University officials issued an emergency alert, urging students to shelter in place and avoid the area near the student ...

Several Chicago police officers assigned to the Harrison District were found to have repeatedly violated Chicago Police Department rules related to traffic stops in the months before they were involve ...

Despite the ruse, prosecutors eventually charged 25-year-old Josalyn Fowler in the April 16 death of Kevin Patel. A Cook ...

A Texas mother who officials say took alcoholic Jell-O shots to her child’s elementary school Christmas party has been ...

Black students at NIU express concern over the dismantling of the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database for police accountability.

The new Chicago Teachers Union contract grows an education model that is failing students while attacking parents’ ability to ...

A proposed CPS resolution would require charter school operators to give the district 18 months notice of closing a school and assume financial responsibility related to the closure.

Chicago Public Schools is considering laying off hundreds of school-based staffers next school year — one of multiple ...

The best stories published in the arts section from the 2024 to 2025 school year. True to form, Arts’ output for the year ...

Police are warning teens that playing “Senior Assassin,” especially ambushing or trespassing while wearing masks, camo or ...

The database, in operation for 20 years, isn't audited, has attracted little attention and uses speculative criteria such as clothing and tattoos to designate people as members of criminal gangs.

The suburban Chicago man who admitted to fatally shooting seven people and wounding dozens of others during a 2022 Independence Day parade was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the ...