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Six of those 40 people who were shot died, authorities said. More than a quarter were wounded in a single police district on the West Side.

District officials have been scrambling to cover classrooms amid surge and teacher...

Roy Exum: Signs Of The Apocalypse Monday, February 15, 2021 - by Roy Exum Roy Exum There was a glorious meme (think of several pictures with delightful captions) bouncing all around the Internet on Sunday. In the first, you see the most poisonous 80-year-old woman on the planet – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi –snapping hello into a desk phone and then, in her trademark snip, yelling “Who is this!!” The voice on the other end replies very legibly, “Owen.” Nancy immediately devours...

GARY — The Gary Community School Corp. closed two more offers on vacant buildings over winter break, adding to the 14 sales negotiated by the district within the last year. Horace Mann High School and Ralph Waldo Emerson School were sold to the Gary Housing Authority for $5,000 each, according to an updated GCSC list of building sales. In its sales, the district included the transfer of neighboring Vohr Elementary with Horace Mann, and Spaulding Elementary with nearby Emerson. The finalize...

GARY — The Gary Community School Corp. is progressing in its goal to sell dozens of vacant and blighted school buildings. The district has sold 14 properties — including its Wirt-Emerson Visual and Performing Arts Academy, closed in 2018 — school leaders announced this week. Many of the building have sat empty for years, developing into both neighborhood eyesores and magnets for crime across the city. The Gary school corporation publicly listed two dozen sites for sale in early 2...