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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Adult education teachers at City Colleges deserve a new contract

Chicago Sun-Times 20 Nov 2024
I am an Adult Education teacher at City Colleges of Chicago ... Yet adult educators and students are an important and integral part of Chicago ... equitable employment contract supports our diverse communities in Chicago. Jeannette Hoyt, adult education teacher, City Colleges of Chicago....
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Chicago schools contract fight complicated by Trump’s planned education cuts

People's World 20 Nov 2024
So the Chicago Teachers Union/AFT Local 1, which was a trailblazer for other teachers unions—in both AFT and the National Education Association—under its late and lauded President Karen Lewis, apparently will take the lead again, this time tangling with Donald Trump....
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Spend money to learn about money

Hong Kong Standard 20 Nov 2024
First is "Empowerment through financial education," offering an age-appropriate and culturally relevant curriculum, developed with reference to research findings from the University of Chicago Financial Education Initiative ......
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Chicago seen as safe haven for homeless youth in uncertain climate: ‘I wouldn’t trade it ...

Chicago Tribune 20 Nov 2024
Last month, Chicago and Cook County officials, advocates and social service providers initiated a 2½-year planning process to overhaul their approach for this age group ... Despite how much the pair still needs to manage, from health care to education to making friends, they said they’d rather be figuring it out in Chicago than anywhere else....
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Chicago seen as safe haven for homeless youth in uncertain climate

Journal Gazette 20 Nov 2024
CAROLINE KUBZANSKY Chicago Tribune. CHICAGO — Bri Johnson’s ambition is hard to miss ... Ramsey, originally from West Virginia, had been in Chicago for a year as of Oct ... Despite how much the pair still needs to manage, from health care to education to making friends, they said they’d rather be figuring it out in Chicago than anywhere else....
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The Original Black’s BBQ Teacher of the Week

Lockhart Post-Register 20 Nov 2024
Name and grade you teach and at which school. Juliana Riecss; 6-8 Lockhart Juior High band. Hometown. Austin. Where did you graduate? “I graduated from West Texas A&M, Bachelor’s of Music Education and received my Master’s of Music Education from VanderCook College of Music in Chicago, Illinois.” ... Favorite Books ... Favorite Music ... Hobbies ... .......
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Feds charge a tech CEO, chosen by LAUSD to create an AI, in $10 million scheme

LA Daily News 20 Nov 2024
Though one of the firm’s biggest investors “recruited high profile” education leaders to the company’s board of directors, including former Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson, the indictment notes that Smith-Griffin “exercised exclusive control” over AllHere’s communications with investors, board members, customers and outside vendors....
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Protests Rock Senate Office Building Ahead of Vote on U.S. Military Aid to Israel

Democracy Now 20 Nov 2024
Protesters led by Jewish Voice for Peace wore red T-shirts demanding education, housing, healthcare and jobs, “not genocide.”. Separately, in Chicago, more than a dozen Jewish peace activists were arrested as they nonviolently blocked escalators and elevators to shut ......
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Texas offers 1,400-acre ranch to Trump to use as part of mass deportation plan

Usatoday 20 Nov 2024
citizens, in a roundup from California to Chicago ... Chicago's Board of Education passed a resolution reaffirming its commitment to protecting immigrant students of varying legal status, while New York City's immigrant affairs commissioner vowed the city will uphold its sanctuary laws protecting immigrants....
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Jews struggle with how to react to seeing keffiyehs in public

Jewish Telegraph Agency 20 Nov 2024
According to a recent investigation published by the left-wing magazine In These Times, two staffers at an early education center run by Mishkan Chicago, a progressive Jewish congregation, said they were disciplined after wearing keffiyehs to work....
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Home Tutoring in Chicago: Job Opportunities Await Passionate Educators with Expertise in Special Education, STEM, ...

GetNews 19 Nov 2024
Meeting the rising demand for individualized educational support, Chicago Home Tutor is expanding its team of specialized educators, offering highly personalized, one-on-one tutoring in Chicago for students from pre-K to the 12th grade, making a lasting difference in students' lives by turning challenges into achievements....
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City envisions transforming vacant South Side bank building into $80 million recording complex

Chicago Tribune 19 Nov 2024
The vacant former Stock Yards National Bank building near the historic site of the Union Stock Yards on the South Side will become an $80 million recording complex under a new renovation proposal selected by the Chicago Department of Planning and Development. Chicago nonprofit Third Coast Music envisions transforming the landmark building at 4120 S....
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THE Rankings 2024: Top 5 Business and Economics Colleges in the U.S

The Times of India 19 Nov 2024
The institution’s teaching quality is rated at 87.2, and its international outlook stands at 86.4, reflecting its global reach and influence in higher education.University of ChicagoThe University of Chicago ranks highly in various academic categories, particularly in research quality, with a score of 97.4....

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