More than 100 teachers left struggling students, cost taxpayers as much as $19,300 for Chicago Teachers Union “lobby day.” ...

Chicago Teachers Union members were encouraged to skip class to lobby state lawmakers during the veto session. Politics over ...

Chicago Teachers Union leader Stacy Davis Gates defends public schools and Black families against Trump's attacks.

Neither will say. But the Illinois Federation of Teachers labor organization that Gates recently was chosen to oversee — ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is threatening service cuts, layoffs and property tax hikes if aldermen reject his proposed ...

The mayor’s head tax would impose a $21-per-worker monthly tax on businesses with 100 employees or more, although there have ...

For far too long, Chicago’s budgets have been balanced on the backs of working people. The 2026 budget changes that equation.

The longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers and leading Democratic Party figure is incapable of presenting ...

In Illinois, the Chicago Teachers Union won a contract with the city’s schools to add solar panels on some buildings and clean energy career pathways for students, among other actions. In Minnesota, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago alderman confronted Governor JB Pritzker at a Veterans Day ceremony on Tuesday over his opposition ...

CHICAGO — Shifting in her chair as she sits at a long conference room table inside the Chicago Teachers Union offices, Stacy Davis Gates lets it sink in. The Chicago Teachers Union president, having ...

Among the report’s list of options was “Bring Chicago Home” — a proposed quadrupling of the city’s existing tax on real estate sales above $1 million in order to fund programs and organizations ...