1969: Controversial University of Chicago sociology professor Marlene Dixon — who inspired a more than two-week sit-in by ...

These additions include the works of Yale-affiliated Black artists and a new portrait of Black theologian Alexander Crummell.

The second annual “Community Readings of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” was hosted by the Martin Marty Center for the ...

Visit the Logan Center for the Arts for the premiere of Roots and Blues, a documentary celebrating the legacy of Muddy Waters ...

Chicago has always had some form of an appointed board. It was long the only school district in Illinois without an elected board. Advocates began pushing for an elected board in Chicago more than ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The city of Chicago continues to grapple with gun violence, which impacts hundreds of people every year. As of July 7, 2024, there have been almost 1,200 total reported shootings ...

Editor's Note: Our latest story on school closings for Tuesday, which includes more than 100 closures, can be found here. Our original story continues below. More than a dozen Chicago-area schools ...

Goshen College has announced its spring lecturers, continuing its newly developed interdepartmental lecture series. All lectures will be free and open to the public. The first event, the Umble Master ...

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share University of Chicago students have canceled one of the school’s well-known traditions in protest of the arrest, suspension and banning from campus of a student ...

The new Chicago Board of Education was sworn in Wednesday morning, marking a historic shift in oversight of the country’s fourth-largest school district after decades of mayoral control of the ...

Personal data from a number of Chicago-area school districts was obtained in a cyberattack targeting PowerSchool, a popular education software company, many districts revealed this week.

But to Professor Nathan Scott of the University of Chicago Divinity School, the answer is clearly yes. Behind the novel’s secular fa?ade, he argues, lies a poetic expression of what theology ...