Diana Wallace

Chicago Public Schools headquarters, shown in 2019.

CPS’ ‘blatant violation of state law’ over physical restraint of students alleged by State Board of Education: ‘Unconscionable’

May 28, 2023 at 10:31 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools has repeatedly violated state law over the use of physical restraints of students, "overwhelmingly failed" to train its staff properly and continued the practice despite multiple directives...

Guilty verdict four decades in the making: A timeline of the Donnie Rudd case

September 16, 2022 at 4:59 p.m.

Donnie Rudd, a former suburban lawyer and school board member who was convicted in 2018 of killing his bride and setting it up to look like a traffic accident, has...

Members of the community attend an interfaith service on July 10, 2022, at Glencoe Union Church after seven people were killed on July Fourth during a mass shooting in Highland Park.

Highland Park shooting victim touched countless lives with her work at synagogue: ‘Every life cycle event, you shared with Jacki’

February 25, 2025 at 10:08 a.m.

Recent foot surgery kept Ros Lotzof away from the Highland Park Fourth of July parade this year, but her son, daughter-in-law and their three young children were all riding a...

Highland Park was at the center of gun-control debate long before Monday’s shooting; just days ago city honored Uvalde victims

July 5, 2022 at 2:20 p.m.

What haunts longtime Highland Park resident Dana Gordon now are the words of the mother of one of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting victims. Just days ago, Gordon helped organize...

Signs in support of the Chicago Teachers Union are handed out before a caravan from Union Park to Chicago's City Hall Jan. 5, 2022. Chicago Public Schools classes were canceled Wednesday after a Tuesday night CTU vote in favor of refusing in-person work until further COVID-19 safety measures are implemented.

Chicago Teachers Union vote clears way for in-person classes to resume Wednesday in Chicago Public Schools after four days of cancellations over COVID-19 clashes

July 5, 2022 at 2:21 p.m.

A proposal for Chicago Public Schools to resume in-person classes Wednesday has been approved by the Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates following a contentious weeklong standoff. The delegates also...

Dr. Allison Arwady, Chicago's commissioner of public health, provides an update on COVID-19 case data and vaccinations during a press conference at City Hall last week.

New daily COVID-19 cases in Chicago top 400, a metric cited a year ago when CPS decided not to reopen schools

July 5, 2022 at 2:22 p.m.

The average number of new daily COVID-19 cases in Chicago topped 400 Monday, the highest it's been since May 7 and a tenfold increase from the rate's lowest point in...

Rod Moyer says goodbye to his daughter, Ra'Nhi, 6, a kindergartener, outside Saucedo Scholastic Academy on March 1, 2021, as Chicago Public Schools opened to tens of thousands of kindergarten through fifth graders.

Parents group accuses Chicago Teachers Union of ‘moving the goalposts’ as it stages walkout over plan to reopen high schools Monday

July 5, 2022 at 2:22 p.m.

The president of the Chicago Teachers Union on Wednesday called the latest proposal from the city on high school reopening "quite responsive" — but said staff members are staying home...

Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, 35th, speaks outside Brentano Elementary Math & Science Academy on Jan. 4, 2021.

As Chicago Teachers Union members refuse to return to classrooms, CPS mum on possible consequences for those who decline to give lessons in person

July 5, 2022 at 2:22 p.m.

Chicago Teachers Union members who refused to return to classrooms Monday said they're worried about losing their jobs, but they believe that reopening schools is a greater risk. "We're afraid...

Retired teacher Norine Gutekanst attends a CTU vigil last month for staff and students affected by COVID-19. The CTU has announced its members due back to schools Monday won't show up.

Defying CPS, some Chicago Teachers Union members won’t return to schools Monday, say they will teach remotely ‘until buildings are safe’

July 5, 2022 at 2:22 p.m.

The Chicago Teachers Union says some of its members are choosing not to return to school buildings on Monday, in defiance of Chicago Public Schools' reopening plans. The union said...

A COVID-19 Christmas — less glitter, but still some silver linings: ‘It gets back to what’s important’

July 5, 2022 at 2:23 p.m.

Kevin Hermanek crossed his legs while sitting in a wheelchair and peered out the tall first-floor window of a senior living facility in Lincoln Park where his daughter waited outside...

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