Past Articles by Cheryl Corley
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Losers In Chicago School Closings Target Elected Officials The Chicago school board voted to close dozens of schools, despite community protests that the closings disproportionately affect minority students. Now the teachers union and community activists want to change the system and oust the elected officials who disagreed with them. |
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Losers In Chicago School Closings Target Elected Officials The Chicago school board voted to close dozens of schools, despite community protests that the closings disproportionately affect minority students. Now the teachers union and community activists want to change the system and oust the elected officials who disagreed with them. |
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Losers In Chicago School Closings Target Elected Officials The Chicago school board voted to close dozens of schools, despite community protests that the closings disproportionately affect minority students. Now the teachers union and community activists want to change the system and oust the elected officials who disagreed with them. |
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Losers In Chicago School Closings Target Elected Officials The Chicago school board voted to close dozens of schools, despite community protests that the closings disproportionately affect minority students. Now the teachers union and community activists want to change the system and oust the elected officials who disagreed with them. |
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Cash Crunch Prompts Controversial Sales At Chicago's Field Museum The museum, already hard-hit by the economic crash, didn't meet projected fundraising and attendance numbers, and now must make up a $5 million budget deficit. The shortfall forced it to sell some items in its renowned collection. |
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Chicago's Famed Field Museum Struggles To Dig Out Of A Hole The museum, already hard-hit by the economic crash, didn't meet projected fundraising and attendance numbers, and now must make up a $5 million budget deficit. The shortfall forced it to sell some items in its renowned collection. |
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Critics Up Pressure To Keep Targeted Chicago Schools Open A marathon series of public hearings over school closings in Chicago is over and the city is a step closer to conducting what could be the nation's largest shutdown of schools. Fifty-three elementary and one public high school are on the chopping block. Parents, educators and others say they're not ready to give up the fight. |
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Critics Up Pressure To Keep Targeted Chicago Schools Open A marathon series of public hearings over school closings in Chicago is over and the city is a step closer to conducting what could be the nation's largest shutdown of schools. Fifty-three elementary and one public high school are on the chopping block. Parents, educators and others say they're not ready to give up the fight. |
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Critics Up Pressure To Keep Targeted Chicago Schools Open A marathon series of public hearings over school closings in Chicago is over and the city is a step closer to conducting what could be the nation's largest shutdown of schools. Fifty-three elementary and one public high school are on the chopping block. Parents, educators and others say they're not ready to give up the fight. |
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Michelle Obama Steps Into Gun Control Debate The first lady gave a personal and emotional speech in her hometown, two months after attending the funeral of a Chicago teen who was shot and killed earlier this year. Michelle Obama is encouraging business leaders to donate millions of dollars for programs to help at-risk youth. |
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Michelle Obama Steps Into Gun Control Debate The first lady gave a personal and emotional speech in her hometown, two months after attending the funeral of a Chicago teen who was shot and killed earlier this year. Michelle Obama is encouraging business leaders to donate millions of dollars for programs to help at-risk youth. |
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For Pulitzer-Winning Critic Roger Ebert, Films Were A Journey He was a print journalist initially, but Ebert's "thumbs up" TV critiques were just as influential as his essays, and he later carved out a prodigious digital presence. Ebert died Thursday after struggling for years with cancer. He was 70 years old. |
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Discord Grows Over Chicago's Planned School Closings Hundreds of members of the Chicago teachers union and other labor groups rallied Wednesday in an ongoing protest over a school closure plan that would shut down more than 10 percent of the district's 400 plus elementary schools. This is part of a political showdown with the city that began earlier in the school year when the teachers went on strike. |
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Discord Grows Over Chicago's Planned School Closings Hundreds of members of the Chicago teachers union and other labor groups rallied Wednesday in an ongoing protest over a school closure plan that would shut down more than 10 percent of the district's 400 plus elementary schools. This is part of a political showdown with the city that began earlier in the school year when the teachers went on strike. |
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Chicago To Close 54 Public Schools Chicago school officials intend to close more than 50 elementary schools. It would be one of the largest mass school closures in the country. The Chicago Board of Education says closing under-utilized facilities would free up resources for a school district deep in debt. Angry parents and the teachers union say the plan will endanger children. |
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Chicago To Close 54 Public Schools Chicago school officials intend to close more than 50 elementary schools. It would be one of the largest mass school closures in the country. The Chicago Board of Education says closing under-utilized facilities would free up resources for a school district deep in debt. Angry parents and the teachers union say the plan will endanger children. |
