WASHINGTON–Despite unprecedented efforts to improve minority achievement in the past decade, the gap between Black and white students remains frustratingly wide, according to an Education Department report released Tuesday.
A federal appeals court has revived the fortunes of a decades-old Illinois law requiring teenage girls to notify their parents before getting abortions.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says he was inside his southwestern Michigan vacation home with his wife and three young grandchildren when one of his security guards apprehended an escaped murder convict outside.
Authorities are beginning the daunting task of trying to identify the people in each of the approximately 100,000 graves at a south suburban cemetery where four former workers allegedly dug up bodies to resell burial plots.
Former leaders from the University of Illinois are calling for sweeping change in light of a clout list that allowed politically connected students admission over more qualified applicants.
GRAND BEACH, Mich.— A convicted killer who was one of three inmates who escaped from the Indiana State Prison was caught Monday near the vacation home of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley by one of his bodyguards, and authorities warned residents nearb
Health care isn’t the only area of service in Illinois that has been impacted by state budget cuts. Community youth programs like AileyCamp Chicago have also been affected. The camp, an Alvin Ailey Dance Company program, runs for six weeks and serve
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.— Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has rated Illinois' homeland security program among the top four percent nationwide.
