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Hinsdale Township High School District 86 administrative center. (Pioneer Press)

Hinsdale High School district seeks members for planning group

By Pioneer Press

October 16, 2026 at 11:55 a.m.

Hinsdale High School District 86 is inviting community members to serve on its Strategic Planning...

Students at Morgan Park Academy in a science class. (Morgan Park Academy)

Morgan Park Academy reduces tuition, celebrates ranking as top private school

By Elena Tittel

October 16, 2026 at 6:30 a.m.

Morgan Park Academy staff said they will reduce baseline tuition costs signifcantly for the next...

Senior Jackson Young, 18, fills out his ballot during an early voting event, Oct. 15, 2026, at Oak Park and River Forest High School. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

‘Teen Takeover for Democracy’ draws election officials to Oak Park and River Forest High School

By Cam'ron Hardy

October 16, 2026 at 5:02 a.m.

Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon visited Oak Park and River Forest High School to encourage...

Chesterton High School juniors Lauren Yarosz, left, and Taryn Wellensiek watch as their bottle drops during the Bungee Drop event competition at the Indiana Science Olympiad state tournament at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Indiana Saturday April 5, 2025.(Andy Lavalley/for the Post-Tribune)

Science Olympiad competitors learn to expect the unexpected

By Michelle L. Quinn

April 7, 2025 at 11:54 a.m.

Most people seem to think that science is doing something and having it work the...

Gary Community School Corporation chief human resources officer Jovanka Cvitkovich, on left, speaks to prospective teacher, Gary resident Danielle Nichols, during the eighth annual Indiana University Northwest-hosted teacher recruitment fair on Friday, April 4, 2025. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

New teachers in demand at IUN recruitment fair

By Carole Carlson

April 6, 2025 at 3:03 p.m.

Aspiring teachers found themselves in the driver’s seat at Friday’s teacher recruitment fair sponsored by...

Ron Harrigan, of Crete, was the first band director when Southland College Prep Charter High School opened in 2010 in Richton Park, while also teaching at Huth Middle School in Matteson. (Ron Harrigan)

Ron Harrigan named Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra’s first music educator of the year

By Jessi Virtusio

April 6, 2025 at 12:58 p.m.

Soaring Strings concert at Olympia Fields Country Club will honor Southland College Prep director of...

FILE – Students help put away supplies at the end of a reading and writing lesson at the Head Start program run by Easterseals, an organization that gets about a third of its funding from the federal government, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to cut teacher-training money, for now

By Associated Press

April 4, 2025 at 4:03 p.m.

The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s plea to cut hundreds of millions...

Rich Township High School District 227 Superintendent Johnnie Thomas is leading the charge to open a Southland Career and Technical Education Center in Park Forest by 2028. (Olivia Stevens/Daily Southtown)

Southland schools hope to create career and technical center at former Rich East High School

By Olivia Stevens

April 4, 2025 at 4:44 p.m.

A career and technical center at the former Rich East campus would serve high school...

Mayor Brandon Johnson answers questions during a news conference at City Hall where he talked about the Chicago Teachers Union contract, April 1, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson landed a teachers union deal. Was it worth it?

By Nell Salzman

April 4, 2025 at 11:47 a.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's critics are already pledging to pounce on his close alliance with the...

Ben Quattrone, left, who has made deals with University of Illinois athletes to promote his chain of car dealerships, greets Treanette Redding and her son Terrence Shannon Jr., a former Illinois basketball star, at a home game in February. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

In a big-money era, University of Illinois shrugs off rules on athletes’ NIL deals

By Stacy St. Clair

April 14, 2025 at 2:41 p.m.

Illinois’ flagship university says rules requiring student-athletes to disclose NIL deals aren’t relevant In the...

Merrillville High Principal Mike Krutz flips the tassel of Royale Miller, 18, signifying her graduation from Merrillville High School in 2020. State officials have announced new partners for different diploma options.

Indiana officials detail partners for new high school diploma options

By Carole Carlson

April 3, 2025 at 3:42 p.m.

Gov. Mike Braun and Secretary of Education Katie Jenner announced three specific diploma options Wednesday...

Officials and others gather for a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday, March 29, outside a three-story rowhouse style building in Chicago’s North Pullman neighborhood that is planned to the site for the new Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Ladies Auxiliary Women’s History Museum. (Susan DeGrane/Daily Southtown)

New museum in Pullman to recognize role of Black women in labor movement

By Susan DeGrane

April 4, 2025 at 2:57 p.m.

A Ladies Auxiliary Women’s History Museum is planned near the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman...

DePaul University student Michael Kaminsky, left, looks on as fellow student Max Long talks about a lawsuit they filed against the school during a news conference outside Daley Plaza on April 2, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Two students sue DePaul University after alleged antisemitic attack on campus

By Carolyn Stein

April 2, 2025 at 5:33 p.m.

Two DePaul University students filed a lawsuit Wednesday morning against their university, alleging that DePaul...