Mid-afternoon sunlight streamed through glass walls onto a boisterous crowd on hand recently for a commencement ceremony in the College of Lake County’s auditorium in Waukegan. It marked the end of ...

Richard Martinez-Messner of Waukegan concedes he has made some regrettable decisions in the past, but late last year — jobless with little more than some clothes to his name — he decided he was going ...

Overlooking the shoreline of Lake Michigan and an aging coal plant, a packed conference room was filled with families, advocates and Illinois legislators celebrating the graduation of two dozen newly ...

College of DuPage recently launched a free workforce training program aimed at preparing students for careers in the clean energy sector. Supported by a $3.1 million grant from the Illinois Climate ...

Shawn Honorable graduated with honors last week from Richland Community College’s clean energy workforce training program in Decatur, Illinois, part of a network of hubs funded by the state’s 2021 ...

CARBONDALE — As the city of Carbondale has been legislatively designated one of the 13 CEJA (Climate and Equitable Jobs Act) Workforce Hub regions, we are committed to supporting the state led ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. Four years ago, Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker ...