Illinois Public Media News

The Anita Purves Nature Center is the latest building in Champaign-Urbana to go solar. Solar panels are being installed this week on the nature center, located on the north end of Urbana’s Crystal Lake Park.

Illinois lawmakers are considering a variety of bills that would change the requirements to earn a teaching certificate.

Family structures—and farms themselves—are much more complicated than they used to be. Today, farm transition and land transfer are now among the hardest conversations families face.

Some doctors see access to birth control as a tool in the fight to decrease maternal and infant mortality. Indiana has one of the nation’s worst rates of new mothers and infants dying, and those rates are even worse for black women. But a history of abuse has led to distrust of health care professionals in communities of color. 

One of the largest non-tuition expenses for many students is the cost of living on campus. The price of room and board has doubled in inflation adjusted dollars at public universities in the U.S. since 1980.