Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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education
  • by david hall
Charter schools, parents demand answers from CPS: 'Stop playing political games'

The Board of Education is currently crafting a five-year plan for CPS but has not sufficiently addressed the future of charter schools, the group said Wednesday at a rally outside Jones College Prep.

immigration
  • by david hall
12 migrants taken to hospitals with possible food poisoning

The call came in from a shelter at 1310 N. Elston Ave. about 1:30 p.m. and 12 adults were taken to four different local hospitals, though it was not “life threatening,” fire officials told the Sun-Times Thursday afternoon.

2024-democratic-national-convention
  • by david hall
Poor People's Army plans to march to 'front doors' of the DNC next week — but not ‘to cause a ruckus’

The Philadelphia-based group was granted a permit to march during the Democratic National Convention on a technicality. The city of Chicago failed to respond to the application within its own 10-day deadline.

crime
  • by david hall
Wicked Town defendant gets 32 years for sending friend to his death, acting as ‘the jury, the judge, executioner’

The dramatic sentencing hearing Thursday stemmed from the feds’ prosecution of the Wicked Town street gang, which U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin called the “most vicious gang ever prosecuted in this building.”