WATCH LIVE: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will lay out the city’s plans to help kids have access to remote learning in a 1 p.m. press conference, which you can watch in the video player above The city of Chicago is launching a concerted effort to help students learn remotely, deploying thousands of new devices to help comply with new...

In an address to the city of Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot revealed that schools will remain closed until late April, at least. NBC 5’s Christian Farr has the story.

March 12 briefing: Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a ban on large gatherings of 1,000 people or more in Illinois Thursday.

March 13 briefing: Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Friday that all schools in Illinois will close due to the coronavirus.

Some Chicago schools remained open Monday for one final day ahead of a mandated statewide closure beginning Tuesday. But why start the closures Tuesday? Sandra Torres reports.

Chicago’s Sheridan Math and Science Academy and Noble Charter Schools will be closed Monday after members of two schools contracted the coronavirus, according to letters sent to parents. In the letter to Sheridan Math and Science Academy families, Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson didn’t specify whether the person who contracted the coronavirus is a student, staff member or...

All Chicago Public Schools will offer free meals for students starting Tuesday during the nearly two-week school closure due to the coronavirus outbreak. Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered all schools to close through March 30 statewide in order to help contain the rapidly spreading virus. Free meals will be offered between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Monday through Friday at all…

All schools in Illinois, including Chicago Public Schools, will be closed until the end of March as the state continues efforts to combat a growing number of coronavirus cases, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Friday. The governor said all public and private schools in the state, including Chicago Public Schools, will close beginning Tuesday and stay closed through March 30. The…

Chicago Public Schools will remain open amid coronavirus concerns, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday, even as schools in other parts of the Chicago area decide to close or implement e-learning. “At this time, CPS will remain open,” Lightfoot said, noting the district is taking action to keep students and staff safe as COVID-19 cases in the city climb. CPS will…

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged people to avoid gatherings and stay home if they are sick. She also addressed the decision to keep Chicago Public Schools open amid the coronavirus outbreak in the city.

A Chicago attorney is asking the United States Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation into the treatment of special needs children in Chicago Public Schools. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers investigates.

A Chicago mother says bus service for her daughter who has special needs was suddenly stopped — an apparent effect of the coronavirus quaratine at a nearby school. Debra Johnson, whose daughter Amanda attends Northside Learning Center High School, said Amanda’s bus didn’t show up Monday. Both were caught off guard when they received a last-minute phone call saying...

Some CPS students weren’t picked up by school buses Monday due to a shortage of aides stemming from a coronavirus quarantine at a high school. NBC 5’s Kate Chappell reports.

Chicago’s Vaughn Occupational High School will be closed until March 18, Chicago Public Schools and health officials said Saturday, one day after revealing a classroom aide tested positive for the coronavirus. At a news conference Friday night, health officials said the employee — a Chicago resident in her 50s — was last present at the school on Monday, March 2….

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, along with Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Department of Public Health, announced that the 6th coronavirus patient in Illinois is a special education classroom assistant at Vaughn Occupation High School on Chicago’s North Side.

The sixth case of coronavirus in Illinois is a special education classroom assistant at Vaughn Occupation High School on Chicago’s North Side, Chicago Public Schools Chief Janice Jackson said.

Chicago Public Schools’ coronavirus plan, released to parents this week, leads with one overarching message: “If you’re sick, stay home.” And if you come to school sick, don’t expect to stay for long. “Students who are sick will be sent home immediately,” CPS said in a letter to parents, noting student absences will be marked as excused. “We will...

Nearly a dozen elementary school students were taken to hospitals Wednesday after pepper spray was discharged in a classroom. A student discharged the irritant about 2 p.m. in a third-floor classroom of Smyth Elementary, 1059 W. 13th St., according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford. Ten students were taken in good condition to Stroger and the University of Illinois…

Thanks to a decision reached at the Chicago Board of Education meeting Wednesday, students and faculty will now observe the second Monday in October as Indigenous People’s Day rather than as Columbus Day. Until now, Chicago Public Schools had celebrated both holidays, but Wednesday’s decision means that only Indigenous People’s Day will be celebrated. “I think it’s great, changing...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Americans to start preparing for a possible pandemic outbreak of the coronavirus in the United States, noting it’s not a question of “if” the outbreak will happen but “when.”