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CHICAGO (CBS) --A former Chicago Public Schools IT worker fired from the school district's Office of Safety and Security allegedly stole personal information from tens of thousands of people whose ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A former Chicago Public School employee has been charged with computer tampering and identity theft after police said she downloaded personal files from the school district's database ...

A former IT worker for Chicago Public Schools (CPS) allegedly stole the personal information of about 70,000 people from files that should have been secured. Kristi Sims was charged on Friday with one ...

An analysis of CPS budgets released last week show two-thirds of the district’s schools will lose funds in this year’s budgets. Of the almost 660 schools, 443 will get less money than last year. The ...

Chicago Public Schools has reinstated the principal of a Cook County Jail high school program after rejecting allegations of wrongdoing made by the district’s inspector general. York High School ...

Chicago Public Schools says many of the district’s schools will lose money under budget cuts detailed Tuesday. But CPS says it will apply unused state money and redirect tens of millions of dollars in ...

City police have charged one of its sergeants with illegally accessing and using internal data. It’s alleged the officer, who’s been with CPS for 31 years, improperly accessed two police databases 96 ...

WBEZ has researched the official data sets that show the impact of coronavirus on schools in Illinois – including case counts, close contacts and vaccination rates. We’ve consolidated some of the most ...