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Automaker GM filed for bankruptcy Monday and the Obama administration said it will provide another $30 billion to keep the company operating, making the federal government the company's majority shareholder. President Obama said his administration's goal is to get GM back on its feet and to get the company out of bankruptcy quickly.

Over the last 15 years Illinois has seen a 57 percent increase in number of students choosing to go out-of-state for college—enough students to fill an…

NPR's correspondents update on the latest coronavirus news, including the effectiveness of infrared temperature checks and California's partial reopening.

Lynn Neary talks with Elizabeth Louden, one of the three co-principals of a research team at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Tex. Louden's group was contracted by the National Park Service to create a digital map of the Statute of Liberty. Since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the project takes on a new urgency.

Supporters of divestment ended their encampment last spring in exchange for a promise that their proposal for divestment would get a vote from the board this fall.

The Normal Town Council unanimously approved new rules for public comment Monday night, but not without resistance from its newest members.Previously the…

The Illinois State University Board of Trustees on Friday approved a naming rights deal for Redbird Arena. The venue will now be known as CEFCU Arena, with the Peoria-based credit union paying ISU $3.1 million over the next decade.

The $5.5 million project would add seven surgical beds and five intensive care beds to Peru by the end of 2025, for a total of 45 and 8, respectively.

In 2020, the Republican-controlled state legislature drew a new congressional map. The North Carolina Supreme Court subsequently threw out that map.

In the U.S. South — home to nine of the nation's 12 heaviest states — obesity is playing a role not only in COVID-19 outcomes but in the calculus of the vaccination rollout.