Peter Medlin

As schools look for COVID silver linings, one small district saw a major need in their community that they could fill.

Over 10,000 people incarcerated in Illinois prisons have tested positive for COVID-19 during the pandemic -- that’s one out of every three people...

The Biden Administration announced schools still have to do standardized tests during the pandemic. Lynn Gibson says even Illinois superintendents are...

Illinois K-12 teachers will soon get their first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. They’re in Phase1B of the state’s vaccine rollout, which starts on Monday...

December is usually the time when families sit in crowded stuffy school gymnasiums for the annual elementary school holiday concert. But because of COVID-19, local music programs had to get creative.

Illinois voters said “no” to the graduated income tax on Tuesday. More than 100 labor groups including the Illinois Education Association came out in...

Northern Illinois University is expanding COVID-19 testing efforts into what some might consider an unexpected place: wastewater. Dr. Barrie Bode was...

With weeks until election day, Illinois is breaking early voting records. Residents are voting in person, by mail and delivering ballots to drop boxes....

Illinois has devoted more than $230 million across every county in the state for COVID-19 contact tracing. Randall Jeffay has been on the job at the...

Move-in day is normally a frenzy. At large schools like Northern Illinois University, thousands of students descend onto campus; student organizations...