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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.

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

Aaron ‘Jitu’ Brown, a longtime Chicago resident with a son in Chicago Public Schools, is the lone candidate on the ballot ...

The head of New York City’s public schools system, David Banks, said Tuesday that he will step down at the end of the ...

The people who opened fire in a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, late Saturday are suspected of using “conversion devices” in carrying out the attack, and over 100 shell casings were collected at ...

Former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke to an abortion rights group in Chicago on Monday and stressed the importance of ...

They say you can’t fight City Hall. But Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez is doing just that, refusing to bow to ...

Illinois’s governor could have a fight on his hands with the mayor of the state’s biggest city. And a lot of nursing homes in ...

Let no political party assume it owns us or our precious vote. That will go to the person and party that deserves our support ...

Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the director of New York City’s Office of Asylum Seeker Operations, the latest sign of ...

There will never be another leader like Earline Rogers, State Rep. Vernon Smith said Thursday night. “In 100 years, we still won’t see someone like her,” said Smith, D-Gary. “She was tenacious.