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The City Colleges of Chicago is the public community college system of the Chicago area. Its colleges offer associate degrees, certificates, free courses for the GED, and free English as a second language (ESL) courses. The City Colleges system has its administrative offices in the Chicago Loop. [2] As of 2021, the system has a yearly count of ...
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the ...
Pullman, one of Chicago's 77 defined community areas, is a neighborhood located on the city's South Side. Twelve miles from the Chicago Loop, Pullman is situated adjacent to Lake Calumet . The area known as Pullman encompasses a much wider area than its two historic areas (the older historic area is often referred to as "Pullman" and is a ...
Public officials are vowing to strike a balance between keeping order and allowing free speech. Yet tensions remain high over the prospect of a Democratic National Convention in Chicago this ...
The 2020 University of Illinois Hospital strikes were the result of a breakdown in contract negotiations between labor unions and hospital management over salaries, staffing levels, and access to personal protective equipment . The background for both strikes stemmed from negotiations over labor contracts between the Chicago -based hospital and ...
Shimer College (1853–2017, Mount Carroll, Waukegan, Chicago), merged with North Central College in Naperville in 2017 Solex College (1995–2018, Chicago, Wheeling) Westwood College (1953–2016, Calumet City, Chicago, Woodridge)
Chicago Teachers Strike: CTU has 'tentative agreement' with CPS, but impasse over makeup days continues with no 'return to work' agreement. Chicago Public Schools teachers are still not in the ...
The Chicago Teachers Union ( CTU) is a labor union that represents teachers, paraprofessionals, and clinicians in the Chicago public school system. The union has consistently fought for improved pay, benefits, and job security for its members, and it has resisted efforts to vary teacher pay based on performance evaluations.