The Chicago teachers' strike is over.
The Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates voted Tuesday to end its strike after seven days, meaning classes will be in session Wednesday for 350,000 Chicago Public Schools students.
"Everybody is going back to school," said Jay Rehak, a delegate from Whitney Young High School.
Delegate Mike Bochner said "an overwhelming majority" of delegates voted to suspend the strike on a voice vote.
"I'm really excited, I'm really relieved," said Bochner, a teacher at Cesar Chavez elementary.
At a press conference a short time after the vote, CTU President Karen Lewis said the vote was approved by a margin of "like 98 percent to 2."
"There are some people that are going to be die-hard hold-outs," she said.
" ... We said that it was time, that we couldn't solve all the problems of the world with one contract. And it was time to suspend the strike."
Chicago Public Schools wasted no time embracing the news. A banner went up on its website shortly after the vote.
"Information alert: CTU leadership has chosen to end the strike. All CPS schools will be re-open Wednesday, September 19," it read. "Chicago Teachers Union leadership has chosen to end the strike. All Chicago Public Schools will re-open on Wednesday, September 19, and all CPS students are expected to be back in the classroom."