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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Middle School Student Makes Important Biomedical Discovery In Goose Poop

IFL Science 13 Dec 2024
The team partnered with Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, which allowed them to engage with middle schoolers as part of a 14-week applied science program ... However, a team from the University of Illinois at Chicago, led by Brian Murphy, has established a partnership that engages such groups at an early stage in their educational development....
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Daywatch: Want to be Cook County’s first married couple of 2025?

Chicago Tribune 13 Dec 2024
Mateo Temple, 4, watches a program on a phone as his mother, Anita Guaman, left, a teacher, listens to speakers during a Board of Education monthly meeting at a Chicago Public Schools administrative office at 4655 S ... Chicago Public Schools officials presented a new plan to ......
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New member joins CPS board for heated debate over Acero school closures

Chicago Tribune 13 Dec 2024
Chicago Public Schools officials presented a new plan to potentially absorb seven Acero schools slated ... “Let’s embrace this historic election, and let’s embrace one another and let’s move forward in a new era of education for Chicago Public Schools,” Smith said....
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No response from Acero charter school leaders on planned school closures

Chicago Tribune 12 Dec 2024
Perkoski sent a letter to the Board of Education’s general counsel two days later demanding board members cease and desist communications that are “false, misleading, and defamatory — not to mention unproductive given the seriousness of the situation that Acero is earnestly addressing with Chicago Public Schools administrators.”....
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Afternoon Briefing: What to know about tonight’s Chicago Board of Education meeting

Chicago Tribune 12 Dec 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. The Board of Education overseeing Chicago Public Schools is scheduled to meet tonight for their monthly meeting ... Check back for live updates from Tribune education reporters Sarah Macaraeg and Nell Salzman after the rally has begun ... Chicago Bears Q&A....
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What to know about tonight’s Chicago Board of Education meeting: CTU to rally before contract discussion

Chicago Tribune 12 Dec 2024
The Board of Education overseeing Chicago Public Schools is scheduled to meet Thursday evening for their monthly meeting ... Whether ongoing political tension over the Chicago Teachers Union contract negotiations will come to a head remains to be seen....
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'Shame on you!' Acero Charter community tells charter leaders

Chicago Sun-Times 12 Dec 2024
Dozens of students, teachers, parents, staff and Chicago Teachers Union members attended a rally outside Acero Idar Elementary School ahead of the board meeting ... The schools primarily serve Latino students, and these would be the largest school closings ever in Chicago’s Latino communities, affecting 2,000 students....
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Report finds Illinois better prepared for recession than in recent past

Commercial News 12 Dec 2024
The Chicago area saw 0.3% growth and made gains in the private education and health services sector, but lost hospitality jobs ... Replenishing the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund after the pandemic, increasing investments in public education, passing an infrastructure ......
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Daywatch: $4.2 million in unpaid wages

Chicago Tribune 11 Dec 2024
Kim/Chicago Tribune) Training for newly-elected Board of Education members postponed without explanation. Some newly elected school board members told the Tribune that next week’s training sessions — scheduled to prepare them to join the Chicago Board of Education — were abruptly postponed without explanation....
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Another strain of mpox has arrived in the US. How is Chicago preparing?

Chicago Tribune 11 Dec 2024
Weekly cases of mpox, the virus formerly known as monkeypox, have remained in the single digits in Chicago this year ... But in Chicago, efforts to vaccinate vulnerable populations and educate them about mpox have remained in place ... (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune) ... (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)....
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CPS School Board is not expected to act on CEO Pedro Martinez’s contract on Thursday

Chicago Sun-Times 11 Dec 2024
The Board of Education has not scheduled a vote to fire or otherwise push out Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez this week, which threatens to prolong the drama around his job status through the holidays and into the new year ... Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Teachers Union have been taking steps to push out Martinez for months....
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Cheyenne 50 Years Ago

Cheyenne Star 11 Dec 2024
... won a $1,000 scholarship, the highest educational award made at the National 4-H Convention which was held in Chicago last week....

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