1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (892+ words) Jessica Rule, 18, entered Illinois State University this school year ready to step into musical theater as a major. Javon Phillips, 18, left his Austin community for Northern Illinois University with his eyes on a future that includes computer science. The pair…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (801+ words) The Chicago school board is weighing a resolution that would direct Chicago Public Schools to study how it could expand preschool and bilingual early learning opportunities. The proposal would launch a two-year review of the district’s preschool system, including staffing,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (253+ words) Gambling is nothing new in Chicago. Legal gambling is. City Hall’s handling of it still looks like the rackets of yore. With a suffocating debt and pension load, and another looming budget deficit, Chicago cannot afford incoherence on this important…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (818+ words) Days after pausing construction on nearly all non-gaming amenities at its $1.7 billion casino complex going up in River West, Bally’s Corporation issued a going concern warning related to liquidity issues. The warning, part of Bally’s second quarter earnings filing Friday…...