Illinois’ high school graduation rate has hit a 15-year high, as students continue to show academic growth above pre-pandemic levels, state officials announced Thursday with the release of the 2025 ...

Illinois students are showing continued growth especially in English language arts and mathematics, outpacing pre-pandemic levels, according to 2025 Illinois School Report Card data released Thursday.

For the first time since 2021, no District U-46 school has been deemed “comprehensive” or “intensive” in the 2025 Illinois Report Card, a designation that indicates it needs significant improvement.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WREX) — A metric measuring all Illinois schools' education progress was released. On Thursday, the Illinois State Board of Education published its 2025 Illinois Report Card, which ...

Illinois’ schools report card was released this week, and while it showed increased student proficiency in key areas, a scoring change sparked discussion. Those higher proficiency rates were found in ...

A partisan Democratic bill in the Illinois House would amend the state’s lottery law and set new regulations for gambling with credit cards. Sponsored by Reps. Curtis Tarver and Marti Deuter in the ...

Police in the northwest Chicago suburb of Palatine are asking the community for help in reopening a missing persons case that has been unsolved for 27 years. Anthony Klama, Tony for short, was ...

The state of Illinois has paused issuance and renewal of non-domiciled CDLs for non-citizen drivers with temporary work authorization there, according to a Freedom of Information Act request for ...

"My 10-month-old son has the cutest FOID card. Howard David Ludwig – affectionately nicknamed Bubba – received his state-issued Firearm Owner's Identification card two weeks ago. The wallet-size card ...

ROCKFORD (WREX) — The Illinois State Board of Education released the Illinois Report Card today, showing how schools around the state are performing based on certain metrics. Rockford Public Schools ...

The 2025 Illinois Report Card is being released on Thursday, Oct. 30. Provided Two metro-east public schools rank among the top 10% of highest-performing schools in the state, according to the new ...