Don Babwin

Chicago

Associated Press reporter in Chicago who covers the police beat and general assignment. dbabwin(at)http://t.co/2rwoi28CmW

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Chicago teachers strike in bitter contract dispute

Jan 27, 2025 | madison.com | Don Babwin |Sophia Tareen

CHICAGO — For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation's third-largest city — and to a national audience — less than a week after most schools opened for fall. The walkout forced hundreds of thousands of parents to scramble for a place to send idle children and created an unwelcome political distraction for Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Chicago man sentenced to federal prison for meth distribution in southeastern Iowa

Jan 26, 2024 | muscatinejournal.com | Leanna Faulk |Jamiel Lynch |Don Babwin |Nick Perry

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Two little blue penguins just couldn't stay away from a New Zealand sushi store, returning to nest there even after police had captured them and escorted them back to the ocean. Wellington police described them as "waddling vagrants," while the store's co-owner joked he had no idea that word of his tasty raw fish had reached as far as the subaquatic community.