Order kept cleric after sex abuse accusations, the roads to a mayoral runoff and more in your Chicago news roundup Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 24, 2023
Picture Chicago: 16 must-see photos from the last week Campaign efforts, protests and more highlight our photographers’ best photos from the last week. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 24, 2023
Here’s how the 4 mayoral front-runners plan to make the runoff If the vote total is close to the 556,758 mayoral ballots cast in 2019, the two hopefuls making the runoff are likely to get 20% each. But the four top-polling contenders each have a different formula to reach that benchmark. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 24, 2023
Students of all ages need hands-on experience in career education Students don’t get sufficient chances to learn about the array of jobs available to them in a meaningful way. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 23, 2023
CPS 2023-24 calendar once again starts before Labor Day, gives two-week winter break Some parents have complained that the earlier start cuts into the end of the summer and some planned vacations. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 22, 2023
CPS spending $76 million to upgrade aging security cameras High-definition cameras will be installed at 311 district schools over three years, CPS announced Wednesday, including at Benito Juarez High School in Pilsen, where two students were killed after school last year. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 22, 2023
Lightfoot campaign sent 9,900 emails seeking support from CPS, City Colleges staff, documents show Among the emails were four to City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor Juan Salgado — who reports to the mayor — at his work email address inviting him to a Lightfoot campaign event. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 21, 2023
CPS teams up with NASCAR for design competition, race car-themed curriculum The competition will challenge 22,000 K-12 students in 43 STEM schools to design a driving helmet. CPS will also integrate a NASCAR-themed science unit into its 8th-grade curriculum next year. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 21, 2023
Ald. Sophia King says Chicago needs a mayor who can represent the ‘entire city — not just segregated parts’ of it “There is a lot of dissension between the administration and the police and our teachers. With all of my colleagues leaving — 16 of us — we’re at a pivotal point. We really need some stability in this city,” mayoral challenger Sophia King told the City Club of Chicago. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 16, 2023
South Side candidates rush to succeed departing King in 4th Ward, oust appointed Lee in 11th Ward With Ald. Sophia King running for mayor instead of reelection, six candidates are hoping to replace her in the 4th Ward. In the 11th Ward, appointed Ald. Nicole Lee faces six challengers. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 16, 2023
A rise in after-school shootings, Black Restaurant Week kicks off and more in your Chicago news roundup Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 13, 2023
Boy, 16, charged in mass shooting outside Juarez high school that killed 2 teens, wounded 2 others “We currently don’t have a clear motive for why a 16-year-old would want to shoot and kill other kids,” Police Supt. David Brown said. “It’s unconscionable, as you can imagine, trying to find some reasoning behind it.” Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 10, 2023
Picture Chicago: Must-see photos from the last couple weeks in the city Chicago mayoral candidates campaign, kids try out for the Jesse White Tumblers and more in our best photos of the last few weeks. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 10, 2023
New poll forecasts trouble for Lightfoot’s reelection bid, how to help Turkey and Syria and more in your Chicago news roundup Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 8, 2023
Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 8, 2023 Paul Vallas focus of attacks at WBEZ/Sun-Times mayoral forum Former CPS CEO Paul Vallas has blanketed airwaves with commercials on the crime issue, and recent internal and external polls show him leading the pack or near the top.
Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 8, 2023 POLL: Bleak numbers spell trouble for Mayor Lightfoot’s reelection bid With the election less than three weeks away, three out of five voters disapprove of the job the mayor has done in her first term and 71% think the city is on the wrong track, according to a Sun-Times/WBEZ/Telemundo Chicago/NBC5 poll of Chicago voters.
Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 6, 2023 Meet Chicago’s 2023 mayoral candidates Nine mayoral candidates are vying to be your pick on Feb. 28. Read our profiles of each contender here.
Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 5, 2023 Nine mayoral hopefuls offer plans to handle shrinking CPS enrollment, elected school board, union friction Voters face a long list of candidates for Chicago mayor, some with vastly different views on public schools, and longstanding history, for better or worse, with the district.
Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 1, 2023 Chicago family sues after separation at border, meeting the mayoral candidates and more in your Chicago news roundup Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.
Ballotpedia · Feb 1, 2023 Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #47 Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.
Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 1, 2023 Paul Vallas says voters should focus more on competency over likability Vallas, a former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, said his years of experience at the top of CPS and other major school districts around the country make him well-suited to fix the city’s problems.
Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 1, 2023 Video shows physical altercation between student and staff member at Roosevelt High School in Albany Park The video appears to show a staff member grabbing a student by the neck and shoving him to the ground. The staff member has been removed as a probe is conducted.
Chicago Tribune · Jan 27, 2023 Mayor Lightfoot's campaign defended emails seeking volunteers after school district raised alarm CHICAGO — A Chicago Public Schools official informed Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s campaign team that it can’t recruit students for political work on campus or offer extra credit — hours before the mayor’s campaign released a statement defending it as a “common practice” done for decades, emails obtained by The Chicago…
Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 25, 2023 ‘The voice of the Board of Education’ longtime secretary Estela Beltran to retire after 37 years Best known for her calm, recognizable voice leading board meetings, Beltran started her career at Chicago Public Schools in 1986.
Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 24, 2023 Board of Ethics wants Lightfoot campaign investigated over recruiting student volunteers from CPS, City Colleges The email deputy campaign manager Megan Crane sent to Chicago Public School teachers offered their students class credit if they agreed to volunteer for the mayor’s re-election campaign.