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Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis speaks at the City Club Tuesday, saying Chicago's wealthy "elite" are making important decisions about school closures and teacher layoffs.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker has named a veteran of President Obama's campaign operation to lead his own U.S. Senate effort.

Leaders on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are escalating the battle over the investigation into the IRS tea party targeting scandal.

In the wake of recent school closings and teacher layoffs, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis took aim Tuesday at the two R's of her education reform effort - racism and revenue.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is celebrating two important birthdays this week, and neither of them will show up on MTV.

Instead of taking a page from New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and slut-shaming teen girls into abstinence, the Chicago Department of Public Health has reframed the conversation to focus on potential teen fathers who - in keeping with the gender double standard in this patriarchal society - tend to dodge the stigma of early parenthood.

The City of Portland has selected Leah Treat to be the new Director of the Bureau of Transportation .

Chicago aldermen on Tuesday listened to environmentalists and a teenage girl make the case for banning plastic bags in city stores, but were not expected to vote on the long-discussed move that retailers argue would hurt business.

The newest piece of Chicago's vast transit puzzle will not rumble between skyscrapers on its 100-year-old elevated rail lines or utilize its fleet of hybrid buses.

McCormick Place officials Tuesday will launch their search for an architect to design a multiuse arena for DePaul University basketball, concerts and business meetings, seeking proposals that will address community fears that the project will present a blank face to its residential neighbors to the north.

After a Father's Day weekend bloodbath in which 46 people were shot and eight were killed, including one by a police officer, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy have little to show for their claims of reduced crime across the city.

Chicago's next U.S. attorney faces a dilemma sprung from the twin evils bedeviling America's third-largest city.

Chicago has experienced one of its bloodiest weekends yet under "Murder Mayor" Rahm Emanuel with 46 people shot and at least 7 dead.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to start reducing health insurance coverage next year for more than 30,000 retired city workers and begin shifting them to President Barack Obama's new federal system.

Chicago was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Second City founder Bernie Sahlins and we send our deepest condolences to his wife Jane and the entire Second City family.

Today, Mayor Emanuel announced the latest progress for Chicago's growing food truck industry after taping an appearance on the Food Network's Great Food Truck Race.

Six men are dead and at least 41 others were wounded in gun violence across the city since Friday afternoon.

Nearly 850 Chicago Public Schools employees received layoff notices Friday, hours after officials said they had identified $52 million in administrative and operational cuts to help close an estimated $1 billion deficit in the upcoming fiscal year.

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Parts of a dozen Chicago wards got free parking two weeks ahead of schedule on Sunday.