Chicago

Chicago (i/ʃˈkɑːɡ/ or /ʃˈkɔːɡ/) is the third most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwest. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S. Chicago is the seat of Cook County.

Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. The city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation: O'Hare International Airport is the busiest airport in the world when measured by aircraft traffic; it also has the largest number of U.S. highways and rail road freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranked seventh in the world in the 2014 Global Cities Index.As of 2014, Chicago had the third largest gross metropolitan product in the United States at US$610.5 billion.

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‘This is Jason’s city’: Padres will follow new teammate Heyward during Chicago off day

San Diego Union-Tribune 03 Apr 2025
Veteran outfielder Jason Heyward invited the team to tour the Jason Heyward Baseball Academy on Thursday in Chicago ahead of the Padres’ three-game series against the Cubs ... Now in its third year, the Academy is housed inside a 150,000-square-foot community center located a 10-acre plot of land in an underserved neighborhood on Chicago’s west side....
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Trail-blazing Chicago Teachers’ contract includes protections vs. Trump edicts

People's World 03 Apr 2025
Dianne Crawford, an early childhood education teacher ... But the union predicted the pact “charts a new direction of investment, expansion of sustainable community and dual language schools, increased staffing, and a focus on reparatory equity to provide the educational experience Chicago students deserve no matter what neighborhood they live in.” ....
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Lawmakers polishing plan to lure professional sports team to Northwest Indiana

The Indiana Times 03 Apr 2025
State Rep. Earl Harris Jr., D-East Chicago, said the goal is to promote economic development, create jobs, attract tourists and improve educational opportunities ... ....
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Harvard Discriminated Against Me and Other Jews. Trump Is Right To Threaten Its Funding.

The Harvard Crimson 03 Apr 2025
Indeed, the Universities of Vanderbilt, Chicago, Dartmouth, and others have remained clear of the Department of Education’s investigations, not due to any particular political favor but because they seem to consistently enforce internal school policies and comply with federal obligations under law ... Neither the Trump campaign nor I minced words ... ....
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Chicago School District Agrees to Minimum 16% Teacher Pay Raise

Hindustan Times 02 Apr 2025
Chicago Teachers Union’s leadership will seek approval from its House of Delegates and then its full membership, after which Martinez will advance the contract to the board of education for sign off ... Pedro Martinez Education Chicago Us News ... News / Education / education news / Chicago School District Agrees to Minimum 16% Teacher Pay Raise....
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Wisconsin votes to enshrine voter ID requirement in state constitution

The Call 02 Apr 2025
Wisconsin is the only state where voters elect the top education official but there is no state board of education ... Underly’s education career began in 1999 as a high school social studies teacher in Indiana ... She worked for almost 10 years as a special education teacher and instructional coach in Chicago Public Schools....
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Wisconsin superintendent election results: Incumbent Jill Underly defeats Brittany Kinser

Oshkosh Northwestern 02 Apr 2025
State Superintendent Jill Underly won a second term in Tuesday’s election, defeating Republican Party-backed education consultant Brittany Kinser ... Her career began as a Chicago Public Schools special education teacher, then moved into charter school administrative work ... Kelly Meyerhofer covers higher education in Wisconsin....
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Dan Walters | The real crisis in California schools is low achievement, not cultural conflicts

Times Standard 02 Apr 2025
A few days ago, the Washington Post published an article by Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago and chief of staff to President Barack Obama, about the neglect of educational achievement. Emanuel called it a “Sputnik moment in education” and declared that “almost no one among the nation’s purported adults seems to want to solve the problem.”....
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Kanye West and the story of Donda Academy’s spectacular spiral

The Los Angeles Times 02 Apr 2025
The enterprise was conceived in homage to his mother, Donda West, a respected educator (she had chaired the English department at Chicago State University) and arguably the most seminal influence and corrective force in her son’s life until she died of coronary disease and complications following cosmetic surgery in 2007....
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Randy Fine overcomes fundraising deficit to win congressional race

News Journal - Daytona Beach 02 Apr 2025
On Tuesday, Randy Fine woke up without a job for the first time in more than eight years. On Wednesday, though, that gap in employment will cease, as he was elected to Florida's 6th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives ... Department of Education, saying what works in Chicago might not be what’s best for Florida or Oklahoma ... “......
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Shingles vaccine may protect against dementia, new study suggests

NBC Bay Area 02 Apr 2025
Watch NBC Bay Area News 📺 Streaming free 24/7 ... Shingrex, which targets a tiny bit of viral DNA, turned out to have a longer lasting effect than the original vaccine ... 2, 1933, but not those who were born before that date ... Aarati Didwania, a professor of medicine and medical education at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago ... ....
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CTU contract is a 'turning point' that will help CPS students get the education they deserve

Chicago Sun-Times 01 Apr 2025
Every time educators negotiate with CPS, at least since Karen and then Jesse Sharkey and now myself, have led our union, we have fought to bring dignity to our profession, and we have fought harder to deliver the quality education that Chicago’s students deserve....

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