Articles filed under Chicago Sun-Times
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CPS board, watchdog spar over test 'irregularities'Feb 26, 2020 10:00 pm - Days after Chicago Public Schools officials agreed to overhaul their standardized testing procedures, Board of Education members grilled the inspector general whose repo...
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Chicago police set to revamp controversial gang databaseFeb 26, 2020 10:00 pm - The Chicago Police Department is set to unveil plans to upgrade and remodel its controversial gang database. The Criminal Enterprise Information System will launch in th...
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Lightfoot delivers tough-love anti-crime message: Young people, 'put down the guns,' and adults, 'be better'Feb 23, 2020 10:00 pm - Mayor Lori Lightfoot implored young people to put down the guns - and urged their parents to secure their weapons and pay attention to their kids - after the previous we...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Lisel Mueller, who wrote from Lake County, diesFeb 22, 2020 12:00 am - Lisel Mueller fled Germany at 15 and came to America, where she wrote in her poem "Curriculum Vitae": "In the new language everyone spoke too fast. Eventually I caught u...
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Lightfoot pressured on police accountabilityFeb 20, 2020 10:00 pm - Two years ago, Lori Lightfoot demanded that then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel empower a civilian oversight board to fire the police superintendent and establish police policy. Now...
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Schools sue Berrios relative over parking feesFeb 20, 2020 10:00 pm - A son-in-law of former Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios is being sued by the Chicago Public Schools, which says he failed to pay "no less than" $366,000 under deals t...
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Madigan, top allies named in new federal subpoenaFeb 19, 2020 12:00 am - House Speaker Michael Madigan and several of his closest political allies are named in a new federal subpoena seeking records on a former ComEd lobbyist and his consulti...
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Tax-free ride to end for Chicagoans who order bottled water, liquor online from outside cityFeb 18, 2020 10:00 pm - The tax-free ride is about to end for Chicagoans who pay less by ordering cases of water and booze for delivery to their homes and businesses. Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants...
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Guns, ammo confiscated from car at United Center before NBA All-Star GameFeb 17, 2020 10:00 pm - Authorities confiscated weapons and ammunition from a car at the United Center on Sunday before the start of the NBA All-Star Game. A 2019 black Yukon Denali drove into ...
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Pritzker plans $147 million boost for DCFSFeb 17, 2020 12:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker's second-year budget will include a $147 million increase in funding for DCFS to boost staffing and increase support for investigations. The Democrati...