The Chicago Marathon (1977) has been awarded the World Athletics Heritage Plaque in the category of Competition, celebrating ...

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

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

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 ...

With the impending end of the ShotSpotter contract Sept. 22, the vote took place just hours after ShotSpotter cut its prices ...

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

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 ...

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.

Will the freeze apply to those positions? Late Monday, CBS News Chicago was still waiting for the Mayor's office to answer that question. In the meantime, public records requests have revealed the ...

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 ...