A group of Chicago Public Schools students have filed suit against the school district, saying the district should pay for allegedly allowing a PE teacher to sexually abuse them and other students for years.
A Cook County judge has ruled Chicago Public Schools' attempt to seize control at the successful, but controversy-plagued Urban Prep Academies charter high schools violated a state moratorium on public school closures until Chicago can elect and seat a new Board of Education in January 2025
Leaders at Urban Prep Academies are asking a Cook County judge to find CPS in contempt, because CPS is continuing with plans to take control at charter high school, despite appeals court's restraining order
Urban Prep Academies, charter high schools known nationally for helping young Black males from Chicago's South Side succeed academically, says Chicago Public Schools is attempting to sidestep state law in a bid to force them out and take over their schools
The lawsuit asserts Chicago Public Schools claimed there weren't enough students on particular teams to justify paying the non-teacher coaches, who said they had agreed to work for a stipend and claimed they had met all of the terms and conditions to qualify for payment.
A federal judge has decided it is too early for the Chicago Board of Education to try to toss a lawsuit by a former Northwestern University student teacher placement officer, who claims she was fired for criticizing the city's public schools.
Chicago Public Schools said the turnaround program resulted in better schools for all students. Chicago Teachers Union said it resulted in discriminatory layoffs of Black teachers
A vascular surgeon said IU Health revoked his hospital privileges as part of alleged scheme to leverage massive market presence to pressure him when he refused to end independent practice
Plaintiffs say the proposed Illinois state constitutional amendment would allow unions to use collective bargaining agreements to override state and federal law, which the plaintiffs say makes Amendment 1 unconstitutional from the start
Why have judges and lawyers - including those who bill themselves as defenders of civil liberties - largely deferred to the widespread use of emergency executive power by governors, mayors and others, throughout the Covid pandemic, despite constitutional questions?
Chicago Public Schools says a court should reject an attempt by a high school soccer player to block enforcement of its Covid testing rules for unvaccinated student athletes, which the student claims violate her rights under Illinois law
The lawsuit was filed by the mother of a women's soccer team member at Whitney Young High School, who has been barred from playing since late April over objections to CPS' rule requiring only unvaccinated athletes to test exclusively through CPS' Covid testing vendor
For second time in less than a week, Springfield appeals court says COVID vaccine-or-test mandates are "workplace safety rules," not illegal public health orders that violate workers' rights
Dissenting Fourth District Appellate Court justice says his colleagues ignored Illinois Supreme Court precedent and other legal precedents in declaring the state's Right of Conscience law only forbids discrimination against conscientous objectors in an "unconventional sense"
The lawsuit argues neither state law or any union-related negotiation or arbitration should allow Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections to ignore due process rights afforded to IDOC workers under the state's public health laws
Sangamon County Circuit Judge Raylene Grischow says Chicago Public Schools lacks authority under state law to enforce its so-called vax-or-test mandate, and also can't rely on its contract with the Chicago Teachers Union to sidestep the law
While billed as a "workers rights amendment," Amendment 1 - which will be on the ballot this fall in Illinois - would give unions the power to use collective bargaining to override a wide range of state laws that apply to everyone else, says the Illinois Policy Institute
Attorney Tom DeVore has filed suit on behalf of dozens of Chicago city workers, arguing Mayor Lori Lightfoot's vaccine-or-test mandate wasn't issued legally, and violates city workers' due process rights
In the motion, attorney Tom DeVore, on behalf of the CPS educators, asserts Chicago Public Schools' vaccine mandate for workers violates their rights to due process under Illinois law