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Children of the crisis: CPS prepares to welcome migrants who will need much more than schooling to...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThey waited for more than five hours. Just days before her son, Ronald, started third grade in...
Chicago’s Latino voters could be key in the mayor race. Will they back ‘Uncle’ Chuy García or a...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAmid the turquoise walls and sea life figurines adorning a marine-themed mariscos restaurant in Belmont Cragin, a crowd ebbed and flowed around U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García. Then the wave of ...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has vowed to bring preschool to every Illinois child. That’s easier said than...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCHICAGO — In his second inaugural address in January, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker promised to “make preschool available to every family throughout the state” — a feat that will require solutions ...
Without busing, CPS parents tell board of ed, they’re commuting for hours and risking their jobs
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoHe’s giving it a couple more weeks. Chicago Public Schools parent Deepak Jha says he and his first...
South Shore residents file lawsuit against city over plans to use high school as migrant shelter:...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs Chicago struggles to house migrants in homeless shelters and police stations, prompting the outgoing mayor to declare a state of emergency, some neighborhood residents have expressed disappointment ...
CPS students head back to class after a short summer as district aims for ‘recovery year’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoChicago Public Schools students returned to classrooms Monday after a shorter-than-usual summer. The...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders endorses CTU organizer Graciela Guzmán in Illinois Senate race
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoU.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a fixture of progressive politics on Capitol Hill, announced Tuesday his...
Migrants moved to Park District field houses, as South Shore residents criticize city for shelter...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to house some of the city’s surging population of migrants at a former high school in the South Shore neighborhood prompted shouts by frustrated residents who said ...
Chicagoans face winter storm head-on as severe weather bears down on the city
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs the snow started to fall across Chicago on Thursday, with the promise of pounding wind and plummeting temperatures to come later, a group of neighbors in West Lawn dubbed the “Snow Angels ...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs $50.4 billion state budget but vetoes legislators’ pay hike that exceeded...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDemocratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed a $50.4 billion state budget that boosts funding...