CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

In Chicago public schools that adopted a stock inhaler program, more students who used a stock inhaler for asthma symptoms ...

The district is bringing in the Metropolitan Family Services to help relaunch the program and oversee nonprofits that will ...

Gun violence, school closures — and now, deportation threats. Schools are no longer secure and welcoming spaces for students and families. Who will fight to change that?

The Municipal Employees‘ Annuity & Benefit Fund of Chicago is not a phrase that exactly trips off the tongue. But the pension plan covering the retirements of a hodgepodge of workers with the city of ...

A Chicago non-profit received $25 million in funding Thursday to lead a previously discontinued violence-prevention program ...

Former foes appear to be putting Chicago Democratic politics aside to help Johnson prepare for a Republican-led hearing.

A School Board vote in December had spared seven Acero schools from closure for a year and promised to absorb five of them in ...

The Chicgao Public Schools board voted Thursday to approve an amended plan to keep five Acero schools open next school year. Two Acero schools, Paz and Cruz, will close at the end of this year.

Brian Metcalf, who led the charter network from July 2019 through December 2022, pleaded guilty to two of the nine counts of ...

Joseph Smith (left) conducts the choir at Wendell Phillips High School in Douglas, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. Alumni of the Phillips Choir got together once again to perform at the Black History Month ...

One of Chicago’s 13 observed city holidays takes place Monday, March 3: Casimir Pulaski Day, which means some business will be closed.