Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot pressed presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg to break his non-disclosure agreement with the elite consulting firm that once employed him, as the crowded 2020 Democratic race progresses toward the Iowa caucuses.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired retiring Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson Monday, saying Johnson lied about an October incident in which he was found sleeping in his car after supposedly having drinks with dinner.
Former Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck was named as Chicago's interim police superintendent by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday.
Some 300,000 Chicago students returned to their schools Friday after an 11-day teachers' strike ended with a deal that will make
More than 25,000 Chicago teachers will return to school on Friday after an 11-day strike in the nation's third-largest school system ended, with a tentative deal ensuring millions of dollars to reduce class sizes and bring more nurses and social workers on campuses.
Some 300,000 Chicago schoolchildren are out of class for the second day in a row Friday, as negotiations continue between the city and thousands of striking educators.
The country's third biggest school district has canceled classes as 25,000 educators plan to walk off the job Thursday.
More than 30,000 Chicago Public Schools teachers and support staff will go on strike if they can't successfully negotiate a contract deal with the district by October 17, the Chicago Teachers Union said in a statement.
Chicago's Democratic mayor is pushing back against Ivanka Trump's "misleading" tweets about recent gun violence in the city, assailing President Donald Trump's daughter for getting several facts wrong.
A Chicago heat wave in 1995 took the lives of hundreds of people. And now the city is facing another.
