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CPS is offering universal pre-K for 4-year-olds in most of the city, but WBEZ found that thousands of seats are unfilled — mostly in schools serving high numbers of low-income families with large majorities of Black or Latino children.

Prosecutors described the content of Paul Pickerill's communication with Vicki Bevan as 'extremely distressing'

CHICAGO — As the Carl Schurz High School students passed under the school’s brown iron gates Thursday morning, community members greeted them with doughnuts and flowers outside the Northwest Side school, a day after a shooting that left four teens wounded, including two Schurz students.

The uneventful and under-the-radar settlement of this year’s deal comes as a sigh of relief for educators and families.