A new report showed that declining enrollment in Chicago leaves about 150 of its schools half-empty. The report, authored by ChalkBeat and ProPublica, found that 47 schools are operating “at less than ...

GARY — Thursday’s discovery of a 27-year-old Portage woman’s body in an abandoned school building is not the ... Richardson, 17, of Chicago, was found strangled to death inside the former ...

More than 28 abandoned and boarded up schools in one Midwest city contribute to urban blight — and in some cases have served ...

In 2015, 17-year-old Chicago resident Connita ... Watson Academy for Boys building, which formerly housed Drew Elementary School, for $1. By the time the abandoned schools became housing authority ...

According to court documents, it turns out the three men Sean Alvarez, Kai Oritz, and Pearson Phillips traveled from Illinois ... break-in at an abandoned middle school building in Pittsburgh's ...

Landmarks Illinois on Thursday included Chicago Vocational, at 2100 E. 87th St., on its yearly list of the state’s 10 most endangered buildings. The preservation group cited the school’s ...

By Julie Bosman Reporting from Chicago The Illinois ... owned after-school center, Y.N.O.T. Outdoors. The car left the road, veered through an open field and into the building.

(AP) — Residents of a small central Illinois city on Tuesday mourned ... crash in which a car barreled through a building used for a popular after-school camp. Authorities said it didn’t ...

(AP) — Three children and a teenager were killed and others were injured when a car drove through an after-school building in a small city outside Springfield, Illinois, but authorities said ...

CHATHAM — A crash through an after-school building in a small city outside of Springfield, Illinois ... Police said two 7-year-olds, an 8-year-old and an 18-year-old were killed.