WAR ZONE: The battle between Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez escalated Tuesday, with some community leaders taking sides.

Chicago still has a commissioner of Cultural Affairs — in fact, the role has been expanded since the Weisberg days to include special events, such as big festivals. The post currently is occupied by ...

Times, WBEZ and Chalkbeat asked every candidate for Chicago’s first elected school board a series of questions about their ...

Key context: The ordinance marks the City Council’s latest effort to keep the ShotSpotter system intact after Mayor Brandon ...

A Face in the Crowd,” among others in the Film Center’s “Democracy at Risk” series, wonders how much strain our civic institutions can handle.

Hosted by the Change Collective, Jackson Mayor Chowke Antar Lumumba sat down ... Cohort members from Jackson, Chicago and Detroit attended the two-day Jackson event. On Friday afternoon, the ...

Avoiding the thorniest topics around selective elective enrollment, magnet and charter schools is likely to go over well with ...

Gary Mayor Eddie Melton said Tito Jackson became ... but when the artist learned of Jackson's passing, he packed his art supplies. "My way of paying homage and a tribute is a blank canvas and ...

Good morning, Chicago. The Federal Reserve announced yesterday its first interest rate cut since the pandemic, a move real estate developers say could eventually help kick off the construction of new ...

A new cancer center in Crown Point is being touted as world-class and is intended to be regional destination for the advanced ...

Brandon Johnson kills a technology that detects shootings and saves lives.

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