Pictures: Talk To The Hand (In Chicago)

Meet Karen Lewis, the feisty science teacher who just won the race to head the Chicago Teachers Union. 

Lewis defeated Marilyn Stewart, who ran the union during most of the Duncan era and infamously (to many of her members) allowed the Board to implement a performance pay pilot program that was recently found not to have worked.  Read below for coverage of Lewis' win and what it might or might not mean for the Windy City.

New CTU president is a fierce foe of Daley's agenda Sun Times:  Karen Lewis, a high school chemistry teacher who has been a fierce opponent of Mayor Daley's Renaissance 2010 program to shake up and rejuvenate public schools, handily defeated two-term president Marilyn Stewart for the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union early Saturday... Karen Lewis elected president of Chicago Teachers Union Tribune:  "The only people who can improve our public schools are professional educators," Lewis said on Saturday morning to raucous applause from about three dozen union members in the lobby of King College Prep High School on the South Side... New CTU Pres. Challenges Daley's Agenda Fox:  Karen Lewis, a high school chemistry teacher who has been a fierce opponent of Mayor Daley's Renaissance 2010 program to shake up and rejuvenate public schools, handily defeated two-term president Marilyn Stewart for the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union early Saturday... Unfiltered: Chicago Teachers Union President-Elect Karen Lewis WBEZ: Karen Lewis, president-elect of the Chicago Teachers Union, spoke to supporters Saturday at King College Prep High School, 4445 S. Drexel Blvd., after clinching the union race wtih 59 percent of the vote.