Chicago Teachers Union leaders and a coalition of progressive organizations have endorsed more than a dozen candidates for Chicago's elected school board.
Chicago Teachers Union members have rejected an effort to raise dues. The union's goal was to raise teacher dues to help pay for political campaigns.
Voters will elect Chicago's school board this November. Five candidates are now in the race for president, but some are questioning whether the Chicago Teachers Union should be throwing it's weight behind any one candidate.
The Chicago Teachers Union is pushing back on a bill in Springfield designed to keep the Bears in Illinois.
International Workers Day served as the backdrop of several May Day rallies in Chicago and across the country on Friday, bringing together thousands who made their voices heard from the city's Near West Side to filling Daley Plaza.
The Chicago Board of Education met Thursday amid brewing tension over the May Day agreement between CPS and CTU.