Investigation: Chicago Schools Failed To Report Abuse Cases
A newspaper investigation has found Chicago Public Schools officials failed to protect hundreds of students who were sexually abused by school employees.
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A newspaper investigation has found Chicago Public Schools officials failed to protect hundreds of students who were sexually abused by school employees.
The controversial move to close more than 50 Chicago Public Schools five years ago has caused an academic struggle for many students, according to a new study from the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research
Chicago Public Schools are initiating training programs to help teachers prepare to handle an active shooting situation.
The state of Illinois has taken control of special education at Chicago Public Schools after concluding a 2016 overhaul by the nation's third-largest school system violated federal law.
CPS leaders announced $75 million for new science labs and renovations.
Student advocates say special education in Chicago's public schools is broken and needs to be fixed.
Chicago Police officers and Chicago Public School students waged battle against each other. They clashed alongside kings and queens using counterattacks, blitzes and stalemates. This is all taking place in the game of chess.
Former Chicago Schools CEO Paul Vallas offered a long list of what he called Emanuel's failures and a peak at how he would govern differently.
"This is a good time to be the leader of Chicago Public Schools, because our financial situation is much stronger than it was two years ago," Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson said.
Budgets for the 2018-19 in Chicago are coming with a guarantee.
"We have rodents, roaches, mold, mildew, asbestos; in other words, filthy unsanitary unhealthy schools," said CTU recording secretary Michael Brunson.
Archaeologists are on site several times a week to monitor for human remains or caskets.
Forty students from three CPS high schools are traveling to Memphis to pay tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King on the 50th anniversary of his assassination
A development company is transforming the school into apartments.
"To meet someone that was so successful and as prominent as Keith Haring was life-changing."
With the day off from school, 300 Chicago Public School students were treated to see Black Panther at a Chatham movie theater.
Facing an intense baclkash from many in the Englewood community, Chicago Public Schools officials have backtracked on their plans to close four high schools in the neighborhood at the end of the school year, and will instead phase those schools out gradually while the district moves forward with plans for a new $85 million facility to replace them.
Chicago Public Schools have canceled classes on Friday, due to the snow.
CPS has not provided qualified foreign-language interpreters for the parents of those children, a new lawsuit claims.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS officials announced Sunday that the program will be expanded to include 14 more elementary schools.
Chicago Public Schools proposes building a new, $85 million high school in Englewood to replace four others it would close.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has promised to unveil plans to make sure every Chicago Public Schools student has the support they will need to meet new graduation requirements he announced last year.
A two-hour public meeting on the Chicago school board's plan to replace four high schools in Englewood with one new $85-million school degenerated at times into a shouting match.
Interim CPS Chief Executive Officer Janice Jackson said the new school would help Englewood thrive.
The Chicago Teachers Union delivered a letter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office at City Hall on Monday, offering advice for interim Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson, and calling for a halt to planned school closings.
Chicago's first documented professional team was founded back in 1870. The white stockings, who eventually became the Chicago Cubs, not the White Sox.
CPD says the suspect used his bare hand to sexually abuse the child after pretending to fall and bracing his fall by grabbing the girl.
Multiple shootings have occurred across the city following a mass shooting on the South Side that left 13 wounded on Friday night.
Dillon Dingler homered and drove in the tying run in the ninth, Matt Vierling's bloop single finished off Detroit's comeback as the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in 10 innings on Sunday.
Serena Williams recently returned to competition in doubles after nearly four years away from professional tennis.
President Trump claims the problems with the Reflecting Pool in Washington are due to vandalism.
The Altoids were a callback to a viral moment between former first lady Michelle Obama and former President George W. Bush.
A senior Justice Department official called a judge's demand for a declaration on the status of the "anti-weaponization" fund "unnecessary."
Trump has appeared during the Iran war to lose patience with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who may now find himself "stuck."
President Trump and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni traded criticism on Saturday after Italy canceled its envoy's visit to the U.S.
An Illinois law banning "swipe fees" on taxes and tips — already delayed twice by lawmakers — appears to be on life support after a federal judge that once permitted it issued a permanent injunction against it this week.
A new study from the Cook County Treasurer's office underlines growing concerns about the impact the Illinois megaprojects bill could have on the county's property tax base and overall fiscal health.
As thousands of Chicagoans wrap up road trips over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, gas prices in the city have reached the highest levels seen in four years.
Consumer and environmental advocates said Monday that they found overcharges buried in the most recent rate-hike request by Nicor.
One week away from Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of the summer travel season, with gas prices remaining high, negotiations were set to resume Monday at the largest oil refinery in the Midwest.
