Being a parent requires attentiveness, and when you can muster it, patience. In many ways, parenting small children is not unlike being an artist; both necessitate curiosity, mindfulness, and a certain amount of nimbleness. The works in Jessica Labatte’s solo exhibition at Western Exhibitions, “Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm,” form a web of connections between […]
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Does the “Frida Kahlo: Timeless” exhibition and others like it go too far in their pursuit of bigger audiences?
Posted inArts & Culture
Dada Woof Papa Hot shows that modern parenthood’s not just for straight people
“Isn’t being normal the most radical thing of all?” God no!
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After the premature birth of their son, a Chicago couple wonders, ‘How are we gonna get through this?’
New parents Annie Gromberg and Jason Rothstein on the saga of the birth of their son Jascha
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Mayor Emanuel sends the marines into Ames Middle School
Politicians plan to convert another neighborhood school into a military academy.
Posted inMusic
Would you let your children listen to Justin Roberts?
Chicago kids’ musician Justin Roberts is up for a Grammy, so we asked seven local parents to listen to his latest album.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Rahm creates a process to endorse his plan for more charter schools
Rahm creates a process to endorse his plan for more charter schools.
Posted inNews & Politics
Three families tell us why they ditched CPS
When push comes to shove, the city’s middle-class parents often shove off for the suburbs.
Posted inNews & Politics
School dismissed for a beloved security guard
Kelvyn Cockrell started going to Henson elementary at age six, and he never stopped. But now that the school is among 50 closed by CPS, he’ll have to.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Best Community Organization
With its assistance, 500 families have saved their homes, and a present campaign aspires to help people reclaim some of the neighborhood’s many vacant properties.
Posted inNews & Politics
Trying to make separate equal
“By one means or another, our schools will be integrated,” federal judge Julius Hoffman said of Chicago schools in 1962. It was wishful thinking.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The school model that’s good enough for President Obama and Mayor Emanuel
If unionized teachers are good enough for Mayor Emanuel’s kids, why not the public schools?
Posted inFilm
Children for fun and profit on ABC’s new Bet on Your Baby
Children for fun and profit on ABC’s new Bet on Your Baby
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Mayor Emanuel’s crowded-classroom approach to fixing schools
A glimpse at the school overcrowding likely to result from Mayor Emanuel’s “consolidation” plan.
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Good luck finding the documents that explain CPS’s longer school day
Good luck finding the documents that explain CPS’s longer school day