Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news.A defiant Mayor Brandon Johnson named six new members to the seven-member Chicago school board Monday, as fallout from the resignations of all board members…
Three shelter security guards are suing the city and Mayor Eric Adams’ embattled former advisor Tim Pearson, alleging he attacked them last fall when they asked for his identification at the entrance to a midtown migrant shelter. “Bitch, do you know who I am?” Pearson shouted at Arrow Security employee Leesha Bell, as he grabbed […]
On Oct. 10, WSKG will air coverage of the debate for New York’s 19th Congressional District, and on Oct. 17, WSKG will host a debate between the candidates running for New York’s 52nd Senate District.
Members of the Onondaga Nation want to restore the 1,000 acres of land they received from Honeywell International, which did extensive salt mining on the land.
Philip Banks III, Mayor Eric Adams’ deputy mayor for public safety and a longtime associate of the mayor, resigned Sunday night, weeks after his home was raided and phone seized by federal authorities investigating potential corruption in the Adams’ administration. The exit from Adams’ team is one of several by top Adams’ advisors, including schools […]
The most politically divided time in US democracy coincided with a boom in new communications technologies, confrontational political influencers and widespread disinformation. It wasn’t 2024.
This summer, Providence Medical Center in Wyandotte County joined the growing list of community hospitals that no longer deliver babies. The for-profit hospital in a residential corner of northwest Kansas City, Kansas, said a decade of declining birth numbers prompted its decision to shutter its labor and delivery department at the end of June. Since […]
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging Gov. Tony Evers’ last-minute budget maneuver increasing funding for Wisconsin school districts for the next 400 years.
