A Better Chicago’s 2025 State of Our Youth report has identified mental health struggles, community violence, and chronic ...

David Schaafsma’s write-in campaign for a seat on the Oak Park and River Forest High School Board came up short.

Carol Moseley Braun, the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate and a lifelong public servant, is the new board chair for the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center.

Despite a last-minute guarantee that jobs held by AFSCME Council 31 members would not be privatized, a joint City Council ...

Gary City Hall was filled with residents Tuesday evening, as Common Council members voted to approve a controversial new construction project that would rezone the area of the former Beckman Middle ...

At its Tuesday meeting, the Gary Common Council narrowly approved the rezoning of the shuttered Alfred Beckman Middle School property.

Busy days and school pick-ups, late night rehearsals, seeing more shows on off-days, with some sauna and acupuncture in ...

Cassandra Walton, a nurse for 27 years at Mason Elementary, received the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses in a surprise ceremony Monday. "School nurses are a beautiful thing," she said.

Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded this year to three scholars and three alumni from the University of Chicago. The distinguished artists, writers and scientists join the 100th class of ...

A senior Chicago high school student was shot and killed in a brazen shooting just weeks before he was set to graduate, his family said.