This comes as the school district faces a $730 million budget deficit. Chicago Public Schools officials say the changes are ...

A version of this story was first published in the July 2, 2025 issue of the Newswire, an email newsletter that is your ...

Almost a month after ICE mass arrests in the South Loop, city officials are still arguing over who is responsible for ...

Inspector General Deborah Witzburg told the City Council that she’ll investigate the controversial June 4 police response if no one else will.

PRITZKER’s No. 2: Gov. JB Pritzker has tapped Christian Mitchell, a former deputy governor and veteran state representative, ...

District officials say the number of special education teachers will likely increase, but there would be fewer classroom ...

During a City Council committee hearing Chicago police officials defended CPD's actions on a chaotic day in early June that ...

Chicago aldermen on Tuesday questioned what role police officers had in the ICE arrests last month and if there was a ...

In a June 12 letter, the Caucus expressed frustration about CPD’s approach to federal immigration enforcement and criticized ...

CPS employs about 600 crossing guards, and close to 90 are getting pink slips. In addition, about 20 guard vacancies are not ...

That number is up from a previously cited deficit of $529 million, in part due to a $175 million payment to a city pension ...

We had to bring you some of the imaginative stuff as always. Our cover story this week comes from film contributor Kat Sachs, ...