Education

Illinois universities will offer a direct admissions program for high-achieving Illinois students among other new laws.

Illinois trades competition held this spring in Peoria highlights the challenges of diverse hiring in skills jobs.

A recently passed bill would ensure right to free public K-12 education in Illinois regardless of immigration status.

The recent legislative session concluded without passage of a bill to establish a new formula for funding public universities.

Newly uncovered letters offer insight into Mary Lincoln’s mental health, 150 years after her controversial commitment.

The Vatican announced Thursday that a Chicago native has been named the newest pope and the first American elected to...

AG Kwame Raoul helped secure an injunction granting Illinois access to $77 million in federal education funds.

A new report says the 2-plus-2 model of higher education, where community college students seamlessly transfer to universities, is faltering...

Two Democratic leaders disagreed on the governor’s community college four-year degree plan this week.

A plan to overhaul funding of public universities in Illinois is drawing opposition from the U of I system.