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A new University of Illinois Chicago study finds that Chicago schools remain sharply divided, with policy decisions and ...

The nation’s duty to its service members does not end when their active duty does—it continues until their retirement, manifested through the protection of their health, homes, and the families who ...

A new University of Illinois Chicago study finds that Chicago schools remain sharply divided, with policy decisions and funding gaps shaping students’ access to quality education. More than 70 years ...

Budgets Are Value Statements “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Mayor Brandon Johnson often quotes ...

Key Elementary School, located in the predominantly black Austin neighborhood, has stood empty since 2013 when it became one of 50 under-enrolled Chicago public schools shuttered to save money. Credit ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In Kansas City, the former Graceland Elementary School was transformed into the Mary L. Kelly ...

On a humid Friday in August 1995, Henry Cisneros stood on a makeshift dais on a crumbling basketball court in the Henry Horner Homes on Chicago’s Near West Side. Mayor Richard M. Daley, Horner Local ...

It was just about a year ago that a city whistleblower came to journalist Jamie Kalven and attorney Craig Futterman out of concern that Laquan McDonald’s shooting a few weeks earlier “wasn’t being ...

As much as his life is worthy of honor and celebration, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. likely would have had a hard time during the recent searching examination of gender inequities prompted by the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Ald. Jason Ervin, who represents the 28th Ward on the West Side, is the chief sponsor of a new ...