Cleodious “J.R.” Schoffner Jr. hadn't killed anyone when he was put away at age 20 as an accomplice to a 1997 murder. He got a life sentence with no possibility of parole. That wouldn't happen today.

The Chicgao Public Schools board voted Thursday to approve an amended plan to keep five Acero schools open next school year. Two Acero schools, Paz and Cruz, will close at the end of this year.

The Acero Schools community is on edge after immigration agents detained an adult Wednesday near Soto High School and Idar ...

A School Board vote in December had spared seven Acero schools from closure for a year and promised to absorb five of them in ...

Of seven Acero charter school campuses that had been targeted for closure by the network, five will remain open for the ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement defended arresting the man who had just dropped off a child at Jovita Idár ...

The Chicago school board voted to keep open all of the seven schools slated for closure in the Acero Charter Network through ...

The 21-member board at its monthly meeting Thursday voted to amend language in a revised resolution that would now aim to ...

Acero Charter School parents and students were left in a state of uncertainty Thursday, as Chicago's Board of Education voted ...

Two students were with the adult outside the Southwest Side school Wednesday morning, officials said. "It is really ...

A former U.S. Navy sailor faces two decades in prison after pleading guilty to plotting to attack Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago, allegedly on behalf of Iran’s Islamic ...

Immigration agents arrested a 37-year-old man during student drop-off at a pair of Gage Park schools on Wednesday.