CHANGE Illinois’ executive director Ra Joy, with a track record of building consensus, recently stated that political players have failed to initiate districting reforms, citing multiple attempts by progressive organizations to balance the state’s boundaries.
With days to go before Illinois enters the next fiscal year without a budget in place, Gov.
Bruce Rauner recently took Democrats to task in Springfield, scolding the party
for dragging its feet on compromise.
The city of Chicago Committee on Education and Child Development will meet Monday to consider consolidating child development programs at the City Colleges to single location.
A Chicago policewoman this week said she and another cop were subjected to barely veiled death threats, banishment from buildings, accusations by senior officers of being “rats,” and even arrests in response to their blowing the whistle on a corrupt crew within the city's police department.
Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs divulged recently that the state suffered $31.2 million in missed revenue opportunities in the year’s first quarter following the state’s epic budget impasse, with his office forced into difficult choices.
A Chicago math teacher and chess coach expelled from the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) for skipping an organized strike in April fears he may have to pay an even
steeper price.
Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Lodge 85 and West Chicago’s Park District joined recently in a tribute to Michael Browning, whose passing 24 years ago was memorialized by a scholarship and street bearing his name.
Through keen and covert observation, a suburban Chicago Veteran Affairs hospital has been identified as a refuge for roaches, inciting Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) to insist on answers to allegations of unsanitary conditions.
Northwestern University's Kate O’Donnell has made great strides her freshman season
and is an integral part of the sailing team’s future moving forward.
Latin School of Chicago athletic director and soccer coach Tom Bower was inducted into the Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Association Hall of Fame last week.
The city of Chicago Plan Commission met Thursday to consider the sale of multiple plats of city-owned land under the Adjacent Neighbors Land Acquisition Program.
The city of Chicago Community Development Commission met Tuesday to request authority to advertise the Department of Planning and Development’s intention to enter into a negotiated sale with Ujamaa Holdings Group LLC for the disposition of the property at 2810-14 and 2820 E. 83rd St.