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CPS CEO Pedro Martinez may not be moving as aggressively as the CTU wants, but...
The rhetoric about the Chicago police's readiness for the DNC is encouraging. But there’s a...
Merging the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund into the state fund is a political longshot but...
It's rare to see an appointed board get into a public dustup with the mayor...
The Chicago Police Department has a problem with racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-democratic police officers on the force. The Proud Boys,...
Bears President Kevin Warren is a spellbinding salesperson. Twice now, I’ve been in the room as he pitched his vision for a new lakefront stadium...
The lengthy and intense City Council debate this week over the future of ShotSpotter, the heavily hyped and deeply flawed policing technology, came at...
The Chicago Bears’ epically inept unveiling of plans for a new indoor stadium to replace Soldier Field will go down in Chicago lore as one of the...
“Objectively reasonable, necessary and proportionate”: Rarely have a set of words sounded so plain yet proved so inadequate in addressing what...
If Mayor Brandon Johnson seemed short-tempered after losing on the Bring Chicago Home referendum last week — the first major loss of his brief...
ShotSpotter is the technology that just won’t go away. At least not yet. Mayor Brandon Johnson intended to allow the city’s contract with the...
One my favorite rites of midwinter is when Richard Edelman, chief executive of the Chicago-based global public relations firm that bears his name,...
The nation since 2005 has lost a third of its newspapers and two-thirds of its newspaper journalists, according to a study by Northwestern...
The surge of migrants to Chicago, arriving by busloads from Texas, hardly marks the first time a Chicago mayor new to the job has faced an...
Mayor Brandon Johnson has reversed course on major policy moves twice in the last few weeks. In a sense, that’s a welcome development. For his...
There has been a lot of hand-wringing lately about the testy relationship between Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Frankly, they...