Illinois is among the top 13 states seeing a rise in alpha-gal syndrome cases, with residents living in southern Illinois at the highest risk, according to a 2025 study.
After Bruce Willis was diagnosed with dementia, his wife Emma Heming Willis found a new purpose as a health advocate.
The North Shore suburb of Wilmette this week became the latest Chicago-area municipality to discover mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus this year.
Dr. Peter Stafford was working with a missionary group in the Congo when he came down with the virus last month.
While 330 Ebola infections are confirmed in central Africa and huge challenges remain, hundreds more suspected cases "have been cleared out," the WHO says.
Daley's Restaurant, known as Chicago's oldest, has served Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood for more than 130 years.
Walgreens is set to close in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood on Thursday, and there's growing concern about where families will get their medications.
The owners of Gene & Georgetti steakhouse are suing a concessions operator over their expansion at Midway International Airport.
DraftKings announced Monday that it is closing its sportsbook operation at Wrigley Field after only about two years.
After more than 80 years, there will be no Ann Sather restaurant location in the 900 block of West Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview community, effective in June.
Claude Guillemot and a flight instructor were flying in a twin-motor Cessna 421 on Friday evening. An investigation into the crash is underway.
James Burrows directed more than 1,000 episodes of television, including every episode of the original "Will & Grace."
In a full circle moment, actor Gary Cole returns to the very same local stage where he began his professional acting career.
Record producer Tay Keith was found dead in his Nashville home by officers performing a welfare check, police said.
Tom Dreesen, a pioneering actor and comedian and Chicago-area native, died Wednesday.
His comments come amid speculation that the UK leader could set out a timeline for his departure by Monday.
Since 1985, the local chapter of the foundation has granted 19,000 wishes across the state.
Three people were hospitalized, and six others were treated on-site. Nearly 1,700 tourists had to be evacuated from the resort.
Northeasterly winds on Monday will continue to churn choppy Lake Michigan waters, with wave heights between 4 and 7 feet. Meteorologist Kylee Miller has the latest in First Alert Weather.
Chicago police said that at 8:49 a.m., the 46-year-old man was on a Red Line train when gunfire came from a vehicle headed north on the Dan Ryan Expressway, and the train's glass window was hit.
Multiple shootings have occurred across the city following a mass shooting on the South Side that left 13 wounded on Friday night.
A man on a CTA Red Line train was injured by broken glass in a shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 95th Street Sunday morning.
CPD says the suspect used his bare hand to sexually abuse the child after pretending to fall and bracing his fall by grabbing the girl.
The main building of a once mid-century Chicago retail icon will close forever on Monday—something shoppers say they are not looking forward to.
The ages of the victims range from 14 to 70, according to Chicago police.
Newly released cell phone video of a police shooting in south suburban Country Club Hills appears to contradict what a federal agent claims happened during an undercover gun trafficking sting operation last week.
"A house of horrors." That's how one former Chicago foster child described Aunt Martha's Integrated Care Center, a facility that's been at the center of a years-long CBS News Chicago investigation.
Kindbody entered into an agreement with a cryogenic storage facility in Massachusetts, but not all patients received the email.
A Chicago woman says a life insurance policy she paid into for 25 years was cancelled over a $112 shortfall that she never knew existed, and now, at 82 years old, she's uninsurable.
The Crisis Alternative Response Evanston, or CARE, team responds to calls that, before July 2024, would have been lumped into police calls.
Chicago's first documented professional team was founded back in 1870. The white stockings, who eventually became the Chicago Cubs, not the White Sox.
Dillon Dingler homered and drove in the tying run in the ninth, Matt Vierling's bloop single finished off Detroit's comeback as the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in 10 innings on Sunday.
Serena Williams recently returned to competition in doubles after nearly four years away from professional tennis.
The Chicago Cubs' game against the Toronto Blue Jays that had been planned for Sunday was postponed due to the rain coming in.
Dallas chipped away and trailed 43-38 at halftime, but the Sky dominated the third quarter and led 71-57 before losing for the 10th time in 11 games.
A CTA Red Line train operator was injured by broken glass in a shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 95th Street on Sunday morning.
Would-be burglars crashed their way into a Circle K store in downtown Chicago early Sunday morning.
Detectives from Lake County, Illinois, Sheriff's office rescued a girl under 14 from a grown man who had traveled from Georgia to meet her this weekend, authorities said Sunday.
A man was robbed on a Chicago Transit Authority bus in Chicago's West Englewood community late Saturday night.
A 17-year-old boy was in police custody Sunday morning after a shooting that left another teen dead in the South Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.
