Preliminary enrollment data for the 2024-2025 school year show a less than 1% uptick in enrollment. The biggest increase is ...

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With 40 days until the election, Illinois residents can vote early at their local county clerks’ office. Vote-by-mail ballots ...

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Illinois is famous for machine politics and machine bosses such as Mike Madigan, Richard J. Daley and Ed Burke. In Chicago, the machine has been changing, spurred by the void left by Illinois ...

This episode of The Policy Shop is by writer Patrick Andriesen Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign pledge to end the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system has come to fruition. The city’s contract ...

Chicago led the state in mass layoffs, accounting for more than one-third of job cuts in August. The statewide data shows 93% ...