Capitol News Illinois reports 40-year-old Rustin Berkshire of Vincennes, Indiana was arrested in September 2025 on charges of interstate communication with a threat to injure and stalking.

A woman found in distress laying on the ground of the campus of the University of Illinois has died.

The bat was found near St. John's Catholic Newman Center on September 30th. The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District confirmed the bat tested positive on October 1st.

A display of blue flags represents 584 people exonerated in Illinois. IIP says that number is the highest in the nation.

21-year-old Nicholl Boose was charged in April after an investigation found that she was having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old. The teen however, was not a student in the Decatur Public School District.

University of Illinois Springfield has been rated as the top public regional university in the state for the eighth year in the Best Colleges rankings from U.S. News and World Report.

The Springfield School District 186 Board on Monday approved a fiscal year 2027 budget with a projected deficit of $10.9 million. Reserve funds will drop to about 5.6 percent to cover the deficit. Board policy calls for a 15 percent reserve.

Northwestern University and the University of Chicago are part of a three-way tie for ninth place with Johns Hopkins University.

UIS enrolled 353 freshmen this fall, up about 13 percent from fall 2025 and second to the 373 enrolled in the fall of 2019.

One incident involved a Glenwood Intermediate School student bringing a handgun lookalike on a bus and the other involved a Glenwood High School student making a threat on social media referencing the possibility of gun violence.