Child Care

Heartland Community College is expanding child care so students with kids can take evening classes, do research, and meet with faculty.

Working parents face serious challenges coming out of the pandemic, but access to quality childcare and public transportation are not unique to the COVID-19 era.

Thousands more families in Illinois will soon be eligible for subsidized child care and child care providers will see a pay raise under a series of initiatives that Gov. JB Pritzker announced Thursday.

The YWCA McLean County and Iron Coyote Challenge Park offer programs for kids during school closures.

Advocates for early childhood education say that preschool is a critical time in a child's social-emotional development. Programs like universal pre-k could remove barriers to accessing educational programs for young learners.

Districts last year relied on metrics to determine whether to hold in-person learning. This year, the State Board of Education says schools will not go remote. That has a lot of parents worried.

Child care programs have fewer restrictions than they did last summer when COVID-19 was fresh and uncertain. But parents could still have a hard time finding somewhere to send their kids.

Gov. JB Pritzker announced Friday that $1.6 billion in federal funding will be allocated toward early childhood education and child care providers in…

A commission that Gov. JB Pritzker appointed in 2019 will soon issue a report calling for a complete overhaul in the way the state handles its budget for…

After an executive order from Gov. JB Pritzker that set monthly copayments for child care services to $1 for all families expired last month, a House…