The ChiArts Board reports expenses have not kept up with funding, and it can no longer operate as a "contract school," ...

The 25,000-square-foot Grainger Center for Conservation and Science will bring together the museum’s 40 specialists in a ...

U.S. News & World Report has released its annual list of best universities and colleges. Several central Illinois colleges are ranked highly. We took a look at how the region and the state fared in ...

Columbia College Chicago had its credit rating downgraded to junk, the latest small school to see its finances bruised by declining enrollment. The 135-year-old arts college in the South Loop was ...

A truly monumental piece of art, 100 feet long and comprised of 21 panels, is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago. The piece is called "Paradise Lost," and was painted by artist Raqib Shaw, who ...

The Chicago school board also voted to allocate $1.4 million to keep EPIC Academy high school open through the end of this school year and allow it to close next summer.

Melissa Ann Pinney's photographs capture everyday moments of adolescence inside Chicago Public Schools over the course of a ...

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