Of the 687 individuals and organizations donating to Friedman’s campaign by the start of 2026, at least 419 (61%) have made their living in finance, real estate or law, according to a WBEZ and Chicago...
The majority of Chicago school board members seem prepared to allow a charter school network in financial distress to close mid-year — something unheard of in the district and would leave more than 570 high school students in a precarious position.
The Sun-Times and WBEZ compiled the most comprehensive accounting to date by reviewing district briefings for school board members and records of letters CPS sent to families informing them about federal activity near their schools ... WBEZ and Amy Qin .
CPS officials said they did not know about Williams’ concern until WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times reached out to them ... WBEZ and the Sun-Times reached out to the teacher and principal via email but did not receive a response.
Amin’s father is one of more than 140 Asians in Illinois arrested during the second Trump administration, according to a WBEZ analysis of data obtained by the Deportation DataProject through a public records request ...Esther Yoon-Ji Kang/WBEZ.
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Calanthea Caldwell, 36, is an operating room technician at Rush University Medical Center. Her license was first suspended in 2014 when she got a ticket for driving without insurance ... Somer Van Benton/WBEZ ... Somer Van Benton/WBEZ ... Somer Van Benton/WBEZ.
I was stunned when I first saw the number. 702,617. I stared at it for several seconds, as if it might change the longer I looked ... It was only an estimate ... Columnist ... Alden Loury is data projects editor for WBEZ and writes a column for the Sun-Times ... ....
The median incomes of Chicago-area suburbs range from about $30,000 to more than $250,000, and about 19% of suburban residents in Cook and surrounding counties were born outside of the United States, according to WBEZ’s analysis.
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