairie-Hills Elementary District 144 mental health counselor Eric V. Harwell said...

People gather to protest against HB1041, a bill to ban transgender women and girls from participating in school sports that match their gender identity, during a rally at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, in this Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022 file photo. The Republican-dominated Indiana Legislature is poised on Tuesday. May 24, 2022, to override the GOP governor's veto of a bill banning transgender females from competing in girls school sports. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy File)

Indiana House passes ban on transgender women participating in women’s college sports

By Alexandra Kukulka

February 19, 2025 at 1:20 p.m.

The Indiana House passed a bill Tuesday banning transgender women from women’s sports at the...

Gov. JB Pritzker walks the floor before delivering his State of the State and budget address before the General Assembly at the state Capitol in Springfield, Feb. 19, 2025. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Gov. JB Pritzker proposes belt-tightening budget with no new taxes, invokes Nazism in bashing Trump

By Rick Pearson

February 20, 2025 at 6:23 a.m.

In his budget and State of the State Address, Gov. J.B. Pritzker invoked the rise...

Chicago Public Schools headquarters on May 28, 2024. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson escalates push for CPS to pick up pension payment, borrow more money

By Nell Salzman

February 19, 2025 at 6:29 p.m.

The pension obligation has been the subject of years of dispute between the city and...

President Donald Trump waves from his vehicle as he arrives at the Trump International Golf Club, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money

By Collin Binkley

February 18, 2025 at 4:57 p.m.

The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives...

The Chicago Public Schools January board meeting takes place at the CPS central office Jan. 30, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson names final Chicago school board member after weeks of delay

By Nell Salzman

February 19, 2025 at 6:29 a.m.

Johnson appointed Cydney Wallace, a mother of four who works for the Cook County court...