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Abdullah Qureshi’s targets included a 14-year-old boy on his way to school and a 64-year-old man who was knocked out as he made his way to a synagogue

The order “could encompass speech ... that [the mother] believe[s] valid and substantiated even if CPS ultimately determines that [it is] not.”

The Chicago Board of Education has revoked the charter of the storied Urban Prep Academy schools in Bronzeville and Englewood and, over howls of local protest, cleared the way for a hostile takeover by the bureaucrats of Chicago Public Schools.

35-year-old Anthony Paine ended his own life on February 19 2018

Martyna’s story is an object lesson in the state’s failure towards vulnerable women, says Harriet Wistrich, director of the Centre for Women’s justice

Alex Belfield could have been given longer prison term but legal technicality makes it too late to change

CHICAGO — Jones College Prep students gathered for a sit-in Monday following controversy around a student who attended the school in a German military costume for Halloween and made gestures seen as antisemitic. The school’s lack of response to the incident prompted the protest, where students called for change in…

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has moved millions in pensions and other costs to CPS before it becomes independent, run by an elected board. Those new payments and longstanding financial challenges could lead to dire choices once federal pandemic relief runs out.

Students booed the boy while he goose-stepped across the stage during a costume display

CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools announced Friday that Jones College Prep Principal Joseph Powers has been removed from “principal duties, effective immediately, pending the results” of an investigation into his response to a student who came to school on Halloween dressed in a German military uniform, goose-stepped across a stage…

“We should have handled the incident with greater care,” the school’s principal, Joe Powers, told parents in an email earlier Friday.