Valparaiso Community Schools Superintendent Jim McCall and Chief Finance Officer Jim Holifield are ready to lead the January start of the new year with an approved $100 million 2025 budget that was passed by the Valparaiso City Council unanimously, including 3% salary increases for staff and administration.
The Geneva Park District is offering a new family-friendly holiday lights display at Peck Farm Park through Jan. 1.
It was “Jewell Loyd Day” in Lincolnwood Wednesday as the Village Board paid tribute to the standout WNBA basketball player, Olympic gold medalist, local homegirl and Niles Wiles High School alumnae. “Jewell Loyd serves as a role model for hard work, determination, and community service, embodying the spirit of Lincolnwood,” reads the proclamation approved by the board and presented to the Seattle Storm guard at the board meeting. The proclamation offers a summary of Loyd’s, 31, career successes, including on the Niles West girls basketball team where she was a starter beginning her freshman year and garnered All-Conference honors. She […]
Sen. Shelli Yoder will replace Sen. Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis, as Senate minority leader after the public learned about three more women who accused Taylor of sexual misconduct.
A leaked Chicago City Hall memo shows Mayor Brandon Johnson wanted Chicago Public Schools Chief Pedro Martinez out in September.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability on Thursday released bodyworn camera footage of an October shootout between CPD officers and a suspect in West Rogers Park.
Quarterback Luke Lehnen of North Central College is the offensive player of the year and first-team quarterback on The Associated Press Division III All-America team announced Thursday.
Jamming through CTU’s financially ruinous contract before Chicago’s partially elected school board is seated is an affront to democracy.
A man was sentenced to 62 years Thursday for killing an expectant father in a road confrontation as they drove on 165th Street.
Disrupting Chicago Public Schools now jeopardizes administrative continuity and the sense of normalcy that students and teachers need.