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Valerie Santos, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Illinois Chicago, looks out a window. She's wearing a black sweater and a necklace with a small pendant -- her hair is wavy, brown and goes just past her shoulders.

Medical schools enroll fewer Blacks, Hispanics from Illinois after Supreme Court's affirmative action ban

While other factors are also at play since the ruling, the number of Hispanic medical students from Illinois plummeted by 42.6% between the 2023-24 school year and this year, data shows. The number of Black students decreased by 6.5%, and mixed race students decreased by 8.3%.

Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln will not be rebuilt under the state’s prison rebuild plan. Instead, two prisons will be built in Crest Hill.

Illinois seeks two Crest Hill prisons, leaving Lincoln out of Logan Correctional Center rebuild plan

Despite local hopes to rebuild Logan Correctional Center in its original Lincoln location, the Illinois Department of Corrections announced it plans to build a women’s facility in Crest Hill, near Joliet.

Report Renews Calls For Consolidation, Service Sharing Of Illinois’ 9,000 Local Governments

Illinois has long held the record for the most units of local government in any state — 8,923 local taxing bodies to be exact, according to a recent...

Promotional graphic for the radio show *Out and About* on WCBU 89.9 FM (NPR Network). The theme reads “Pysanky and Healing.” The layout includes a portrait photo of featured guest Crystal Pothoff on the right, wearing glasses and a maroon sweater with a pendant necklace. On the left are colorful decorated pysanky eggs. Text notes the show is presented by PNC and includes “Listen Here” with podcast platform icons.

‘Breaking Free’ is a community art project on the meditative folk art of pysanky

On this week's episode of Out and About, Dr. Mae Gilliland of ArtsPartners of Central Illinois talks with Crystal Potthoff, artist and facilitator of ‘Breaking Free’, a community art project centered on the meditative folk art of pysanky.

A springtime of music with the Heartland Festival Orchestra

On this week's episode of Out and About, Dr. Mae Gilliland Wright of ArtsPartners of Central Illinois talks with Heartland Festival Orchestra's Artistic Director David Commanday about the Musical Fables concert, taking place at the ICC Performing Arts Center on March 2, as well as another very special upcoming event celebrating the HFO's 15th anniversary.

'Anything's Possible' is a Gen Z rom-com — with a Black trans girl at the center

NPR's Juana Summers talks with actress Eva Reign, who stars in Billy Poter's directorial debut, Anything's Possible, about what the film meant for her.

Italian architect Renzo Piano talks to journalists in Paris in 2014.

Architect Renzo Piano: The Future Of Europe's Cities Is In The Suburbs

In the 1960s and '70s, Piano was involved in the battle to revive decaying historic centers of cities. Now the Pritzker Prize-winning architect is fighting to save their often desolate outskirts.

House Democrats surround Rep. Robyn Gabel, D-Evanston, as they vote on the fiscal year 2027 budget in the early hours of June 1, 2026.

Session slog ends in $56 billion budget, new taxes on social media companies, crypto, fantasy sports

Illinois lawmakers approved the state budget early Monday morning after slogging through the night, enacting new taxes on businesses and authorizing less spending than what Gov. JB Pritzker proposed in February.

A cancer center in Jordan treats kids from Gaza, but only a few dozen have arrived

Children from Gaza with cancer are finally making it to Jordan for long-promised treatment. But a plan to allow as many as 2,000 patients out of the war-torn enclave has slowed.

Citizen's arrest law could take center stage in trial over Ahmaud Arbery's killing

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Rashawn Ray about the nuances and problems associated with citizen's arrest laws.

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