LOW ATTENDANCE RATE COSTS CITY SCHOOLS
On an average day this spring, more than 45,000 Chicago public school students-one of every nine in the system-were absent, school records show. That`s more than all of the students...
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CITY`S WILLING TO PAY FOR GOOD SCHOOLS, POLL SAYS
Chicagoans, concerned about the poor quality of the city`s public schools, are willing to pay more in taxes to improve them, a Tribune poll has found. In addition, there is...
CITY BRINGS UP THE REAR IN TAXES FOR EDUCATION
Chicago provides less property tax money per pupil for its public schools than any other community in Cook or Du Page Counties, a Tribune analysis of tax and school records...
FOR CITY`S CHURCHES, A TIME TO PRAY
Besie Smith prayed Sunday for Harold Washington. ''I loved him,'' she said. ''We had him for a little while, and I`m thankful for that. I pray we can carry on...
SENSE OF LOSS BEGINS TO HIT HOME
At a dropin center for homeless people west of the Loop, Abe House, a black man who only recently found a place to live, stood up Thursday at a memorial...
HUD CHIEF SIGNS CHA ACCORD
After waiting for more than a week, Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr. of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) signed a compromise agreement Wednesday for the future...
CHA, HUD REACH ACCORD ON CONTROL
In a major breakthrough Tuesday, the Chicago Housing Authority board approved a federally proposed compromise in the long and frequently bitter battle between Mayor Harold Washington and federal housing officials...
SETTLEMENT HOPES RISE AS CHA RESUMES TALKS WITH HUD
A settlement in the long-festering dispute between federal housing officials and the Chicago Housing Authority could occur ''in the very near future'' and avert a threatened federal takeover of the...
SAVVY VAN GORKOM WADES INTO CHA MESS
Eight years ago, when Gov. James Thompson and then-Mayor Jane Byrne were wrestling with the financial collapse of the Chicago public schools, they needed a savvy but tough businessman with...
MAYOR PUTS IN PINCH HITTER FOR CHA, BUT WILL HE STRIKE OUT AGAINST HUD?
After his surprise appointment last week as managing director of the Chicago Housing Authority, Jerome Van Gorkom proclaimed, ''We have a new ballgame.'' And the truth of his statement soon...