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Chicago school board president candidates Jessica Biggs, from left, Hilario Dominguez and Victor Henderson participate in a forum at the Copernicus Center in Chicago on Sept. 29, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

More than $12.8 million flows in Chicago school board races

By Kate Armanini

October 17, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Millions of dollars are flowing into the races for Chicago’s first fully elected school board,...

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...

Gloria Marquez picks up her daughter Natalie, 9, after school from Hamline School in the Back of the Yards neighborhood where reports of ICE agents caused fear in the community, Jan. 27, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

What happened at Hamline Elementary on Friday? Mistaken ICE report in Chicago is still sparking fear.

By Nell Salzman

January 30, 2025 at 5:51 p.m.

Many questions remain about what happened at Hamline Elementary when Chicago Public Schools mistook Secret...

Timothy Williams, right, sit with his mentee, Joshua, after being brought together as part of a joint effort between NabrU and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago in Dolton and other south suburbs. (Timothy Williams)

Big Brothers Big Sisters, NabrU team up to link mentors to youth in Dolton

By Janice Neumann

January 27, 2025 at 1:46 p.m.

NabrU teamed up with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago for programs in Dolton...

Then-Chicago Board of Education member Rafael Yáñez during a board meeting on Dec. 12, 2024. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Johnson-appointed CPS board member asked CTU official about contract negotiations

By Nell Salzman

January 27, 2025 at 5:23 p.m.

A Chicago Public Schools board member appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson asked the teachers union...

Audelia Alvarez Vasquez, 56, picks up her grandchildren, Yulisa Martinez, 5, left, and Antonio Martinez, 9, as they head home from Columbia Explorers Academy in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood at the end of the school day, Jan. 23, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

‘People are scared’: Fear permeates every aspect of life in Chicago, under threat of mass immigration deportations

By Nell Salzman

January 26, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Although no widespread immigration raids were reported here this week, the possibility — and reports...

Students pass the University of Illinois Alma Mater statue in Urbana-Champaign on April 11, 2023. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

ACLU warns University of Illinois to respect free speech after clamping down on climate change and Palestinian groups

By Zareen Syed

January 25, 2025 at 10:21 a.m.

The group warned administrators that changes to speech and protest policies and "overzealous discipline" of...

Chicago Public Schools Chief Education Officer Bogdana Chkoumbova, right, walks out of Hamline Elementary School on Jan. 24, 2025, to talk to reporters. CPS announced they blocked federal immigration officers from going into the school earlier in the day, but later found it was Secret Service agents investigating a threat. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

Reported ICE visit to Chicago school was actually Secret Service, officials say

By Rebecca Johnson

January 25, 2025 at 7:56 a.m.

Chicago Public Schools prevented federal officers from from going into an elementary school on Chicago’s...

“As leaders of public schools, we have both a legal and moral obligation to protect our students’ rights within our buildings,” State Superintendent of Education Tony Sanders, seen here in 2023, said in a press release Thursday. Sanders' comments came after the Trump administration announced on Tuesday that officers enforcing federal immigration laws could now make arrests at sensitive locations such as schools. (Brian Cassella / baiduhai)

Aurora area schools prepare for possible immigration arrests as state issues guidance on how schools should respond

By Molly Morrow

January 27, 2025 at 1:52 p.m.

After the Trump administration said schools and churches were not off-limits for immigration arrests, Aurora...

Meagan Sims, of Richton Park, who is working toward her doctorate in education degree at Governor State University, has used her childhood experience in kinship care programs to inspire her studies and work in child welfare. (Janice Neumann/Daily Southtown)

‘Mama Meagan’ uses childhood experiences with DCFS to help youth in need

By Janice Neumann

January 24, 2025 at 9:47 a.m.

Richton Park resident Meagan Sims is working on her doctorate degree at Governor State University...

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates listens to speakers answering reporters' questions during a news conference on Jan. 22, 2025. The CTU and Chicago Public Schools have brought in an arbitrator to try to help resolve the contract dispute. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

CPS and CTU start ‘fact-finding’ in an attempt to settle monthslong contract negotiations

By Ikram Mohamed

January 23, 2025 at 6:41 p.m.

Since being established in state law in 2010, the fact-finding process has been used three...

Naperville District 203 School Board member Melissa Kelley Black. (Michelle Mullins/Naperville Sun)

Censured Naperville D203 board member called out for abdicating responsibility on monthly bill review

By Michelle Mullins

January 23, 2025 at 12:52 p.m.

A routine proposal to pay Naperville School District 203’s monthly bills and claims hit a...