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Passengers board a Pace bus as a CTA Green Line train pulls in near the intersection of Harlem and South Boulevard in Oak Park, Friday, June 20, 2025. Students at Oak Park and River Forest High School who don't have a ride to school will have to continue to rely on public transportation after the School District 200 board renewed an expeption from a rule requiring them to provide school bus services. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Despite petition, Oak Park and River Forest High School renews school bus exemption

By Cam'ron Hardy

October 9, 2026 at 4:40 p.m.

School buses are too expensive, board tells Oak Park and River Forest High students who...

Dayna Schmidt-Johnson, of Chicago, helps block the wind as organizer Idgie Kelley lights candles during a solidarity event for survivors of sexual assault at Trinity Lutheran Church in Valparaiso, Indiana, Thursday, October 8, 2026. Kelley, of Griffith, said 185 candles were lit to represent reports of sexual assault from the top five Indiana universities in 2024. (Andy Lavalley/for the Post-Tribune)

Valparaiso vigil brings to light sexual assaults on college campuses

By Amy Lavalley

October 9, 2026 at 4:18 p.m.

There were no megaphones, no marches, no speeches -- just tealight candles on two tables,...

Lincoln Park High School students walk out in support of "Jane Doe" and survivors of sexual violence on the “National Day of Action” on Oct. 8 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

‘We need to be speaking out’: High school, college students across Illinois protest sexual violence

By Kate Perez

October 9, 2026 at 9:08 a.m.

Students across Chicago and the state walked out of class, demonstrated, and advocated for the...

Bardwell Elementary, seen here in 2025, is one of the elementary schools in East Aurora School District in Aurora. The district is planning a pilot program next school year in which elementary social studies would be embedded within language arts courses. (Molly Morrow/The Beacon-News)

East Aurora School District to pilot combining language arts and social studies for elementary students

By Molly Morrow

May 20, 2026 at 3:04 p.m.

The district is looking to try embedding social studies instruction within language arts courses for...

Anthony Spears, of Crete, recently was named Photographer of the Year at the Christopher Gallery at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights. (Janice Neumann/Daily Southtown)

‘Making beautiful things’ earns Photographer of the Year award for Crete resident

By Janice Neumann

May 20, 2026 at 11:33 a.m.

Crete resident Anthony Spears photographs earned him Photographer of the Year honors at Prairie State...

Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith, shown Friday, April 17, 2026, supports allowing partisan affiliations in school board races, though the measure has several detractors. (Doug Ross/for the Post-Tribune)

Indiana school board candidates have Dem or GOP labels for first time under Republican law

By Carole Carlson

May 20, 2026 at 10:51 a.m.

Voters might be scratching their heads in November when they see party labels attached to...

The main entrance of Thornton Fractional North High School in Calumet City, Sept. 4, 2024. (Vincent D. Johnson/Daily Southtown)

Thornton Fractional officials ‘scrambling, trying to figure it out’ amid federal gender ideology probe

By Olivia Stevens

May 19, 2026 at 4:06 p.m.

District 215 is named in a federal investigation of “sexual orientation and gender ideology” teachings...

Charges expected after Lake Central fight Monday

By Carole Carlson

May 19, 2026 at 2:28 p.m.

Officials said a fight erupted during a lunch period Monday at Lake Central High School...

The Valparaiso City Council unanimously appointed Kaye Frataccia-Seibert to a four-year term on the board of Valparaiso Community Schools at a special meeting Monday, May 18, 2026. (Shelley Jones/for the Post-Tribune)

Valparaiso council selects Kaye Frataccia-Seibert for school board seat

By Shelley Jones

May 19, 2026 at 2:19 p.m.

Citing her deep background of “institutional knowledge,” the Valparaiso City Council unanimously appointed Kaye Frataccia-Seibert...

Student’s cellphones in a box, in a classroom at Disney II Magnet School in Chicago, Thursday, March 13, 2025. The Gary School Board approved a “bell to bell” cellphone policy, with some members skeptical about how to enforce the new Indiana law. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

New ban prohibits phones in schools and on school buses in Gary

By Carole Carlson

May 19, 2026 at 10:14 a.m.

The Gary School Board unanimously approved a “bell to bell” cellphone policy May 14, with...

Festival attendees watch a DJ performance at Lollapalooza, Aug. 1, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

$1.7 million grant from Lollapalooza to expand CPS arts education access

By Kate Perez

May 19, 2026 at 1:28 p.m.

A new grant tied to Lollapalooza will give arts programming in Chicago Public Schools a...

Rica Bouso, of Chicago, points out details of Gene Cernan’s spacesuit, worn the Apollo 10 mission, to her son Ander during a retirement party for the spacesuit and 12 other items from the 1969 mission, on Sunday, May 17, 2026 at the Cernan Earth and Space Center at Triton College in River Grove. (Steve Metsch/Pioneer Press)

Gene Cernan’s Apollo 10 spacesuit gets a ‘retirement party’ at Triton before shipping back to Smithsonian

By Steve Metsch

May 18, 2026 at 3:10 p.m.

The spacesuit NASA astronaut Gene Cernan wore in the 1969 Apollo 10 mission is heading...

Merrillville’s Pierce Middle School Principal Candace Lillie is the new principal at the Gary West Side Leadership Academy. (Photo provided by Candace Lillie)

New principal taking reins at Gary West Side

By Carole Carlson

May 18, 2026 at 2:01 p.m.

Merrillville’s Pierce Middle School Principal Candace Lillie is the new principal at the Gary West...