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Chicago vows to fight concealed carry ruling
With parts of the city in the grip of gang warfare and spiking homicide rates, Chicago aldermen are urging state officials to appeal an appellate ...
Court ruling on Ill. gun ban sets stage for fight
Backers of Illinois' ban on concealed weapons vowed Wednesday to fight for continued controls on gun possession, a day after a federal appeals court ...
5 states to increase class time in some schools
Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Five states announced ...
Obama's education agenda dominated by loose ends
President Barack Obama's education agenda for next four years may look less like real reform and more like tying up loose ends, experts say, with ...
Chicago's top cop: 'Code of silence' not tolerated
Just before the beating of a female bartender by an off-duty Chicago police officer persuaded him to end his own career, then-police Superintendent ...
Will Chicago act on verdict in cop beating trial?
Will the city act? That's the question many Chicagoans will be asking Wednesday — a day after the dramatic conclusion of a civil trial that stemmed ...
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. leaves Mayo Clinic
Questions about Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s health and political future swirled again Tuesday as the Chicago congressman left the Mayo Clinic for the ...
Campaign surrogates shore up support in final days
President Barack Obama has Springsteen. Republican Mitt Romney has his sons. They, along with dozens of other celebrities and elected officials, are ...
Obama, Romney allies square off on foreign policy
On the eve of their final presidential debate, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama — through their allies — squared off Sunday over which candidate would ...
Chicago schools CEO replaced after 17 months
Just three weeks after Chicago teachers returned to the classroom following a bitter strike, Mayor Rahm Emanuel replaced his schools CEO with a ...
Testing nonprofit waters with Chicago Ideas Week
There are TED talks, Davos and Renaissance Weekends, all for innovators and world leaders to share creative ideas and make lucrative connections.
Chicago teachers vote to approve 3-year contract
Members of the Chicago Teachers Union overwhelmingly have approved a new three-year contract that includes pay increases and a new evaluation system, ...
Cubbies on cusp of first 100-loss season since '66
Even for a team with a record of futility unmatched in professional baseball, this season has been one of the most dismal in Chicago Cubs history.
School strike first of many challenges for Emanuel
The grueling teachers strike is over. Now comes the hard part for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. As he pushes ahead on his promise to reform the city's ...
Obama suggests Romney is out of touch with America
President Barack Obama cast Mitt Romney on Thursday as an out-of-touch challenger for the White House and an advocate of education cuts that could ...
After teachers strike, doubts about implications
Mayor Rahm Emanuel secured an extension of Chicago's school day and empowered principals to hire the teachers they want. Teachers were able to soften ...
Chicago teachers vote to return to classroom
Teachers agreed Tuesday to return to the classroom after more than a week on the picket lines in Chicago, ending a combative stalemate with Mayor Rahm ...
Contract issues in the Chicago teachers strike
Delegates representing Chicago's teachers are scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to end a strike after reviewing a proposed contract settlement that ...
Chicago teachers to again consider ending strike
An angry Mayor Rahm Emanuel's appeal to the courts to end a six-day teachers strike in the nation's third largest city set off a new round of ...
Weighing offer, Chicago teachers remain on strike
Chicago teachers uncomfortable with a tentative contract offer decided Sunday to remain on strike, insisting they need more time before deciding ...
Thousands of striking teachers rally in Chicago
Thousands of striking Chicago public school teachers and their allies packed a city park Saturday in a boisterous show of force as union leaders and ...
Negotiators have 'framework' to end Chicago strike
The city's nearly weeklong teachers strike appeared headed toward a resolution Friday after negotiators emerged from marathon talks to say they had ...
Talks to end Chicago teachers strike make progress
The city's public schools will stay closed for at least one more day, but leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union and the school district kept talking ...