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Lincoln Park High School students protest recent changes in school administration Feb. 6, 2020.

Lincoln Park High School local council says it was ‘completely blindsided’ by leaders’ removal but Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says CPS has ‘done a good job’ handling alleged misconduct

February 7, 2020 at 11:23 p.m.

Members of the Lincoln Park High School School Council say they were left out of the decision to remove top administrators and demanded more details from Chicago Public Schools officials....

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot tussled with Uber over ride-share taxes; now the company is helping promote the 2020 census.

Uber gives $100,000 to Chicago’s 2020 census effort after ugly fight over ride-share taxes

February 5, 2020 at 9:02 p.m.

After a contentious few months with Chicago leaders over ride-share fees, Uber has pledged $100,000 toward the city's efforts to ensure high participation in the 2020 census. The money is...

There’s much at stake for Illinois in the 2020 census. Yet many of the groups tasked with outreach haven’t received state funding yet.

January 28, 2020 at 5:28 p.m.

Armed with a clipboard, a script and a phone app, three workers from Mano a Mano Family Resource Center set out on a Chicago block to begin the daunting task...

Paramedics transport a man believed to be Hong Kong's first coronavirus patient to a hospital on Jan. 22, 2020.

Chicago woman who traveled to China diagnosed with coronavirus, health officials say

January 25, 2020 at 4:35 p.m.

A Chicago woman who returned from caring for her sick father in China earlier this month has been diagnosed with the respiratory coronavirus that has sickened more than 1,280 in...

Chicago police process a crime scene after five people were shot near Pulaski Road and Maypole Avenue in Chicago on Jan. 16, 2020.

Chicago police officers tended to wounded boys in West Side barbershop shooting. ‘They were in shock. Scared.’

January 18, 2020 at 1:09 a.m.

The first officers at the West Side barber shop picked their way through shell casings and broken glass littering the sidewalk from large bullet holes in the door and window....

Probation for man who choked young girl in bathroom of South Loop deli. ‘She’s had to learn again that most people are good’

January 16, 2020 at 8:44 p.m.

It's been more than three years, but a family says it still hasn't shaken the memory of a Saturday in the South Loop that was supposed to be filled with...

A police supervisor and officer stand inside a cellphone store in the 3700 block of West 26th Street near where a 7-year-old girl who was shot while trick-or-treating on Halloween.

Chicago police honor citizens who helped after girl was shot while trick-or-treating on Halloween in Little Village: ‘I did what my heart told me to do’

January 16, 2020 at 12:41 a.m.

Lali Lara's children had just passed by her workplace in Chicago's Little Village on Halloween night when gunfire broke out on a bustling 26th Street. Soon, Lara heard the screams...

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