Cook County commissioners will be on the hot seat Thursday as they face critics and supporters of a controversial policy directing the county sheriff to ignore requests from the feds to hold suspected illegal immigrants in jail longer.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday he’s evaluating plans to shave up to 12 minutes off CTA travel times between downtown and O’Hare Airport and Midway Airports, a goal he views as more attainable than his predecessor’s dream of an express train to O’Hare.
The Chicago Teachers Union filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday alleging that layoffs last summer targeted tenured African-American teachers who represent a third of the CPS teachers.
Seven of the most shabby, leaky and all-around deplorable rail stations on the CTA Red Line's north branch will be part of a $57.4 million facelift project starting this summer and running through early next year, under a contract the CTA board approved Wednesday.
Some public university employees have figured out a way to keep their jobs and double their salaries. CBS 2 found employees at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the City Colleges of Chicago, and Chicago State University who also retired and returned to draw both a university pension and a university salary.
A study of Chicago's most aggressive efforts to reform failing schools, including replacing school leadership and staff in "turnaround" efforts, finds that targeted schools did improve even though students continued to score below district standards.
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Some of the city's leading cultural institutions are being considered as potential venues for private events when the G-8 and NATO summits bring dozens of world leaders to Chicago in May, officials said this week.
The Chicago Tribune will begin charging online readers for access to content and is considering a "creative way" to do that, said Gerould Kern, the paper's editor.
Neighbors have started a campaign to save a 1927 building near Midway Airport in the wake of a Chicago City Council voted last fall to acquire it and three other properties. City aviation officials say the buildings are expected to be torn down and converted into green space after the Federal Aviation Administration designated them unsafe due to their nearness to Midway Airport.
Attorneys for the family of David Koschman on Tuesday asked a judge to release transcripts of interviews that investigators recently conducted with Koschman’s friends and other witnesses. Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez included portions of those interviews in her objection to Nanci Koschman’s request that a special prosecutor re-examine what happened to her son, who died in 2004 following a drunken confrontation with a group that included Richard J. “R.J.” Vanecko, a nephew of then-Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Speaker Michael Madigan on Tuesday outlined grim budget news to House Democrats who left a closed-door meeting predicting deep budget cuts, particularly in health care for the poor.
