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A non-union worker claims she went to work last week, on the first day of the Chicago teachers strike and was assaulted. She says two union members attacked her.

Striking Chicago teachers who are seeking smaller class sizes and higher pay also are demanding that the nation's third-largest city do more to lower housing costs and put more resources into helping homeless students.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants the Chicago Teachers Union to call off its strike before there's agreement on a new contract, but the union isn't having any of it.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s weekend prediction that there would be no school on Monday became official on Sunday night. Students will have another day off as the strike pushes into a fifth day.  

Boeing says it regrets concerns raised about internal communications it recently handed over to Congress and federal regulators that are investigating two deadly crashes of the company's 737 Max airplanes.   

Chicago teachers and city leaders said they were still negotiating on Saturday night.

Chicago parents are leaning on family, friends and community groups with teachers in the nation's third-largest school district on strike.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot swept into office this spring declaring it "a new day" for the nation's third-largest city. She pledged to change the way City Hall operated under Rahm Emanuel and for decades before him, invest in poor neighborhoods, improve schools and address the city's deeply troubled finances.

Chicago's police oversight board on Thursday fired an officer who fatally shot two people - a teenager he said threatened him with a bat and a woman standing nearby.

The Chicago Teachers Union is on strike on Thursday in the nation's third-largest school district.

Striking teachers marched in picket lines outside hundreds of Chicago schools on Thursday after their union and city officials failed to reach a contract deal in the nation's third-largest school district, canceling classes for more than 300,000 students for the duration of a walkout that seemed likely to head into a second day.

Chicago's inspector general says police department detectives conducted an "incompetent and incomplete" investigation into the suspicious death of an officer.

Chicago parents and community groups are scrambling to prepare for a massive teachers' strike set to begin Thursday, prompting the city to preemptively cancel classes in the nation's third-largest school district.

Chicago's public schools will be closed Thursday as the city's 25,000 teachers are set to go on strike . A strike in the nation's third-largest school district would mean no classes for more than 300,000 students. Like most workers threatening to walk off the job, the teachers want a raise. But money is only part of the story.

Parents and community groups are scrambling to prepare for an expected strike by Chicago teachers that prompted city officials to preemptively cancel Thursday's classes in the nation's third-largest school district.

We'll likely know Wednesday whether the Chicago Teachers Union will deliver on its threat to shutdown Chicago’s public schools on Thursday.

Chicago teachers are on the brink of a strike as city officials wage a final push to try to prevent it.

A white Chicago police officer convicted of killing black teenager Laquan McDonald has resigned from the department.