Students at under performing public elementary schools will have an opportunity this fall to attend several selective enrollment schools, under a new policy.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is closing two buildings at the once-overcrowded Cook County Jail because of a decrease in the inmate population.

Bond has been denied for two people who face murder and arson charges in a suburban Cicero apartment house blaze that left seven people dead on Valentine's Day.

The former president of the Chicago Board of Education has been tapped to chair the City Colleges of Chicago Board of Trustees, Mayor Richard M. Daley recently announced.

The City of Chicago’s summer job program for youths, Youth Ready Chicago, is now taking applications online until June 4.

Hard, economic times have pushed suburban Riverdale to consider a sale or lease of its village hall to help reduce debt.

Headcount and full-time enrollment at Illinois community colleges increased for Spring 2010 versus Spring 2009, according to the Illinois Community College Board.

President Obama nominated Justice Sharon Johnson Coleman to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Nearly four years after Willie Williams III was gunned down outside the Ford City Shopping Mall, Chicago Police issued a warrant for the arrest of Eddie B. Fenton.

Chicago Police look to the community about solving the February 25 murder of 15-year-old Nathaniel Maxon on the West Side.