Chicago Children Can Try To Opt Out Of The PARCC Standardized Test ... If They Dare
At at least one school, children were intimidated and shamed into agreeing to take the highly criticized PARCC standardized test.
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At at least one school, children were intimidated and shamed into agreeing to take the highly criticized PARCC standardized test.
An Illinois State Toll Highway Authority committee has recommended increasing speed limits on parts of three tollways.
Americans need to do a much better job of eating fruits and vegetables, but what does a typical person consume in a day?
A Palestinian immigrant who hid an Israeli terrorism conviction from U.S. authorities when she moved to the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and will likely be deported to Jordan upon her release.
A far west suburban school district has turned to social media for a much loved custodian, who showed up at work as usual the day after a fire burned up everything in his home in Aurora.
Two gas stations in the western suburbs have been waging an old-fashioned price war for more than a week.
The unanimous vote on Thursday means the university and Urbana-based Carle Foundation hospital will negotiate the details of the hospital's pledge to provide $100 million to the project over 10 years.
After repeatedly meeting with both Mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia over the past few weeks, businessman Willie Wilson threw his support behind Garcia in the upcoming runoff election.
Berg and Rihanna first worked together professionally on the film Battleship, which he directed and in which she starred.
Tommy Schaefer, 21, and Heather Mack, 19, are being tried separately by Denpasar District Court, where they are charged with premeditated murder for the death of Sheila von Wiese-Mack last August in Bali. They could face a firing squad if found guilty. The victim's badly beaten body was found in a suitcase on a taxi.
A Chicago cab driver who sued the city in an effort to get cabbies classified as government employees has been slapped with a $10,000 bill for the city's legal costs.
Barrow was one of the founders of the Chicago chapter of Operation Breadbasket, which became Operation PUSH. Barrow had been hospitalized for more than a week with a blood clot in her lung.
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Watch the games during March Madness at these Chicago bars.
The handshake line at the end of a boys' basketball playoff game erupted into an all-out brawl Wednesday night, with fans rushing the court to join a fight between the two teams.
