The mayor hopes to pressure Springfield into fully funding Chicago Public Schools. There's no guarantee it will work, and his ...

For months, prominent Chicagoans in for-profit commerce and nonprofit governance, Democrats all, have fretted and shaken their heads as Mayor Brandon Johnson lurched from one crisis to another. So far ...

Years of exorbitant political spending in Illinois – more than $24.3 million since 2010 – has secured an enormous amount of ...

CEO Pedro Martinez of Chicago Public Schools refuses to resign amid tensions and denies any plans to close schools, proposing ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson ignores the Chicago fishing committee, which had plenty to discuss at its return from the summer hiatus ...

The embattled Chicago Public Schools chief came to his own defense today for the first time since reports surfaced that the ...

There is an ongoing fight over a former National Guard armory on Chicago's Southwest Side. It was slated to become a new ...

With this many alders dissenting to Johnson's stance on ShotSpotter and CPS CEO Pedro Martinez, the mayor might want to ...

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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.

Regarding his op-ed “I’m not resigning as CPS chief, and we’re not closing any schools” (Sept. 25): Chicago Public Schools ...

There are 31 candidates on the ballot and 4 people running write-in campaigns for Chicago’s first school board elections on ...