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City voters will elect school board members this fall for the first time. We break down how candidates get on the ballot and how to vote.
Despite spending years apart, Guadalupe Miranda and Fernando Gonzalez graduated from Chicago Public Schools last week. Childhood classmates, both earned full scholarships to Stanford University in August. They’re now hanging out to share excitement about their college plans.
Erik C. Cox and Shealyn Sherwood, both 18, were killed when Ashanti Gates’ car struck them in the outbound lanes early Sunday, prosecutors said. The teens had stopped to fix a flat tire.
Melissa Villanova, a 911 dispatcher, suffered an irregular heart rhythm April 29 — five months after her husband, a Chicago police officer, was shot while on duty. After surgery and weeks in the ICU, Villanova took her first steps this week.