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Chicago To Close 54 Schools. Parents, Teachers Angry The Chicago Board of Education says closing under-utilized facilities would free up resources for a school district deep in debt. Parents and the teachers union say the plan will endanger children. |
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Chicago Teachers, Parents Riled By Plan To Close 54 Public Schools The Chicago public school district says closing underutilized facilities would free up resources as it faces a $1 billion shortfall. But parents and the teachers union say the plan will endanger children, and they plan to fight to keep the schools open. |
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Chicago Teachers, Parents Riled By Plan To Close 54 Public Schools The Chicago public school district says closing underutilized facilities would free up resources as it faces a $1 billion shortfall. But parents and the teachers union say the plan will endanger children, and they plan to fight to keep the schools open. |
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Chicago Teachers, Parents Riled By Plan To Close 54 Public Schools The Chicago public school district says closing underutilized facilities would free up resources as it faces a $1 billion shortfall. But parents and the teachers union say the plan will endanger children, and they plan to fight to keep the schools open. |
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Game Of Change: Pivotal Matchup Helped End Segregated Hoops Mississippi State University defied its state's unwritten rule of never playing against a team with African-Americans. Its 1963 NCAA tournament match against Loyola University, which had four black players in its starting lineup, became a symbol in the effort to overturn Jim Crow policies. |
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August Wilson's Words Get New Life In Monologue Contest The legendary American playwright's words and characters are central to a national monologue contest that gives high school students a chance to discover themselves in the stories of his Century Cycle. |
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An Oprah-less Chicago Tries To Keep Talk Show Spirit Alive It's been nearly two years since Oprah ended her daily show, and Chicago's been adjusting to the loss of the daytime talk queen. She left a void, but there's no need to write an obituary for the talk genre in Chicago. The city is still home to two shows, Windy City Live and the Steve Harvey Show. |
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Obama To Push State Of The Union Messages In Chicago Several anti-violence activists have been calling for President Obama to visit his hometown after a series of deadly incidents involved guns. They want to hear the president's plans to curb a gun problem many consider an epidemic. |
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Airport Suites Offer Travelers A Place To Nap On The Fly One company says it has a solution to long delays between flights: tiny suites where you can sleep, watch TV or work without leaving the airport. Minute Suites is currently operating in Atlanta and Philadelphia and is headed next for Chicago O'Hare and Dallas-Forth Worth. |
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Airport Suites Offer Travelers A Place To Nap On The Fly One company says it has a solution to long delays between flights: tiny suites where you can sleep, watch TV or work without leaving the airport. Minute Suites is currently operating in Atlanta and Philadelphia and is headed next for Chicago O'Hare and Dallas-Forth Worth. |
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Gun Violence Robs Chicago Mother Of 4th Child In Chicago, one mother has lost four children to gunfire — the first was murdered about 18 years ago. The last of the siblings was buried Monday. Shirley Chambers says something must be done, but she's not sure new gun restrictions or more police on the streets will make a difference. |
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Violence-Riddled Chicago Hopes Gun Proposals Will Help Shield It There were more than 500 homicides in the city last year. Officials and residents are counting on President Obama's gun control package to bring that number down. "We didn't want other parents to be like us," says one Chicago mom, whose son was shot to death on a city bus. |
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Mystery In Lottery Winner's Death May Lead To Exhumation A small-business owner in Chicago won $1 million in July, but ended up dead before he could cash in his winnings. At first, authorities said the man died of natural causes, but later they said it was cyanide poisoning. Officials hope an autopsy can help provide more answers. |
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A Vision For Chicago Public Housing, Stymied And Contested The city's Plan for Transformation aims to diversify public-housing units, adding a mix of market-rate and subsidized residences. But the project, one of the country's most closely watched public housing experiments, has been hampered by the flailing economy and faces protests from people living in the units. |
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Chicago Mayor Emanuel To Present Proposed Budget Chicago continues to wrestle with a massive budget gap and severely underfunded pensions. Fresh off a negotiating tussle with the city's teachers and a school strike, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday presents his proposed 2013 budget to the City Council. |
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Chick-Fil-A, Chicago Alderman Moreno Reach Deal Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno says he will no longer stand in the way of Chick-fil-A opening a restaurant in his ward since it will stop making donations to groups that oppose gay marriage. It was a month ago that supporters filled Chick-fil-A restaurants and gay activists protested after the CEO of the restaurant chain said he opposed same-sex marriage. |
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GOP Faces Uphill Battle For Black Vote Just 2 percent of delegates at the Republican National Convention were black. That's higher than the percentage that supported Mitt Romney in a recent poll: 0. And getting blacks on board may prove especially hard for the GOP presidential candidate given the tone of some recent campaign ads and a wave of new voter ID laws. |
