1+ hour, 32+ min ago  (185+ words) Chicago Tribune Parents sit in tiny chairs in their children's classroom to listen to the teacher talk during a parent orientation at Naper School held in September 1998. Classrooms may look a little different these days but the practice of parents…...

3+ hour, 45+ min ago  (743+ words) Ela Township's "peace pole" " etched with the word "peace" in 60 different languages " has become the center of community strife. At Wednesday's Committee of the Whole meeting, about a dozen residents voiced support for the peace pole and more than 30 emails…...

8+ hour, 17+ min ago  (261+ words) Tents line the sidewalk on North Sacramento Avenue in Chicago, private sleeping quarters abutting the public way. Park space is designed intentionally for recreation, with thought given to accessibility and novelty. The problem with tents in public space is that…...

3+ hour, 30+ min ago  (715+ words) There's something extra noteworthy about a green festival breathing renewed life into a long-empty building. After sitting unused for five years, the nearly 100-year-old former Aurora Post Office in the city's downtown will be buzzing again from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. on Saturday…...

3+ hour, 44+ min ago  (611+ words) Chicago Tribune We're all for keeping cyclists as safe as possible and thus the provision of separated bike lanes and broader sidewalks and midstreet refuges on many of our city's arteries. We'd love to see more people walking and biking…...

4+ hour, 3+ min ago  (997+ words) Chicago has known this before. For all the debate about the years of Richard J. and Richard M. Daley, there was a clear expectation: The basics would be delivered. Streets were cleaned. Lights worked. You didn't have to agree with the politics…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (284+ words) School voucher measures are bubbling to the surface in Illinois, so it's important we remember the history of how these programs came to be. Recently, the Chicago Board of Education considered a resolution to encourage Gov. JB Pritzker and the…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (422+ words) As college decision day approaches May 1, thousands of Illinois students are deciding where they'll go. For many, one school stands out: the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. With a more competitive admissions landscape than ever, students need every possible advantage to…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (15+ words) Courtney Vandersloot hopes to rebuild the Chicago Sky's championship identity after a tumultuous offseason that. .....

6+ mon, 1+ day ago  (291+ words) That absence is what drives my column. For decades, I've written about the real people who sit in the classrooms, fill out the applications, and fight to make sense of the world that older generations built for them. Students " whether…...