J. Linn Allen

Incoming students at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University said Monday they are pondering the shape and meaning of the college education they will receive as they start a...

Merger talks between National-Louis University and Roosevelt University, which were announced with an upbeat flourish in February, have ended after months of only fitful progress. "Our boards have concluded it...

Jibran Ilyas was in the hot seat, the strange weblike stage now familiar to millions of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" watchers behind him. He was down to his...

University of Michigan provost Nancy Cantor was named chancellor of the University of Illinois' flagship campus in Urbana-Champaign on Tuesday, but the high expectations she and others have for her...

Illinois colleges and universities are doing an almost perfect job of preparing students to pass state teacher licensing tests, according to figures released by the schools Friday. But the figures,...

Wealthy industrialist Daniel Terra, the son of an Italian immigrant who lived and loved the American Dream, put his namesake museum in the heart of the Michigan Avenue shopping district...

Rev. John J. Piderit, the embattled president of Loyola University Chicago, today announced his resignation from the 130-year-old Jesuit Catholic institution. Piderit, who has been president since 1993, has recently...

A plan to place more than 1,000 students in a South Loop student and academic center is attracting big-name developers and architects, real estate sources say. Final plans for the...

As city crews mopped up the soupy mess left by a ruptured water main in the Loop early Monday, they knew a much graver task loomed in the hours and...

The much-ballyhooed plan to erect the world's tallest building in Chicago, which seemed to be going nowhere after the City Council approved the project in September, appears to be getting...