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“Trying to force your will to break the spirit of working people in order to have a conversation — that’s terrorism. And we’re not going to negotiate with terrorists,” Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters at his weekly City Hall news conference.
The contract is the CTU’s first without a strike or a strike vote in 15 years. The agreement sets lower class size limits, gives pay raises and could add hundreds of new staff members.
Online registration opened at 9 a.m. and the park district suggests creating an account or double checking your email and password.
Now is the time to admire the blooms because if anything is certain, weather is unpredictable, which could affect the flowers’ full emergence.
Rick Woldenberg runs Learning Resources in Vernon Hills, which specializes in educational toys. The company makes 2,400 products in China and employs about 500 people. He says the business is reeling.
Real IDs will be required to fly domestically or enter federal facilities by May 7. The Illinois secretary of state advises people to wait to get one unless they really need it by the deadline.
Chicago was a priority for Mr. Ikenberry, who consolidated two campuses — Chicago Circle and the Medical Center — in 1982.
For 10 years in a row, Chicago has been deemed “America’s rattiest city.” Birth control is one of the latest choices for tamping down rodent populations.
From Ladypool to Leatherface, check out 20 of the best costumes we saw Saturday at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo at McCormick Place.
For the first time in 40 years, Emilio Estèvez joined Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson to reminisce about the classic film.
A former Evangelical Baptist archbishop in the small country of Georgia is behind the “Peace Cathedral,” a Christian church, a synagogue and a mosque all under one roof.
It’s like shopping at the book store for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Actor Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in the films, was in town to help launch the new store.
On Tuesday, the public can get a close-up look at the now-infamous seeds during a special viewing at the museum. In addition, the Field is also spotlighting its exhibit on dire wolves, which also made news this week.
Lisa Duarte, now a high-profile lobbyist, says she’s a victim of Jawad Fakroune, who’s accused of shaking down a Lincoln Park restaurateur, but won’t say why she paid nearly $20K in property taxes on a Lemont estate where Fakroune lived that was raided by FBI.
Ashbey Beasley, an activist who witnessed the 2022 mass shootings in Highland Park, posted a video on Instagram showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the door of a suburban resident’s home.
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