Across the city, most public school children are eligible for free or reduced lunches—an 85 percent average across the city, showing distinct geographical patterns, and 30 percent higher than the state average. The highest eligibility? It can’t get any higher than in East Saint Louis.
One semi-silver lining for the Great Recession, as it’s been for most American recessions in recent years, is that people obtain more education (at, on average, a modest increase in lifetime earnings). But the benefit to the economy doesn’t compare to what was lost.
The 84-year-old Holocaust survivor shared some details of his new project with the audience at Chicago Humanities Festival
In 2011, Chicagoans spent $600 million playing the state lottery, out of $2.3 billion statewide. Here’s a map that shows which areas of the city are the biggest spenders.
The ex-comptroller of Dixon pleaded guilty to fraud Wednesday morning in federal court in Rockford.
Even in the era of No Child Left Behind, it’s surprisingly hard to get good data on school truancy across the country. To the extent that it exists, other urban districts seem to share our problems.
The GOP’s skepticism of and opposition to science and data in all its forms isn’t just killing them through outliers like Todd Akin—it’s also a critical issue in current and future GOTV efforts.
Having scarce resources means that even the smallest decisions have major ramifications. How does that effect decision-making? Let’s play the Feud (or Angry Birds) to find out.
The man that the White House—then Chief-of-Staff Rahm in particular—feared most as a 2012 opponent on the Republican ticket was the brilliant, disciplined general.
The New York Times statistician talked to Chicago while promoting his new book, The Signal and the Noise
