The bill now heads to Gov. JB Pritzker, who has been a vocal advocate for limiting cellphone use in the classroom. It’s quite ...

Chicago is holding its first full Board of Education election, with all 21 seats on the ballot as the city moves toward a ...

The Will County Sheriff’s Department in Illinois detained a boy who allegedly planned a shooting at Grand Prairie Elementary ...

"Teen takeovers" are instances in which large groups of youths use social media to gather at a designated time and public ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- High in the cottonwood trees on the Southeast Side of Chicago, a couple of eagles built a nest for their eaglets! ABC7 caught one eaglet watching the world, and perhaps us, from its ...

Dozens of northern Dublin City Schools parents and students packed a sidewalk along Glick Road in Delaware County to protest the district's high school redistricting efforts. The protesters don't want ...

Families across the Chicago area may have no idea they’re being watched. What’s at stake? Their children’s public education. An NBC 5 Responds investigation exposed how some school districts use ...

When Talia Giorno, a junior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, tried to log in to Canvas to prepare for her final exams, she encountered what she thought was a short outage. It turns out ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis, shown releasing his proposed budget, wants a state “DOGE” to look for waste in government. TALLAHASSEE --- Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Monday a new congressional map – drawn ...

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating 36 Illinois school districts — including several in the Chicago area — over whether they are teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity in ...

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said it is investigating 35 Illinois school districts, including several in the suburbs, and a Chicago charter operator to see if they are teaching about ...