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Current and former employees allege the organization is allowing health inequities to persist by deprioritizing its South Side locations and fighting the new union.

Donatta Yates started her career as a social studies teacher at Fenger High in Chicago, came to District 218 in 1970 and became principal at Eisenhower High School in Blue Island in 1979.

Cities Barack Obama has exploited his youthful stint as a Chicago community organizer at every stage of his political career. As someone who had worked for grassroots “change,” he said, he was a different kind of politician, one who could translate people’s hopes into reality. The media lapped up this conceit, presenting Obama’s organizing experience as a meaningful qualification for the Oval Office. This past September, a cell-phone video of Chicago students beating a fellow teen to de...

Rare interviews and newly discovered photos recall the victims of Richard Speck's rampage as the 50th anniversary approaches.

Dozier also is committed to giving her kids a chance at a better future. >> you guys look so cute. oh, my god! one, two, three, take like three or four. >> unlike charter schools, fenger high accepts all students. >> so at this time, i would like our 100th graduating class to turn your tassles from left to right. you have officially graduated from high school. >> fengers graduation rate is 50%, which is an improvement from 2012. in 2013, more students are also going to college, but liz knows the...

>> unlike charter schools, fenger high accepts all students. >> so at this time, i would like our 100th graduating class to turn your tassels from left to right. you have officially graduated from high school. >> fengers graduation rate is 50%, which is an improvement from 2012. in 2013, more students are also going to college, but liz knows theres much more work to be done. >> my brain is already in next year. i wrapped this up three months ago. now im thinking where are we headed to and how ar...

Have to pay the taxes they used to have to pay. that would actually fund schools. >> back at fenger high, the principal is forced to do the best she can with the money she has. >> josh, how were you in class today? >> good. >> the work is not between the hours of 8:00 and 3:30. to me it extends beyond that. >> bye. and cigarettes. >> lizs hard work with her students hasnt gone unnoticed. >> liz dozier. >> liz takes lee and a group of seniors to the challenge awards ceremony, where fenger is bein...

And have a purpose in life. >> my perfect world would be love and wellness. instead of kids being thrown away, theyre kept and loved. >> these daydreams are rudely interrupted when shots ring out just blocks from school. >> there was a shooting a couple blocks from the school, but we got a call -- a couple calls saying a lot of our kids are up there. >> liz races to the scene fearing one of her kids may have gotten shot. >> we got a call from one of our security officers. she said she saw a bunc...

That would actually fund schools. >> back at fenger high, the principal is forced to do the best she can with the money she has. >> josh, how were you in class today? >> good. >> the work is not between the hours of 8:00 and 3:30. to me it extends beyond that. >> bye. i need you to stop smoking weed and cigarettes. >> lizs hard work with her students hasnt gone unnoticed. >> liz dozier. >> liz takes lee and a group of seniors to the challenge awards ceremony, where fenger is being honored. >> al...

Three people got shot last night right up the hill. its just crazy. the first hot day come, here comes the shooting. >> even as shooting continues on the street, just blocks away at fenger high, principal dozier moves forward with the peace march. >> the objective is for students to be able to walk away and understand the importance for the peace walk. >> how is it going to go? the kids are all leading this, so they have to have a clear understanding of what theyre supposed to do and where theyr...