U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock said that redistricting is to blame for Republican losses in Illinois this year.Democrats picked up four U.S. House seats and gained several in the Illinois General Assembly.

Businesses across Chicago are offering incentives to vote such as free desserts or drinks if you bring in a voting receipt. But a phone app is actually getting people to the polls for free.

There's little doubt that Sarah and her family have an unstable life. But the question of why that is, and how it should be fixed is a sharply divided debate.

Sarah is a model of how welfare has moved people into jobs. But if welfare's bigger goal is getting people out of poverty, then she's a portrait of what’s gone wrong.

In Illinois, the GED testing fee will more than double, rising from $50 to $120. 

The GED is sometimes called the largest high school in the world. Dropouts think of it as a second chance to move up in the world. But research shows, it might not work. 

At the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, a cyber navigator’s central job is to help people learn to use computers. But because much of what they do is help people access government services or find a job, cyber navigators are almost like digital social workers.