At a Feb. 27 meeting, the board bucked the district’s guidance to fire a cook at Marquette Elementary School in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood who allegedly waved a knife in the face of a fellow ...

The Chicago Board of Education has narrowed its list for the interim schools’ chief down to three candidates in recent days, one of whom has a history of alleged negligence as a principal.

Kyreana Loman, 13, was rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn after passing out at McKay Elementary School, 6938 S. Washtenaw Ave., her mother told the Chicago Sun-Times.