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 ...

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 withhold funds from schools who don't comply. But its legality is in question.

A motion is pending review by the L.A. City Council that seeks clarity around the contracts struck with AECOM and Hagerty ...