Garbage complaints are mounting at Eugene Field Park, but Chicago’s policy leaves the encampment in place for now.

Chicago Public Schools is adding 15 campuses to its Sustainable Community Schools model, but the expansion arrives amid a fight over $150 million in state funding.

Illinois Tech cut approximately 160 faculty and staff just before fall classes, leaving Chicago students worried about canceled courses, missing advisers and disrupted research.

New books and school supplies were found in dumpsters outside Fuentes Elementary in Avondale as CPS took over the former Acero campus. Neighbors salvaged what they could before rain ruined much of it.

Evanston high school students started moving a two-story house they built in class six blocks across town. The project will become permanently affordable housing.

Kankakee’s Gift of God shelter won a 7-0 planning vote for 12 transitional-housing beds. Funding and staffing could determine whether the program ever opens.

A North Lawndale youth boxing nonprofit has nearly tripled its daily capacity with a new Lawndale Plaza facility.

Randy Travis and his wife flew to the Chicago area to fulfill a cancer patient’s wish at City of Hope.

Chicago-area naturalizations have fallen more than 80% in 2026, federal data shows, leaving permanent residents stuck in a growing citizenship backlog.

Chicago will retrace Martin Luther King Jr.’s explosive 1966 Marquette Park march with surviving participants, Bernice King, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Common.

A Hillside woman found her mother’s headstone missing from its plot. The cemetery returned it, but questions about notice and authorization remain.

The University of Illinois Board of Trustees released a leadership profile and launched a national search for the system’s next president as Tim Killeen prepares to step down. Trustees have hired AGB Search and held campus listening sessions.

Loyola University Chicago will stop admitting students to its M.A. in Hispanic Studies while current students may finish. Scholars and LASA are urging the university to reconsider.