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Use Patch to watch select high school football games live on High School Cube. Tonight we bring you Marist vs. St. Patrick. The action starts at 7:30 p.m.
Use Patch to watch select high school football games live on High School Cube. Tonight we bring you Oak Lawn vs. Reavis. The action starts at 7 p.m.
The District 124 Board of Education and the union representing Evergreen Park teachers released their final contract offers. A notice to strike has already been filed.
Get a head start on the Halloween season with a free movie in the park.
Several schools were placed on lockdown as police searched for three suspects involved with a residential burglary in Evergreen Park Thursday afternoon.
Several schools were placed on lockdown as police searched for three suspects involved with a residential burglary in Evergreen Park Thursday afternoon.
The elderly person lived in the county's southern district, health officials said.
The Blackhawks Alumni & Friends Charity Softball Classic takes place this Sunday at Saint Xavier University.
A new national poll says 42 percent of Americans believe it should be against the law for teachers to go on strike. What do you think?
The faces of the picket line.
Teachers from Morgan Park High School voiced their reasons for striking to Ald. Matt O'Shea.
Evergreen Park police reports, Aug. 31.
Photos from last weekend's Taste of Mt. Greenwood.
Parents, teachers and students across the Beverly and Mt. Greenwood neighborhoods marched in support of the Chicago Teachers Union strike.
CPS will operate 144 schools for limited hours. We pulled together the closest.
The full press release from the Chicago Teachers Union on the CPS strike.
Patch put together a Storify to keep track of what the media, parents and teachers are saying about the strike.
For the first time in 25 years Chicago Public School teachers will be walking the picket line.
View the livestream of the game, or watch a replay after it concludes.
A fight broke out during the third quarter of the Morgan Park vs. Simeon football game Friday night, Sun-Times media reports.
