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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 27, 2021 Contact: Catherine Murrell, 312-523-3882  The following was released by SEIU Healthcare Illinois Presi...

TOKYO (AP) — Nagasaki on Monday marked the 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city with its mayor urging Japan, the...

The richest 5 percent of households in Illinois have average incomes 14.6 times as large as the bottom 20 percent of households and 4.9 time...

Two weeks ago, the battle was raging over cops in the schools. Who should decide whether Chicago schools get to keep or lose their SRO --...

Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has flown for more than 120 ...

Florida bars empty out as the state's COVID cases top 10,000. 10M globally.  FL reported 9,585 new corona cases yesterday, exceeding...

Right-wing, anti-stay-at-home protest in Chicago as COVID-19 cases top 96K with over 4K deaths in IL. ALL IN THIS TOGETHER? -- IL Repub...

Hilarious excuse Trump gave for not wearing a mask at the mask factory in Arizona. “I can’t help it if you didn’t see me wearing one....

Biden campaign has a new podcast. Is that it? With only 7 months to go in the campaign, it's not so much that Joe Biden has disappe...

According to today's Washington Post-ABC poll , Trump and Biden are running neck-and-neck. One can only wonder how big a lead Biden ...

Students at Chicago's Little Village Academy as CPS school ordered closed.  "The system is not really geared to what we need r...

Crain's begs Amazon: "Come to Chicago. We have plenty of low-paid workers here." Last year we defeated the Rahm/Rahner pl...

Acero teachers in Chicago won the first charter school strike in U.S. history last year. (Labor Notes pic) Congratulations to all of u...

There's hope that CEO Jackson, once liberated from Rahm's self-serving, autocratic rule, will become a real change leader.  Even...

Students from Chicago High School for the Arts cheer striking teachers. Carlene Carpenter, Chicago charter school teacher “We’ve been...

With the first round of the mayoral election only a week away, things are starting to get hot and heavy. Progressives are split at least...

  Toni Preckwinkle and Bill Daley on board with Bezos.  ...bringing Amazon to town will probably cost untold millions in tax credits—mo...

Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes Many Illinois and Wisconsin educators are breathing sighs of relief this morning. Democrats  swept the f...

Who in the Pritzker campaign thought this was a good look?  (M.Klonsky pic) “And most importantly, the character of our nation is on ...

CPS student, Tamara Reed “I dreaded going to school. I cried every night."  --  Chicago Tribune Lori Lightfoot  “This tragedy...