Alice Yin, Nell Salzman

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration said Tuesday his latest pension payment and borrowing plan for Chicago Public Schools is imminently needed to avert a city budget deficit, the latest twist in his struggle with CPS leadership over the fate of the […]

As early returns in Tuesday’s first school board election signaled an underwhelming performance by the Chicago Teachers Union, its President Stacy Davis Gates addressed a roomful of supporters with a fiery message. “I don’t care how powerful they try to