Chicago Current archives
May 21, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Public school teachers cheer outside the Chicago Board of Education district headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong). Chicago is braced for a critical vote by the Board of Education this week to determine if ...
May 21, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
(Karen Lewis, center, President of the Chicago Teachers Union addresses other opponents of a plan to close 54 Chicago Public Schools during a demonstration and march through Chicago's downtown Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Rex ...
May 21, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
The hotel's owner, Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA), has invested nearly $110 million in the total renovation of the hotel, which provides a new guestroom tower, expanding the hotel to 1,258 guestrooms, renovated outlets, meetings and ...
May 21, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Lou Weeks, executive vice president of UniteHere Local 1, on Monday morning reiterated the union's months-long request that the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which owns Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, push Hyatt to provide the hotel's ...
May 21, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which owns McCormick Place and would own the arena, also would receive all revenue from DePaul event parking in 2,000 center spaces, ticket service fees, concession sales on everything but DePaul ...
May 21, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
According to a report issued today the Civic Federation, the unfunded liability in 10 local pension funds covering workers for the city, Chicago Public Schools, Cook County, Chicago Transit Authority and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District rose 16 ...
May 20, 2013 @ 7:00 AM
REUTERS - A trans-Atlantic divide between European and U.S. retailers over how best to respond to fatal disasters in Bangladesh textile factories split wide open on Wednesday, with U.S. retailers claiming their European counterparts are giving labor ...
May 20, 2013 @ 7:00 AM
Photo courtesy of DePaul Newsroom. Chicago Federation of Labor Jorge Ramirez, Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority CEO Jim Reilly, DePaul president Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M. and Mayor Rahm Emanuel walk and talk at McCormick Place ...
May 20, 2013 @ 7:00 AM
Rod Blagojevich, age 56 …Martha Stewart, age 71. and …Bernard Madoff, age 75. I don't know about you, Hal, but I'm 45 years old and I make mistakes all the time. My three kids do, too, and my friends and I often talk about how exhausting it is to ...
May 20, 2013 @ 7:00 AM
Outside the Garfield Green Line station, CTA President Forrest Claypool and board Chairman Terry Peterson expressed confidence that the agency had prepared well for the closures, though they encouraged commuters to budget plenty of extra time as they ...
May 20, 2013 @ 7:00 AM
CHICAGO, May 19, 2013 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In remarks to graduates from DePaul University's 100-year-old College of Law, Richard M. Daley described the law as "the rulebook for society." ...
May 20, 2013 @ 7:00 AM
Karen Macella of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission will share tips and information for college-bound students. Topics include academics, social life, community, safety and more. This program is for high school students and their parents ...
May 20, 2013 @ 7:00 AM
He said that by doing so, Illinois could save as much as $100 million in salaries for administrators, alone. But largely because of the political muscle of educators' unions, that idea went nowhere in the Illinois General Assembly last year. One reason ...
May 20, 2013 @ 7:00 AM
CLC President Jerry Weber said he'll continue to press for Illinois' community college job-training legislation if, as he expects, it doesn't gain House approval during the current General Assembly session. Weber said community colleges can play a role ...
May 20, 2013 @ 7:00 AM
BRANDON JOHNSON, ORGANIZER, CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION: People are tired of their communities being disinvested in. People are frustrated with the mayor and CPS ignoring parental and community teacher voice. You know. So we want our voices ...
