Illinois Wesleyan University

As the Trump administration sends National Guard soldiers to Chicago, a half dozen Illinois State University students have been called to active duty this week.

Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told a crowd of about 1,200 people at Illinois Wesleyan University on Monday night that Bloomington-Normal favorite son Adlai Stevenson II was her commencement speaker the year she graduated college.

Symbio Bioculinary does not concern submission combat or landscaping businesses, it upcycles food waste to tackle the over 30% of meals thrown out in the United States.

Ed Rust Jr. was the inaugural speaker of Illinois Wesleyan University's newest speaker series, featuring influential business leaders. It's called the Kinder Brothers Speaker Series — named for alumni Jack and Garry Kinder, founders of Kinder Brothers International.

Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will visit both Twin City universities next month – including one event that’s free and open to the public.

The matriarch of a prominent Bloomington-Normal business family has died. Linda Shirk was 79.

Nearly 600 new students began classes at the Bloomington campus this fall. Almost half are student-athletes.

The City of Bloomington will hold an Inclusion & Access Compliance Symposium from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 26 at Heartland Community College’s Astroth Building.

The number of international students attending Bloomington-Normal colleges and universities will be down significantly when classes begin this month because of the anti-immigration stance of the Trump administration.

It’s the end of an era for Illinois Wesleyan University’s School of Theatre Arts, which housed a bodiless Aphrodite head on top of their building for more than two decades.