Education

It starts Friday and runs through Sunday, Aug. 16.

Governor signed 87 bills on Friday.

Among other changes across the university, Northwestern’s Bienen School of Music is offering a certificate in music and artificial intelligence.

“I was the only student from central Illinois,” Garg said. “I was very honored and also very proud.” 

He looks forward to seeing Welch’s Chicago school funding plan. He won’t say whether he supports Welch as speaker.

Author of “How to Think Like an Ecologist: A Non-Scientist’s Guide to Saving Our Planet” was on the WTAX Morning Newswatch.

The governor awaits ISP report on January’s fatal East St Louis shooting.

Taking into account factors like poverty rates and racial demographics to ensure researchers compared neighborhoods similarly, they saw that trends in gun violence near schools diverged after the 2013 school closures, with the areas near closed schools seeing a 10 percent uptick in violence.

The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program, signed into law last year, allows individual taxpayers to receive a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit of up to $1,700 annually for donations made to qualified Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs).

The SAVE plan, a Biden-era program that offered lower monthly student loan repayments, has also ended. Borrowers who were enrolled must choose a new repayment plan.