CHICAGO (WLS) -- Just four hours after CPS CEO Forrest Claypool said on Monday that there may be thousands of teacher layoffs in the second semester of the school year, the Chicago Teacher's Union ...

The "framework" for a deal between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union is there, now the details need to be filled in so kids can get back to school. Officials for CPS and CTU began ...

The Chicago teachers' strike may seem at first glimpse as an anomaly: a partisan Democratic mayor taking on a powerful public employees union. Organized labor has historically been one of the ...

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates is bringing her militant agenda to 200 more school districts as president ...

Some 26,000 teachers are reportedly close to coming back to work in Chicago. Negotiations are on hold today, for the Jewish New Year, but word is that the strike may soon end with the fine details ...

Most readers of this journal will have read accounts of the spirited strike by Chicago's public school teachers in September and will have learned that the generally accepted view is that the strike ...

Funeral services for iconic film critic Roger Ebert began 10 a.m. Monday morning at Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral. Ebert's ...