Chicago Tribune
Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune reporter After a seven-day strike and heated negotiations over a new contract, Chicago teachers will begin voting on the tentative agreement within two weeks. Teachers will cast ballots at their schools Oct. 2, then the...
Chicago Tribune
Clout Street The truncated Taste of Chicago will return largely unchanged in 2013, even though Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration says it still doesn't know whether this year's edition of the annual pig-out broke even. The city again plans to make...
SF Gate
The end of the Chicago teachers strike means students are back on athletic fields. Chicago Public Schools said Friday that interscholastic prep sports programs have resumed after the strike ended Tuesday and teachers returned to class on Wednesday.
Education News
Chicago teachers will vote October 2 on whether to approve a contract with the nation's third-largest public school district following their first strike in 25 years, school and union officials said on Friday. Some 350,000 kindergarten, elementary...