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As Convention Day Winds Down, Tampa Hosts Republican (And Other) Parties In Tampa, the phrase "Republican Party" can take on a whole new meaning as it gets later in the day. While politicians try to stir up emotions with prime-time speeches, nightclubs offer a different outlet. |
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Hot, Dry, Tapped Out: Drought Shrivels Fun, Too The drought that's hit huge swathes of the country is also draining the audiences for outdoor activities. Fishers, golfers, boaters and gardeners are staying indoors, and that's bad news for the businesses that depend on them. |
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NAACP Issues HIV-Aids Manual For Black Churches African-Americans suffer some of the highest rates of HIV and Aids in the country. The NAACP says it's time for one of the most important institutions in the African-American community, the black church, to help combat those numbers. The NAACP has released a manual especially designed for clergy to assist in discussions about HIV-AIDS as a social justice issue with their parishioners. |
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Urgency Reigns At Vote-Focused NAACP Convention The nation's oldest civil rights organization holds its annual convention in Houston this week. As in any election season, the group is putting energy into voting rights and voter turnout. But this year, the dramatically high rate of unemployment rate among African-Americans is also a key concern. |
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Exhale, Chicago: A Little Pot May Be Fine(d) Chicago's leadership is considering a plan that would make adults caught with a small amount of marijuana subject to a fine instead of arrest. The idea is to use police more efficiently. But not all of the city's leaders agree. They'll discuss the rule Wednesday. |
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A New Union Battle As Chicago Teachers, Mayor Clash Teachers in the country's third-largest school district have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if the city and their union can't come to terms this summer. The vote is just the latest example of the gulf between teachers, Chicago school officials and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. |
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After NAACP Marriage Stance, Discord And Discussion The NAACP recently took what was for some in the organization a controversial step, when it endorsed same-sex marriage. That move has now led some local officers around the country to resign - including the group's most outspoken critic of gay marriage. |
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Closure Of Chicago Mental Health Clinics Looms By the end of the month, Chicago plans to shut down six of its 12 public mental health clinics. It's a decision that's brought clinic barricades, arrests and a 24-7 vigil by protesters who hope to keep the clinics open. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the consolidation plan will actually mean more care for the mentally ill. |
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Discovery Sparks Interest In Forgotten Black Scholar Three years ago, a Chicago man found historic documents in an abandoned house and took them to a rare-books dealer. The papers and books belonged to Richard T. Greener, a 19th century intellectual, who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard University. |
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Tulsa Shooting Victim Had Turned Her Life Around Donna Fields, 49, was walking home in a predominantly black neighborhood on the north side of Tulsa, Okla., when she was shot to death Friday night. "She's been an inspiration to us ... to see what God can do with anybody," her preacher said. |
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'Premature' To Call Tulsa Shootings Hate Crimes Police in Tulsa, Okla., say it is much too early in their investigation to describe the murder of three black residents and the wounding of two others as a hate crime. Two men were arrested early Sunday morning, and are expected to face charges of first-degree murder and shooting with intent to kill. |
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In Trayvon Martin Case, Attorney Also Scrutinized Angela Corey's reputation for being tough on crime comforts some, but worries others. Activists with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference oppose her appointment, and the group's president says her persona is built in part on charging minors, especially young black men, as adults. |
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Trayvon Martin Case: Attorney Choice Sparks Division Florida State Attorney Angela Corey is heading the investigation of the black teen's death. Her reputation for being tough on crime comforts some, but worries others. Corey says what she needs is patience from a public that's demanding action. |
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Jesse Jackson Jr. Makes Final Push To Win Primary It's not only GOP voters who have a stake in Tuesday's Illinois primary. This year Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. faces a primary challenge from former Rep. Debbie Halvorson. Will an ethics investigation and Halvorson's own record be enough to unseat Jackson, who has served his district since 1995? |
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Voters May Break Up Fight Over 'Fighting Sioux' The University of North Dakota's Native American nickname and logo has been controversial for decades. The dispute has reached a new level as supporters and opponents fight over the validity of a state law that requires the university to keep the name. |
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Online Lottery Could Be Coming To A State Near You Several states are now pushing forward with plans to offer lotteries on the Internet. That's in the aftermath of a federal ruling that states are free to conduct online gambling within their borders. But some worry it opens the door to new bankruptcies and addicted gamblers. |
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At Least 100 Sears, Kmart Stores To Close Sears Holdings announced Tuesday it will shutter at least 100 stores as a cost-cutting measure following a disappointing holiday season. The retailer's namesake Sears and Kmart stores have struggled against competitors such as Wal-Mart, Target and Home Depot. Sears says it will save as much as $170 million through the store closings. It did not say how many employees will lose their jobs. |
