CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago Teachers Union members started voting Wednesday on whether to authorize a strike. Teachers have until Friday to cast their ballots This is the second CTU strike authorization ...

The biggest hurdle during last month's Chicago teacher strike was the tentative deal reached by the teachers union and school district to end seven days of picketing and send kids back to class. Now ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Teachers Union has set dates for members to take a strike vote. Ballots will be cast over three days starting on December 9. The union has been in contentious contract ...

The labor fight has implications for the whole city, with billions of dollars in property taxes and other money from ...

With only several weeks of the year left, Chicago’s city council is figuring out the city’s 2026 budget. School board members ...

CHICAGO — Shifting in her chair as she sits at a long conference room table inside the Chicago Teachers Union offices, Stacy Davis Gates lets it sink in. The Chicago Teachers Union president, having ...

As a veteran elementary school teacher, union member, wife and mother of four Chicago Public Schools graduates, I have spent my life raising a family and teaching in the city that I love. I know ...

Citing data from the Illinois State Board of Education’s Illinois Report Card, the Illinois Policy Institute said 43.2% of ...

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