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The onetime folk hero and frontiersman was deemed a historically "egregious" figure in a Chicago Public Schools report.

Results of the Illinois Assessment of Readiness assessment in English and math for elementary and middle schools in the Chicago area.

Results of the SAT, an Illinois Board of Education-sponsored assessment given to high school juniors, for more than 200 schools in the Chica...

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The fact that Tylenol survived the Tylenol murders is viewed as a shining example of crisis management. But there’s more to the story.

Johnson is a progressive and longtime critic of the city’s political establishment who has stressed his credentials as a former teacher.

The move comes as the CTA faces ongoing complaints of unreliable service and concerns about safety.

Metra and U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi are calling for checks on a railroad merger that would bring more freight trains to the area

The boy, who had a swollen black eye, said the teacher struck him in the face, apparently in response to a verbal argument Cole was having w...

A Batavia High School employee is under investigation after a video circulated on social media reportedly showing the worker putting a stude...

Penn Entertainment, the casino’s parent company, will build a new, $360 million casino resort at the site that will include 950 gaming posit...

When former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is arraigned by telephone next week on new federal charges involving AT&T, someone will b...

Democratic justice from Chicago succeeds retiring Justice Anne Burke.

Urban Prep has been riddled with poor management and financial problems, Chicago Public Schools' officials allege.

The mayor’s office will also maintain a directory of local media that “exemplify Chicago’s interconnected communities."

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Lightfoot's choice of Ald. Jim Cappleman was seen as a snub of Ald. Sophia King, who is running against Lightfoot for mayor.

A 44-year-old man was arrested Monday and is being charged in the attempted sexual assault of a postal worker who was getting gas for her wo...

The Chicago mayor’s salary is $216,210, a figure that hasn’t changed since 2006.

More than five years after his indictment on extortion charges, former Teamsters union boss John Coli Sr. is set to finally learn his fate W...

As the nation reevaluates its gun laws, training for violent threats has become a grisly yet commonplace reality in K-12 schools.

After a lunchtime roundtable with Indiana Sen. Todd Young and Utah Rep. Burgess Owens, Republican congressional candidate Jennifer-Ruth Gree...

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CPS claims Urban Prep has suffered from mismanagement but school officials are fighting what they say is a threat to its existence.

Gerald Reed’s case took another pivot Tuesday when a special prosecutor retrying his double murder case asked a judge to set bond for him on...