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IL State Superintendent of Education presents $10 9b budget request to lawmakers The Illinois State Board of Education is requesting $10.9 billion dollars to fund public schools for the next fiscal year. State Superintendent of Education ...

Listen: Who's to blame for Illinois' high property tax burden? We take a look in this week's edition of Capitol Cast.

Property taxes take center stage A report by the Cook County treasurer's office set off a statewide debate this week about who's to blame for Illinois' high property tax rate and what, if anything, state lawmakers can do to provide s

This week on Capitol Cast - a follow-up to an earlier episode about upward mobility in Illinois. Young people born into low-income households have a harder time rising up the economic ladder. But what are the pathways that work? Listen in.

Upward mobility - Part 2 In a follow-up to a report we featured last year, new research shows there are some education and career pathways that enable young people who grow up in lower-income households to climb up the econom

This week, I talk with historian Jason Emerson about his new book, "The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, As Revealed by Her Own Letters." (Monday will mark the 150th anniversary of her commitment to an "insane asylum" outside Chicago.)

A new perspective on Mary Todd Lincoln May 19 will mark the 150th anniversary of Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of the slain president, being declared legally insane and committed to an asylum outside Chicago. Historian Jason Emerson discusses h