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Chicago Public Schools open Monday with a new mayor and a school board who want to shake up how the school district is run.

The effort comes after WBEZ obtained footage of a Waukegan cop leading a 15-year-old to falsely confess to a shooting.

So-called participatory budgeting, in which residents vote on spending projects in their wards, started in the United States in Chicago, but its growth has stalled.

Hospital union workers are seeking better pay and more staff. The report details how a patient died after being left alone in the emergency room.

Mr. Parra, who had more than 8,000 vinyl albums in his collection that he would draw from for his show, developed a devoted on-air following, formed his own band — also named Mambo Express — and was on air for more than 30 years.

Nine principals have been removed pending discipline or investigations into “serious misconduct” in recent years. Of those, six are Black men.

The unidentified lifeguard was fired two years after accusations of sexual assault, abuse and harassment surfaced at the city’s public beaches and pools.

The newly seated board, hand-picked by Mayor Johnson, leans heavily on activists with experience in organizing and with nonprofit groups.

In Illinois, 8% of the population doesn’t speak English very well, and that’s a barrier for immigrants participating in civic life. Dozens of organizations such as the Selfreliance Association have partnered with the city and state to help limited English speakers access health care, food stamps…