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Illinois affected by a record number of billion-dollar climate disasters in 2024, mostly severe storms

12 events cost the state a total of nearly $4 billion in damages — 9 were severe storms with tornadoes, hail ...

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Hemp Loophole Causing Chaos In City Hall, Springfield — But Smoke Shop Owners ‘Ready To Fight’

Ald. Marty Quinn is pushing an ordinance that would force smoke shops selling hemp-derived THC to close while Democratic ...

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO

State sets yet another pot industry precedent

Illinois has consistently set records as it establishes its cannabis industry. First, by enacting reform with a governor’s signature ...

Gov. Pritzker Joins DPI to Launch Cannabis Research Institute (CRI)

Joint effort from State, City, and University of Illinois, CRI will inform data-driven policymaking...

The State of Illinois Newsroom

Kindergarten readiness in Illinois is linked to academic success in third grade, new report says

Illinois’ Kindergarten Individual Development Survey, or KIDS, can predict how students will perform on state standardized tests, such as the ...

Chalkbeat Chicago

What to do if you feel you are being scammed

Dr. Venkat Venkatakrishnan, Professor of Computer Science at UIC and Director of Research and Chief Scientist for the Discovery Partners ...

Illinois computer science programs are enrolling far more women

Computer science programs at Illinois colleges and universities are less white and male than they used to be, but they’...

CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS

Minority students underrepresented in computer science programs at Illinois colleges

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - A series of three reports were conducted to get to the bottom of why enrollment of minority ...

International partnership fuels transportation equity, EV buy-in

A more than $10 million vote of confidence supports the tenet that global science requires contributions from a wide range ...

University of Illinois System news

Cannabis Research Institute opens in Chicago, looking to dig deep into marijuana

Nearly a year and a half after it was announced, the Cannabis Research Institute is getting operations underway in Chicago, ...

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Alvin Chin and Lav Varshney: AI is here. How can we make it less scary and safer?

We believe there is a need for white-box AI systems that are directly human-controllable and require very little ...

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Our Chicago: Back-To-School and Learning Loss

Chicago Public School students return to class on Monday, August 26. The 2024-2024 school year is the second time ...

14 insights on responsible AI in industry

The audience at the Chicago Forum for Responsible AI in Industry: Fintech Artificial intelligence, or AI, is everywhere now. It ...

Mapping Chicago’s tech ecosystem

Study participants illustrate potential tech career paths. A new research project from the Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative (IWERC) ...

Report: Only half of computer science teachers in Illinois meet recommended qualifications

IWERC releases third report on state of computer science education in the state Chicago — (Mar 25, 2025) A new report ...