By MARISA GUERRA ECHEVERRIA Medill Illinois News Bureau news@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - Diverse interest groups - from public school activists and downstate voters to state officials and school boards - have pushed Gov. JB Pritzker to finally make a decision about the Trump administration's Education Freedom T...

By AIDAN KLINEMAN Medill Illinois News Bureau news@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary The Illinois Department of Transportation announced this week it will soon repay up to $60,000 in student loans for up to 50 eligible employees over four years as part of an initiative to attract recently graduated engineers in a...

By HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois hmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary Immigrant rights groups have filed federal tort claims against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over the Sept. 30, 2025, immigration raid on an apartment complex in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood. Roughly 300 immigratio...

By WMBD TV NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - A Unit 5 school district teacher is receiving a $10,000 grant to build a wellness room, focused on physical education. The wellness room will be called Wellness in Motion, and will aim to help students regulate their mind and body to focus on learning. "We happened to notice kind o...

By WMBD TV BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - Illinois Wesleyan University announced a new, first-of-its-kind program, focusing on interdisciplinary quantum science studies. The Fisher Quantum Center was funded by a $3.5 million donation from Ann and Alan Fisher who are alumni of the university. The program will bring undergra...

By JENNA SCHWEIKERT Capitol News Illinois jschweikert@capitolnewsillinois.com With just two weeks left in the spring legislative session, Illinois Senate Democrats introduced an eight-bill package aimed at regulating some uses of artificial intelligence after a lack of federal action on the issue. Illinois lawmaker...

By NIKOEL HYTREK Capitol News Illinois nhytrek@captiolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - Environmental advocates continue to pressure lawmakers to require more transparency about data centers' water and energy use as the legislative session creeps toward the finish line. The POWER Act is the primary vehicle for regulations...

By WMBD TV BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - The city of Bloomington announced its plans to discuss a temporary moratorium on hyperscale data centers at an upcoming meeting. The potential moratorium will be discussed at the Committee of the Whole on Monday, said city spokeswoman Katherine Murphy. This follows two public meeti...