Chuck Stark News Today

The Quad City Botanical Center has announced a new garden, the Trending Garden, sponsored by the Davenport Jaycee Foundation and Jaycees of the Quad Cities.

The victory against General Iron and Mayor Lori Lightfoot points the way to clean, green and fully funded schools.

“We’re looking for enthusiastic, curious and hard-working young people eager to help Mayor Lightfoot win this spring,” according to an email obtained WTTW News that was sent to Chicago Public Schools teachers’ work email addresses.

The first email to City Colleges instructors urging them ask their students to volunteer for the Lightfoot campaign was sent on Aug. 19, according to an email obtained by WTTW News. The second was sent Monday.

On July 27, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s attempt to fire two teachers for their environmental justice activism was defeated. After pressure from the

Chicago Public Schools’ governing board rejected a recommendation from the district to fire two educators who encouraged students to protest the General Iron...

The Chicago Teachers Union says the teachers, including a hunger striker, are being retaliated against for embarrassing Mayor Lightfoot. The Chicago Board of Education is expected to vote Wednesday.

CPS said the teachers engaged in “several significant policy violations," including rules over the transportation of students, which the teachers deny.

Two Chicago Public Schools teachers faced firing for their roles encouraging high school students to protest the proposed move of General Iron to the Southeast Side, an action that their union says is retaliation for embarrassing Mayor Lori Lightfoot during the years-long debate.

Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times A month into a hunger strike protesting the relocation of the General Iron metal-shredding business to the Southeast Side, activists said they were ending their campaign and noted their disappointment that Mayor Lori Lightfoot didn’t meet with them. Yesenia Chavez, a lifelong resident of the Southeast Side and one of the first four hunger strikers, said at a rally Thursday night that she lost 17 pounds and experienced a host of physical and psychological stresses. Le...