An underdog is being celebrated with a new title more than 25 years after he was created to unite Center Point and Urbana.

Here are the boys athletes from around Peoria who advanced to compete Saturday on the final day of the IHSA track season.

A car’s crash into an after-school program building in central Illinois – a wreck that killed four people ages 7 to 18 and injured six other children – does not appear to have been a ...

The number one overall rated Illinois high school football 5-star recruit is the defensive lineman, Iose Epenesa, out of Edwardsville High School located in Edwardsville, Illinois. Epenesa is ...

Schools across Illinois are set to lose roughly $77.25 million after an unexpected funding cut from the Department of Education. Another big change from the Department of Education late last month has ...

(WAND) - Secretary of State and State Librarian Alexi Giannoulias has awarded more than $1.3 million to 2,484 Illinois public school libraries. The grants are awarded in the spring of every fiscal ...

(WAND) — A monumental bill to ban Illinois ... could apply to schools using the team names Redskins, Braves, Chiefs, Chieftains, Tribe, Indians, or any synonymous term, logo or mascot depicting ...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights announced on Thursday that it is launching an investigation into the Illinois Department of Education, the Chicago Public School District ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Illinois public schools are not changing curriculum as it relates to LGBTQ+ issues. State Supt. Tony Sanders sent a message to school leaders last week, instructing them to ...

The initial distribution of 1,000 kits will reach about 25% of Illinois’ roughly 4,400 public schools, including Chicago Public and Lake County schools, where many of the state’s adopted ...

The district’s new branding was presented at a Monday, Jan. 27 school board meeting. The branding will apply to the general district and not replace the logo or colors of any particular school.

(The Center Square) – Starting Jan. 1, Illinois schools will be face new mandates and bans. State Sen. Rachel Ventura, D-Joliet, sponsored a bill requiring school districts to provide students ...