After watching data sets be altered or disappear from government websites in unprecedented ways, statisticians, demographers ...

Columnist Rich Miller dives into the statewide races, the Cook County Democratic Party's endorsements and more.

All of this — the service cuts, the shuttered offices, the slow undoing of rural infrastructure — is happening in the background of an administration that claims to be restoring the health of the ...

The White House is pursuing heavy fines from Harvard and other universities as part of potential settlements to end ...

Chicago schoolchildren will see significantly fewer crossing guards on their way to class this fall, prompting concerns from ...

The impact of recent budget cuts will include fewer hot meals, delays in school repairs, curtailed crossing guard programs, ...

About $6.8 billion appropriated by Congress for states and local districts was supposed to be distributed on July 1.

Chicago Public Schools officials have yet to identify a solution for the district’s looming $734 million deficit, as the ...

The occasion is the 2025 Summit, hosted by the Democratic Mayors Association and led this year by Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb ...

When can a budget crisis not fairly be called a crisis? Perhaps when the crisis is something that’s been obviously coming for ...

From executive orders, bills passed to ongoing public arguments and more: here's how President Trump's second term has ...

The order aims to ban "pay-for-play" NIL deals, mandates scholarships for women's and Olympic sports and threatens to ...