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'I'm not done,' CPS union chief says a year after cancer diagnosis

A year after a sudden cancer diagnosis, Karen Lewis told the Chicago Sun-Times on Tuesday that she plans to seek a third term in May as the boisterous leader of the city's teachers union.

"I'm not done," she said at the Chicago Teachers Union's headquarters. "I think we need to make CPS a much better place for kids and for the adults that work with them. And we can do that if we work collectively and work together."

She hopes that before that union election, members will have a contract to replace the one that expired June 30.

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