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Firefighters union wary of expanded school security role
With city officials calling on firefighters to help monitor students displaced by school closings as they travel to their new schools, the firefighters union has raised concerns that its members could be caught in the middle of street violence without...
Tags: Chicago Fire Department, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Tall Ships Chicago returns to Navy Pier in August
Tribune reporterFourteen majestic sailing vessels will glide into Navy Pier in August for the return of a beloved festival that now includes a competition with sailors from around the world. Tall Ships Chicago 2013 will be held from Aug. 7 to Aug. 11 on the lakefront...Tags: Festive Events, United States Naval Academy, Arts and Culture, Navy Pier, Sailing
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Lindblom school closed for day after meningitis death
Lindblom Math and Science Academy will be closed Wednesday following the death of a student from bacterial meningitis, Chicago Public Schools officials announced late Tuesday. A 16-year-old student was found dead at home on Monday, apparently of a form...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Meningitis
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School in Prague to be named after Mayor Cermak
Eighty years ago, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was assassinated, an anniversary that some, like Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, say does not receive enough attention. But on Thursday, a school in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, will remember Cermak by...
Tags: Assassinations, Czech Republic, Edward M. Burke, Chicago Mayor, Local Elections
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Payton, Brooks finally play ball in show of solidarity
Tribune reporterAlberto Reyes looked across the well-kept field at Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep during pregame warm-up drills Saturday evening and declared it a beautiful place for a baseball game. Two weeks after their originally scheduled game, players and coaches...Tags: Baseball, Walter Payton, Sports, High School Sports, College Baseball
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Got diet milk?
In the face of troubling childhood obesity rates and what it sees as low milk consumption rates, the dairy industry says it has a solution: Offer kids flavored milk that uses low-calorie artificial sweeteners. The only problem, industry...
Tags: Nutrition, Family, Consumers, Consumer Goods Industries, Elgin
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Hearing officers criticize CPS plans
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push to shut 53 city elementary schools ran into an unexpected buzz saw of criticism Tuesday from hearing officers hired to vet the process, with several raising doubts about the wisdom of the proposals and recommending against 13...
Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Students, Chicago Police Department, Near North Side
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Hearing officers oppose 13 of closings planned by CPS
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s push to shut 53 city elementary schools ran into an unexpected buzz saw of criticism Tuesday from hearing officers hired to vet the process, with several raising doubts about the wisdom of the proposals and recommending...
Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Students, Chicago Police Department, Near North Side
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Tick ... tick ... tick ...
The latest headache for Chicago Public Schools officials: Independent hearing officers oppose efforts to close about a quarter of the 53 elementary schools that are on the block. In hearings over the past weeks, the officers took testimony from school...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Teaching and Learning, Judges, Students, Health and Safety at School
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Voice of the People, May. 10
Union business This is in response to "My challenge to Karen Lewis" (Perspective, April 26), by Tanya Saunders-Wolffe, a counselor at Jesse Owens Community Academy on the Far South Side. Why is the Chicago Tribune newspaper a venue for proselytizing...Tags: Education, Teachers, Chicago Tribune, Jesse Owens, Teaching and Learning
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Surprised? I am
Change of SubjectStory: Independent hearing officers are opposing 14 of the school closings proposed by Chicago Public Schools officials, citing safety concerns and the district's failure to show students would be going to better schools The cynic in me thought the... -
Emanuel's Chicagoness an issue to many
Rahm Emanuel is a North Shore-bred millionaire who trained as a ballet dancer and vacations in Vietnam. It's part of the back story to his hard-charging, ran-the-White-House public persona. It's also an image, perhaps, that has led a majority of...
Tags: Baseball, Chicago White Sox, Sports, Public Transportation, Barack Obama
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