Lightfoot has shared lots of plans for CPS, but her ideas for the city’s community college system and its leadership remain a mystery.
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Residents acknowledged a past of resisting integration and affirmed their current commitment to fair housing.
Federal authorities have accused a real estate developer of steering legal work to Ald. Ed Burke in exchange for a permit and financing for a redevelopment project.
Federal authorities have accused a real estate developer of steering legal work to Ald. Ed Burke in exchange for a permit and financing for a redevelopment project.
Chicago’s error-ridden gang database was searched 32,000 times by federal immigration agencies, according to the city’s inspector general.
Chicago’s error-ridden gang database was searched 32,000 times by federal immigration agencies, according to the city’s inspector general.
In 1972, Janet Burroway was assigned to teach a “narrative techniques” class at Florida State. But when she went to find a text to use with the class, she could not find anything that spoke to fiction writing. “There were (it is difficult now to imagine) virtually no books to serve as guidance,” she explains in the introduction to the tenth edition of Writing Fiction, which publishes at the end of April. “Strunk and White’s Elements of Style was a mainstay, but it took, as White notes, a barking tone toward its writer novices. I reread E. M. Forster’s lovely Aspects of the Novel, but it was mostly too abstract and too advanced for my Florida eighteen-year-olds. I combed Eric Bentley’s The Life of the Drama for clues to plot. I read another how-to, the name and author of which I no longer remember, but which memorably assured me that women use a lot of exclamation points but men should not.” So Burroway, a writer of novels herself, decided to create a guide of her own. Three decades later, Writing Fiction has sold more than a quarter million copies and remains the go-to book for aspiring writers. And despite the […]
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This week's tools, tips and tricks talks about one of my favorite security sites grc.com. Specifically the ShieldsUp! service. This epsiode talks about the site and why it should definately be in your bookmark list.
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Chicago is suing Empire actor Jussie Smollett to recover the costs of investigating a hate crime attack that police say he made up.
A Chicago police commander testifies against sergeant who OKed report that Laquan McDonald “injured” Jason Van Dyke.
Sam McCann, a former state senator who mounted a failed bid for governor last fall, appears to be the subject of a federal investigation.
Democrats try to force Trump’s hand by requiring presidential candidates release five years’ worth of income taxes to make the state ballot.
A report from Chicago’s inspector general finds Chicago Public Schools regularly searched the police gang database. CPS denies this.
One 152-pound boxer doesn’t let partial blindness keep him from chasing his dream.
Gang-related information is shared with over 500 agencies, but there are not proper mechanisms to ensure accuracy.
In information security you may have the term honeypot. They are important tools and technique in the defense of a network or application. This episode details what a honeypot is and how they are used.
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Two Chicago police officers fighting a recommendation to fire them for allegedly lying about Laquan McDonald’s killing testified Wednesday afternoon that the teenager was making threatening moves with a knife he was carrying and, after he was shot to t...
Prosecutors want records relating to Democrat Tom Cullerton, who has made more than $180K working as a Teamsters union organizer.