Four Chicago Public Schools are no longer up for closing this year, a fifth wouldn’t close until next year and a sixth school would be spared from the staff reboot known as a turnaround, the Chicago Sun-Times learned Tuesday. CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett is expected to withdraw her recommendations to shutter Marcus Garvey; Mahalia Jackson, Leif Ericson and George Manierre, according to a source familiar with her deliberations. Read More
- News Blog: Interactive School Closure Map
- News blog: CPS closing list by race, location
- SPECIAL COVERAGE: The Final Bell
- GRAPHIC: Four schools on closing list saved
- LIVE COVERAGE: Live-blog of hearing and updated map of closings
- SPECIAL REPORT: Kohn students would pass many vacant homes on path to Lavizzo
- SPECIAL REPORT: If Marconi closes, students will have to walk past drug dealers on way to Tilton
- SPECIAL REPORT: CPS closings create school zone, danger zone
- List of school programs to be closed
- CTU files civil-rights lawsuits over school closings
- Editorial: The hollow promise of a better school
- Editorial: What a ‘half-empty’ school really looks like
- Sunny news for staff, parents at schools taken off closing list
- Pickets, chanting begin long before vote on school closings
Bears great Brian Urlacher announces retirement
Updated: 2013-05-22 10:39:13
Bears great Brian Urlacher announced his retirement from football on Wednesday. ‘It was an honor to play my entire career for the @ChicagoBears,’ Urlacher tweeted. …Read More
News
- Four Chicago Public Schools saved from closing list; fate of remaining schools up for vote today
- Black Illinois House members split on gay marriage bill, Sun-Times survey finds
- Lawyers seek Arlington burial for Chicago mobster Sam Volpendesto
- Emanuel says he’s not worried about political heat from school closings
- Senate committee OKs immigration bill
- Emanuel says he’s not worried about political heat from school closings
- Homeowners receive nearly $2B in foreclosure settlement
Sports
05/22/2013 at 10:33AM
More Sports- Sergio Garcia ‘fried chicken’ comment draws Tiger Woods’ ire
- Blackhawks have to figure out how to play like the Blackhawks
- Reinsdorf to family: When I die, sell White Sox, keep Bulls
- Briggs testing his voice with new Bears and no Urlacher
- Garza shines in return, but bullpen scuffs up save in loss
- NU women’s lacrosse and its title collection border on unbelievable
- Guilty plea in slashing death of Chicago Bears fan in Florida bar
Business
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- US home sales tick up to highest in 3 ½ years
- Restaurant learns online reviews can make or break
- Target’s 1Q profit drops 26 pct on weak sales
- US auto factories cutting back on summer downtime
- Futures rise; all eyes on the Fed
- Volkswagen to put special fuel caps on diesels
- Obama opposes bill on Keystone XL oil pipeline
Entertainment
05/22/2013 at 09:44AM
More Entertainment- Justin Bieber booed because he’s ‘a whiner,’ music insider says
- Chief Keef arrested in Georgia hotel after staff smells marijuana
- Taking to the air on the highest trapeze in Chicago
- Daft Punk strives to return life to dance music with new album
- ‘Company of Men’ hauntingly disturbing, yet irresistible
- Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson split seems permanent this time
- Seth MacFarlane: I won’t be Oscar host in 2014
Lifestyles
05/21/2013 at 10:08AM
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- Sara Kerastas on how “What’s The T?” confronts conflicts in Boystown
- Sky’s the limit for Frankfort fireworks company
- Too much house is too much work
- Time to move on from dead-end relationship
- What do we eat? New food map will tell us
- Author of ‘Lyle, Lyle Crocodile’ dies
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