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It’s a laudable goal, but educators, reformers and politicians alike say it has set the country’s schools up for failure and may be depriving children of…

The Great Recession was caused in part by overextended homebuyers who took out loans to purchase homes that cost more than they could afford. They were…

I have to say that I don’t believe any of the above. But I may be in the minority. In Illinois and across America, teachers have become the scapegoat for…

Pushed back on the agenda by health care reform and attempts to address the lagging economy, national immigration reform — a campaign pledge of President…

For the typical Illinois legislator, long-range planning usually means thinking about the next election. Struggling this spring to fashion a new budget,…

He saved the city from ending up like Detroit.He runs City Hall as if he were the CEO of a private corporation.He is the “greenest” mayor in the…

On this week's Business Report, Bill Wheelhouse talks with Tim Landis about a new effort to collect on-line sales taxes in Illinois; Nudo Products expands…

The activist the Chicago Tribune once described as “the state’s most vocal advocate for good government” is stepping down after heading the Illinois…

Allen Kurzweil's new book Whipping Boy starts out as the story of his obsessive 40-year search for the boy who bullied him at boarding school — but it becomes something much deeper and stranger.

On the morning of Wednesday, November 3, it was still unclear whether Democrat Pat Quinn had held on to the governor’s office in the previous day’s…