The CEO of Chicago Public Schools joins us to explain one of the largest school shutdowns in U.S. history.

More than 50 Chicago Public Schools are on CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett's final closure list. We have reaction.

President Obama's State of the Union called for universal preschool. Nobel Prize-winning professor James Heckman shares his research on the benefit of preschool decades after graduation.

The Chicago Public Schools denies it banned the award-winning graphic novel Persepolis from classrooms and libraries for its depiction of torture. We have the latest on the controversy.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett released a school safety plan today. It's part of an overall transition plan she says every school that will be closed or receive students will get when she announces her final schools closing list on March 31. Elizabeth Brackett reports.

We have your thoughts about school closures and our interview with Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis when we read some of your viewer feedback.

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis joins us to talk about impending school closures, and whether race is a factor.

Chicago State University is no stranger to fiscal dramas and failures. Now the Board wants to boot the university’s latest president, Wayne Watson. But Watson is fighting back. He joins us to share his side of the story.

More than 100 schools remain on the list for possible closures -- and in community meetings around Chicago, parents are strongly objecting to the possibility of closing their neighborhood school. Elizabeth Brackett reports.

CPS considers its final trim to the school closure list with hearings across the city. Elizabeth Brackett has more.

State Sen. Kimberly Lightford, D-Maywood, wants to lower the mandatory school age in Illinois from 7 to 5. 

Chicago Public Schools releases a list of schools that are still being considered for closings. Elizabeth Brackett has the latest.

Charges of insider contracts surface in building and maintaining a $25 million UNO charter school. Carol Marin talks with the Chicago Sun-Times reporters who uncovered the story.

Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund executive director Kevin Huber joins us with the dire state of his fund.

A technology park in the middle of the city -- University of Illinois announces a new research lab modeled on Bell Labs. Vice president of research Larry Schook joins us.

Lands' End founder Gary Comer dedicated much of his life to revitalizing his childhood home: Pocket Town, in Greater Grand Crossing. How much good has his $86 million (and counting) done? Chicago magazine editor Elly Fishman joins us with the story.