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Inside Publications publishes the last family-owned and operated neighborhood newspapers serving the North Side of Chicago. The Inside-Booster, Skyline and News-Star newspapers can be traced back to 1904 with a weekly Rogers Park-based advertising circular that was the precursor to the newspapers.
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Lincoln Park

CPS to pay $700K to former Lincoln Park High School principals over unsubstantiated ‘sexual misconduct’ claims

September 2, 2025 7:08 PM Inside Publications
The Chicago Board of Education has agreed to pay $700,000 to John Thuet and Michelle Brumfield – the two former Lincoln Park High School [LPHS] principals abruptly fired in 2020 – closing their cases that lasted more than five years. This came after an ugly period at the North Side high school after claims of “adult on student sexual misconduct” shook the school community.

Edgewater

Biden commutes death sentence for Edgewater’s ‘Medicare Murderer’

December 29, 2024 7:09 AM Inside Publications
In one of his last official acts, President Joseph Biden this week commuted the death sentences of 37 federal prisoners held in Terre Haute, Indiana, and reclassified them to life sentences without the possibility of parole. One of those death row inmates was Chicago’s very own Ronald Mikos, a one-time North Side podiatrist convicted of murdering 54-year-old nurse Joyce S. Brannon in Edgewater on January 27, 2002.