As part of NPR's Climate Solutions Week, you'll learn about efforts to make sustainability and recycling easier for college students in Illinois. Because one student’s trash is another’s treasure come the next semester.

Normal City Manager Pam Reece said the Federal Railroad Administration has assured the town it's OK with the delay.

The school district requested a change of venue to a federal court in Peoria. Angela Sutton claims administrators repeatedly ignored concerns about her transgender child being bullied at school.

A bill introduced in the Illinois legislature would allow teachers to challenge notices of remedy, actions that go against school policy but can be fixed. Opponents have raised concern that this could erase documentation of patterns of abuse by teachers.

The Unit 5 school board on Wednesday approved a roughly $180,000, three-year contract with ParentSquare to be the district’s universal communications platform.

“The fans stay excited, we stay excited and we keep making records," Phil Lewis from L.A. Guns told WGLT. They play alongside Cinderella's Tom Keifer on May 28 at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts.

The Illinois Senate advanced 40 bills on Wednesday, including a ban on “junk fees” and a bill allowing minors to consent to receiving birth control services without the need for a parent or other person’s consent.

Bloomington-Normal could soon be home to a second state-supported manufacturing training academy — this time based at Rivian. State officials announced the development during a visit to Rivian on Tuesday.

Bloomington resident Adrienne Overmeyer said Applied Behavior Analysis, a therapy commonly used to address challenging behaviors among autistic clients, helped her son become more independent.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has submitted a letter to the Department of Homeland Security demanding information about whether the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good is working in her state. The federal government has attempted to shield Ross from investigation after he shot Good three times during a Jan. 7 immigration operation in Minneapolis.

The CEO and founder of COII wants to design long-term, cost-effective homes focused on sustainability and wellness. She's planning 22 homes and townhomes on Bloomington's west side.

U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen, a Democrat who represents parts of Bloomington-Normal and Peoria, wants to stop pharmaceutical companies from gaming an FDA loophole he says is keeping generics from reaching the market.