Health care unions continue to rally for legislation to address understaffing they say strains hospitals and threatens both patient safety and staff well-being.

Heartland Head Start interim executive director Chuck Hartseil said it’s not clear what options they would have to sustain programming if Congress were to approve wiping out funding.

Republican state lawmakers have signaled they want to ban transgender girls from competing on girls school sports teams in Illinois.

Advocates for after-school programs that provide tutoring, recreation and other services made their case again Tuesday for a $50 million state appropriation to restore programs in some schools where funding has run out and to expand them into more schools.

Heartland Community College and Millikin University announced a new transfer partnership that will make the transition between schools easier for Heartland graduates.

With hate crimes rising across Illinois in the last five years, lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow people to sue if they receive threatening flyers on private property due to protected identity characteristics.

El Paso's Project XV voting rights museum began as a class project in Michael Melick's course. The state historical society gives a $1,000 prize to one teacher each year for outstanding ways of engaging Illinois history.

Those working on the front lines of the state’s child welfare system have a new, high-tech simulation training space in Normal.

The City of Bloomington has announced the 2025 winners of its annual Black History Essay Contest. You'll hear them this month on WGLT's Sound Ideas, or you can listen on-demand below.

Illinois State University President Aondover Tarhule is one of over 400 college and university leaders who’ve co-signed a public statement opposing what they call “unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education.”