A decade has passed since Emanuel called for the closings of more American schools at one time than ever before. Chicago's Board of Education cast its historic votes 10 years ago this spring ...

Editor's Note: Our latest story on school closings for Tuesday, which includes more than 100 closures, can be found here. Our original story continues below. More than a dozen Chicago-area schools ...

Chicago is hesitant to close schools because of pushback and politics. But Chicago Public Schools’ declining enrollment is ...

Editor's note: You can find our latest school closures story for Tuesday, Jan. 9 here. Our original story continues below. Several Chicago-area schools will be closed on Tuesday as a winter storm ...

The Emergency Closing Center lists Chicago area schools, businesses, daycare centers, and organizations. Elyssa is a digital news producer for CBS Chicago. She covers breaking news and manages the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago Public Schools says it will close 53 schools and 61 buildings in an effort to close a $1 billion budget deficit. RELATED: Reasons Why CPS Is Closing Each School Here is ...

Acero kids, like a lot of our kids in Chicago, come from homes with greater academic and emotional needs. Adding something as big as not just one school closing, but seven schools closing ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Find out if your school, business or daycare center is closed because of a weather emergency. The Emergency Closing Center lists the status of all reported ECC facilities.

In the fall of 2012, the fear of school closings was one of the main catalysts for the historic Chicago Teachers Union strike, which saw tens of thousands of teachers walk off the job. Despite ...

No one can blame those families who left Chicago because they couldn’t find a school they liked following the closings. Mandi Swan was one of them. She and her husband eventually moved the ...

Despite Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s promise that mass school closings in 2013 would lead to a “brighter future,” Chicago students didn’t benefit academically and on average their performance ...

According to the Emergency Closing Center, as many as 13 Chicago-area schools had reported closures or switches to e-learning Tuesday. Those closures include Harvey District #152, Homewood ...