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Parents in Chicago have a wide range of choices when it comes to where their children go to school. 
 
 But navigating the public school system can be daunting. 
 
 Candidates for school board president...

Tomorrow [SAT] Chicago's Columbus Drive will come alive with a fire-breathing dragon, plus dozens of dancers, drummers and giant puppets. 
 
 It's all part of the annual Arts in the Dark parade. 
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The Pulitzer Prize and Tony award winning show “A Strange Loop” has been a big draw this fall in Chicago.
 
 The trippy, “Inception”-like musical has just extended three more weeks and released a new batch of...

Gridlock on the Kennedy Expressway has never been worse than these past few years.
 
 That’s according to a new analysis of more than two decades of travel times by WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times.
 
 Our...

Dozens of Border Patrol agents are no longer roaming Chicago neighborhoods.
 
 Enforcement has grown quieter and less visible, but arrests continue. 
 
 And the fear that took hold in immigrant...

Four years ago, billionaire businessman Michael Sacks wrote a $200,000 check to Brandon Johnson’s inaugural committee and went to see the mayor-elect to help him set up his administration.
 
 When Johnson...

Each year, Chicago Fashion Week stages creations by local designers through a series of events and runway shows. 
 
 But for the first time, one of its shows celebrated work created by a cast of all openly LGBTQ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is laying out his $17-point-6 billion dollar budget proposal. The plan resurrects Johnson’s failed corporate head tax from last year in an attempt to close the city’s $882 million dollar...

Election day is fast approaching. 
 
 And Illinois voters are being asked to fill the open U.S. Senate seat now held by retiring Senator Dick Durbin.
 
 In the only face-to-face showdown of the campaign...

This story contains references to sexual violence and may disturb some listeners.
 
 A 21-year-old woman says she was sexually assaulted at a frat house near the University of Chicago earlier this month.&#13...

so far, the Chicago Teachers Union is being outraised and outspent.
 
 That’s despite the CTU being the biggest spender in these elections two years ago.
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A woman is suing a University of Chicago fraternity, alleging she was raped earlier this year by one of its members. 
 
 The lawsuit filed yesterday (MON) holds that a member of Alpha Delta Phi sexually...

This October, some theaters in Chicago are getting into the Halloween spirit and staging spooky stories.
 
 HOST: LANE

There are fewer than three weeks until election day.
 
 And for the first time, Chicagoans will elect the entire Board of Education.
 
 Candidates for CPS Board President spoke at a forum hosted by WBEZ...

There are less than three weeks until election day.
 
 And as the campaigns hit high gear, Governor JB Pritzker and Republican candidate Darren Bailey faced off last night [tuesday] in a bitterly-fought...