The Illinois High School Musical Theatre Awards were just presented, and two local teens are heading to Broadway.The students talked to ABC7 Chicago's Hosea Sanders just after they won. Now, they're ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago-area native and former substitute teacher at St. Rita High School, has become the first ...

As Pope Leo XIV met with journalists in Rome Monday, students at Leo Catholic High School in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood offered a special prayer service in support of the pontiff.

The challenges for the Catholic Church in Chicago, where Robert Prevost grew up, are a microcosm of the gargantuan problems ...

The Chicago ... my South Side school, our students are 100% minority, and 96% of them are considered economically disadvantaged. We’re labeled hard to staff by (the Illinois State Board of ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Micha Thurston, a teacher at Octavio Paz Elementary School, was ...

The family of a Chicago Public Schools student with special needs said their child was attacked, and the adults at his school did nothing to prevent it. The allegation was revealed in a lawsuit ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Tuesday is Earth Day, and the Excel Academy of Roseland is working to keep their neighborhood clean during the second annual Joyce Chapman Clean and Green Cleanup. Nearly 100 ...

His contract allowed him to serve through the end of the school year. Board Member Ericka Fisher, of Worcester, lauded that Martinez was “able to raise teacher salaries” while in Chicago.

When the Chicago Board of Education recently overruled the school district’s plan to fire an employee with a long history of alleged threats and harassment against her co-workers, it was the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An 19-year-old high school student was killed in a shooting Tuesday night, Chicago police said. The shooting took place at about 8:11 p.m. in the 1000 block of West 115th Street ...