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Sun-Times file photo The Chicago Board of Education renewed contracts for 35 charter and contract schools on Wednesday, issuing shorter term lengths than in the past and new conditions for continued approval as part of an ongoing effort to demand greater accountability from the city’s 120 charter school campuses. A majority of these schools, which […]

President Donald Trump looks at his phone during a White House conference in June 2020. He was banned from Facebook on Jan. 7, 2021, for praising people who participated in the insurrection at the Capitol the day before. AP Photos Facebook parent Meta is reinstating former President Donald Trump’s personal account, ending a two-year suspension it imposed in […]

Sun-Times file A man was found shot to death Wednesday evening in Chatham on the South Side. About 6:10 p.m., officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 900 block of East 81st Street and found a man, 42, with a gunshot wound in his back, Chicago police said. The man was […]

Southwest Airlines says its holiday schedule was “thoughtfully designed.” The airline blames an unprecedented storm for causing operations disruptions and pledges to cooperate with the Transportation Department’s probe. AP Photos DALLAS — The U.S. Transportation Department said Wednesday that it is investigating whether Southwest Airlines deceived customers by knowingly scheduling more flights in late December […]

Tyler Massengill acknowledged setting a fire at a Peoria Planned Parenthood office, telling investigators that his then-girlfriend had had an abortion at the clinic three years before and it upset him. AP Photos CHICAGO — A central Illinois man was charged Wednesday with setting fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic earlier this month, federal law […]

There’s broad agreement the state test elementary students take each spring needs an overhaul, but advocates worry time is running out to change it. Here, students at Darwin Elementary School in Chicago work on a diagnostic test last fall. Manuel Martinez / WBEZ file photo A coalition of teachers unions, advocates and parents’ groups are […]

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (left) in the Greektown neighborhood in December; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (right) in Las Vegas in November. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times-file; John Locher/AP-file Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is going to battle with the national College Board over what he calls “political grandstanding” by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Chicago Democrat is warning the nonprofit […]

Moon Alert There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Aries. Aries (March 21-April 19) For the next four weeks, you’ll be more interested in mystical, spiritual subjects. You also might have to care for a loved one, either at home or in a hospital. Others might be involved with […]

Bicyclists ride in the bike lanes on Milwaukee Avenue near California Avenue in Logan Square, Sept. 14, 2020. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Every day, tens of thousands of suburban residents drive cars to Chicago for our city’s cultural attractions, civic institutions, jobs and more. Those cars degrade the streets, air, safety and mobility of the people who […]

Chicago police work the scene where five people were shot, two fatally in an apartment in the 7800 block of South Exchange Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood on Monday. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Time When a gunman with a weapon of war stormed into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and gunned down 20 […]

Andrew will be designated new accommodation in London, it’s thought (Picture: PA) The Duke of York has been banned from using his suite of rooms at Buckingham Palace and will never return, a new report claims. Prince Andrew is said to have brought model girlfriends back to the digs and slept with a teddy bear […]

Barbara Bolton, 87, died on January 5 at Fairfield Hospial (Picture: Google Street View) An 87-year-old who ‘couldn’t afford’ surging energy bills died after developing hypothermia, an inquest has heard. Paramedics in Manchester rushed to Barbara Bolton, a well-liked widow and mother, on December 1. She was admitted to Fairfield Hospital with hypothermia and a chest infection […]

A book publishing insider thinks Virginia Giuffre’s book could be released just weeks before King Charles’s coronation (Picture: PA / Getty Images) It is thought Virginia Giuffre could release a book just weeks before King Charles’s coronation takes place. Ms Giuffre – who was then known as Virginia Roberts before she married – made a […]

Paul Maurice, 52, told police his son Sean Maurice, 31, was responsible as he lay dying in Bromley, south-east London (Picture: PA) A man has been jailed for 10 years for killing his father who he claims sexually abused him. Sean Maurice, 31, admitted manslaughter but was acquitted of murder after knifing Paul Maurice, 52, […]