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April showers hit southern Illinois hard – earlier this week Gov. Quinn issued a disaster proclamation for parts of the state. Meanwhile, Chicago has faced a different sort of deluge.

Some federal officials in Illinois are renewing calls for stricter regulations of for-profit colleges. For-profit colleges like Everest advertise heavily on TV.COMMERCIAL: You keep procrastinating. Over and over. Well maybe I'll go to school next year or maybe next semester. No.

Wednesday’s Chicago Board of Education meeting marked the end of an era.

On Wednesday Eight Forty-Eight presented Part 1 of WBEZ’s Richard Steele’s conversation with former Chicago State University president Dr. Dolores Cross.Cross resigned from Morris Brown College in Atlanta after she was accused of embezzling millions of dollars in student financial aid.

Chicago will be closing seven schools, despite last-minute protests from parents.Parent Felipa Hernandez spoke out against the consolidation of her son’s Logan Square elementary school with a middle school next door.Hernandez said parents at Avondale Elementary and Logandale Middle School are active

GO TO 2040 is our seven-county region’s first comprehensive plan since the 1909 Plan of Chicago.

Dolores Cross didn’t leave education because of a changing of the guard. And she certainly didn’t do it by choice. The first female president of Chicago State University went to Morris Brown College because she believed she could help.