Classes begin Tuesday at Rock Island High School, but nine classrooms are still off-limits to students and staff while Rock Island-Milan School District officials await mold-testing results.
Mercer County school officials had two big funding setbacks within a week. The remainder of their federal Covid funding will not be reimbursed, and a referendum for $28 million in bonds failed in the April 1 election.
Illinois state senators are considering allowing doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medicine. Dozens of people gathered in Chicago the the first hearing of Senate Bill 9, the End of Life Options Act.