The Chicago Teachers Union says they could soon take a vote on ... I defy anyone to sit completely still while that song plays. The funky beat and the brass riffs compel you to move your body.

Nobody knew more about the 212-year history of Albany Academy than archivist John McClintock. When he died on Jan. 1 at 86 after a two-year struggle with bladder cancer, it meant the loss of ...

After nine months of ham-fisted stabs at power politics, the Chicago Teachers Union’s leadership says a strike is likely. Teachers could walk off the job as early as March. The irony couldn’t be any ...

The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools entered the “fact finding” phase of negotiations in January 2025. Here’s what that means, whether Chicago students might be out of class, when and ...

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates says a fact-finding process underway now is “stacked against” the CTU, opening the door for a strike as early as March.

The Chicago Teachers Union was the biggest spender in Chicago’s first school board elections, which pitted the union against ...

We check in with the Hix Bros Ukulele Band ahead of their performance for National Ukulele Day on Sunday, Feb. 2.

One of the finalists is Dr. Justin Antos, music teacher at Eisenhower High School in Blue Island. He's been inspiring the love of music in his students for the past 17 years. "I've been blessed in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A former Chicago Public Schools gym teacher will serve 17 years in prison for sexually assaulting three students. A judge sentenced Andrew Castro on Friday. He pleaded guilty to ...

Andrew Castro, a former gym teacher Federico Garcia Lorca Elementary in Avondale, pleaded guilty to abusing three of his students. Google Maps Share A former Chicago Public Schools gym teacher has ...

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