Some other, similarly-sized public schools in the state have also seen significant enrollment losses over the past several years, including Northeastern Illinois University, in Chicago; Eastern ...

At Illinois State University, 26% of the 3,916 traffic stops between 2019 and 2023 were of Black drivers, while 11% of its enrollment is composed of Black students. In Normal, surrounding ISU, 10% ...

Campus police at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign stopped 1,093 Black women — the most of any of the 11 campus police departments in the analysis — from 2019 through 2023.

Throughout the late 1970s and ’80s, Northeastern Illinois University’s Center for Inner City Studies (now the Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies, or CCICS) supported jailhouse lawyers, created ...

Even as Illinois’ public colleges desperately need to boost enrollment, it’s become increasingly difficult for students from low- and middle-income families to navigate a path to affordability.