Candidates weigh in on education
As a teacher shortage looms and the achievement gap widens between wealthy and poor school districts, no issue confronting candidates for governor draws more sustained rhetoric or more varied responses...
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Ryan pork unites candidates
It's hard to get seven political candidates to agree on anything, but the Republicans and Democrats running for governor in the March primary are of one mind when it comes...
Immigrants fear fallout, fatalities across region
As a second round of air strikes was launched Monday in Afghanistan, Chicago-area residents from there and neighboring countries expressed fears about the ramifications and frustration over the lack of...
Afghans fight misperceptions
For Jamila and Kabir Ahang, watching televised reports of refugees fleeing to the Afghan-Pakistani border has stirred some difficult memories. In fall 1983, amid the conflict between Soviet troops and...
Center delay pits Rawls, Tillman
Hobbled by construction delays and financial questions, a long-planned cultural center in Bronzeville has come under criticism from singer Lou Rawls, the Chicago-born Grammy-award winner whose life and career it...
Races differ on reparations
As debate intensifies across the nation over compensating African-Americans for the evils of slavery, the views of Illinois residents on the concept split sharply along racial lines, according to a...