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Community colleges renew push for four-year degrees, but universities push back

By Christopher Placek
Apr 29, 2025 7:07 pm - Harper College and other community colleges are lobbying legislators for the right to offer four-year bachelor’s degrees in select fields, but the proposal faces opposition from universities who fear duplication of efforts.
After-school programs continue push for state aid

By Peter Hancock
Apr 29, 2025 6:49 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Advocates for after-school programs that provide tutoring, recreation and other services made their case again Tuesday for a $50 million state appropriation...
USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources and records show

By Jacob Bogage and Hannah Natanson
Apr 29, 2025 6:16 pm - The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has quietly begun cooperating with federal immigration officials to locate people suspected of being in the country ill...
Naperville’s Cress Creek Garden Club honors scholarship winners

Submitted by Sally Johnson
Apr 29, 2025 5:11 pm - Cress Creek Garden Club will honor scholarships winners majoring in forestry, landscape design, botany, and horticulture at June 13 luncheon.
New crosswalk in store for Illinois Avenue in St. Charles this summer

By David Petesch
Apr 29, 2025 4:15 pm - Illinois Avenue in downtown St. Charles could be easier to cross later this year as the city gets ready to approve construction contracts for a new crosswalk near the river.
Shuttered Prospect Heights hotel suggested for senior housing as prior taxes pursued

By Eric Peterson
Apr 29, 2025 4:11 pm - The new owner of the abruptly closed Crowne Plaza Chicago-Northbrook hotel in Prospect Heights has already made an informal proposal to the city to convert the 318-room building into a senior-living facility, city officials said.
Canadian prime minister's Liberals fall short of a majority in Parliament

By ROB GILLIES
Apr 29, 2025 3:49 pm - TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals celebrated election victory in a stunning turn of fortune but fell short Tuesday of winning an outright majority ...
The EPA is canceling nearly 800 environmental justice grants, court filing reveals

By Maxine Joselow and Amudalat Ajasa
Apr 29, 2025 3:41 pm - The Environmental Protection Agency plans to cancel a total of 781 grants issued under President Joe Biden, EPA lawyers wrote in a little-noticed court filing last week, ...
Supreme Court seems likely to rule narrowly for family whose house was wrongly raided by FBI

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Apr 29, 2025 3:38 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to rule narrowly in favor of a family trying to hold federal law enforcement accountable in court after an FBI raid w...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting sues Trump after attempted board firings

By Scott Nover and Herb Scribner
Apr 29, 2025 3:27 pm - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a nonprofit organization created by Congress that provides funding to public broadcasters such as NPR and PBS, sued the Trump adm...

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