10th District Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer joins the Steve Cochran Show to delve into why Mayor Brandon Johnson is not wanted at Officer Luis Huesca’s funeral, the Cook County Land Bank Authority’s milestone of celebrating its 2,000th home, and the source of funds for the City Council’s approval of $70 million for migrant support.
China Mini Market and Ji The Chicken Shop have opened on Smithford Way
The opening of a new ‘flagship’ Sheffield city centre hotel with a rooftop bar and restaurant has been delayed. The new Radisson Blu hotel on Pinstone Street, opposite the Peace Gardens, was scheduled to welcome its first guests on June 10. Booking was due to open during the week commencing March 25, yet nearly a month later it is still not yet possible to book a room at the upmarket 154-bedroom hotel. Now Sheffield City Council has confirmed that the opening has been pushed back slightly. ...
A man has tragically died in a car crash at Park Square roundabout, police have announced. The man, aged 81, died at the scene of the incident, say officers, and the roundabout was partially closed for several hours while emergency services dealt with the incident. South Yorkshire Police and Yorkshire Ambulance Service were on the scene Police were called out at 11.30am yesterday and say that the collision, at the roundabout’s junction with Exchange Place, involved a silver Jaguar XF and a white...
Suspending children from school is something we rarely see from educators, especially at primary level. Teachers aim to keep kids in school, where they are safe, fed and learning. However, for a multitude of reasons, senior leadership can and do decide to temporarily suspend pupils from school. Suspensions and permanent exclusions data, published in a Gov.uk package in April 2024, includes figures revealing which Sheffield primary schools handed out the most suspensions in the 2021-22 academic...
These Sheffield schools and nurseries came top of the class last month after all of them were rated ‘good’ by Ofsted. Subscribe to The Star’s newsletter for all the latest news in Sheffield delivered straight to your inbox. New figures show how every Steel City classroom visited by the education watchdog in April was given a thumbs-up by inspectors, with all of them being upgraded or maintaining their ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ grade. None of them slipped down to ‘requires improvement’ or...
It is extremely rare for educators to decide that a pupil cannot return to their schools - it is the absolute last resort, when all other options have been exhausted. Children must be in education. It is a legal requirement and means if a child is subject to a permanent exclusion from one school then the local authority must arrange full-time education as soon as possible. They are so rare that in Sheffield only seven of the 153 primary schools within the local authority issued them in the...
Sheffield city centre is undergoing a major transformation, with a new hotel, a huge food hall and a clutch of exciting independent shops opening soon. Fargate is undergoing a major overhaul too, while the old Cole Brothers department store and the former Kingdom nightclub are both set for a new lease of life. These pictures show how much Sheffield city centre has changed since the 1980s and 90s, with some areas barely recognisable. Lost pubs, old cinemas and much-missed shops all feature in...
Suspending pupils from schools is never the first port of call for teachers. It is a measure that can be taken for a multitude of reasons and often after alternatives have been exhausted. They are small periods when pupils are temporarily removed from a school - returning after a set, short period of time. Secondary schools often have larger pupil headcounts, bringing children from across Sheffield into their establishments with aims of giving them the best starts to adulthood they possibly can....
The upcoming GCSE exam season may be returned to normal after the pandemic - but after all the disruption, some pressure might this year be taken off pupils who studied through Covid-19. The Department foe Education has confirmed there will be no ‘Progress 8’ reports published for schools for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 academic years. The score is a measure for assessing schools based on how well pupils did in their KS2 results compared to the end of KS4 when they did their GCSEs. Positive scores...
Each day when a parent sends their child off to school, the safety of their student is top of mind.
Large numbers of New York City police officers began entering the Columbia University as dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters remained on the campus.