A home buyer who paid $149,500 to purchase a home on May 8 paid the top home sale price for Thomasboro in the first six months of 2018, according to BlockShopper.com, which reported all home sales by city for January through June.

In a year when 88 percent of Bement High School seniors graduated on time, 57 percent of those who attended Illinois community colleges had to enroll in remedial courses.

At Leal Elementary School, a 46.2-point achievement gap persisted between low income and non low income students in 2017.

At Robeson Elementary School, a 43.6-point achievement gap persisted between low income and non low income students in 2017.

At Washington Elementary School, a 44.1-point achievement gap persisted between low income and non low income students in 2017.

Bement Community Unit School District 5 increased per-student spending 16.8 percent from fiscal year 2008 to 2017, adjusted for inflation, according to a Chambana Sun analysis of public schools data.

At Westview Elementary School, a 27.6-point achievement gap persisted between low income and non low income students in 2017.

Dan Caulkins wastes little time getting to the specifics when talking about a new Pew Charitable Trusts study that finds Illinois lags behind every other state in personal income growth.

Cisco Fire Protection District, Bondville Fire District and Georgetown Fire Protection District reported responding to the most vehicle fire incidents per capita in Greater C-U in 2017, according to the latest state report.

At Gcms Elementary School, a 16.1-point achievement gap persisted between low income and non low income students in 2017.

At Unity West, a 18.6-point achievement gap persisted between low income and non low income students in 2017.

At Bottenfield Elementary School, a 31.3-point achievement gap persisted between low income and non low income students in 2017.

A home buyer who paid $291,000 to purchase a home on Jan. 16 paid the top home sale price for Homer in the first six months of 2018, according to BlockShopper.com, which reported all home sales by city for January through June.

At Stratton Elementary School, a 32.1-point achievement gap persisted between low income and non low income students in 2017.

Urbana School District 116 increased per-student spending 4.2 percent from fiscal year 2008 to 2017, adjusted for inflation, according to a Chambana Sun analysis of public schools data.

In a year when 89 percent of Rantoul Township High School seniors graduated on time, 44 percent of those who attended Illinois community colleges had to enroll in remedial courses.

Danville Community Consolidated School District 118, Urbana School District 116 and Hoopeston Area Community Unit School District 11 were among those in Illinois that reported the highest rate of boys suspended for any reason during the 2016-17 school yea

A fundamental problem occurs when two different materials are bonded or soldered together, for example in a computer microchip or in power electronics: when exposed to heat, because the two materials expand at different rates, one could break or de-bond from the other.

Amazon has announced a $1 million commitment over five years to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s College of Engineering to support the Academic Redshirt in Science and Engineering (ARISE) program.

Dan Caulkins believes there is a reason why the candidates who are most strongly supported by Mike Madigan get most of their funding from the longtime House speaker.