State residents enrolled at Christian Life College face among the lowest cost of attending four-year in-state colleges and universities in the U.S., according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of federal data.

Maroa Forsyth Community Unit School District 2 reported one of the biggest student-to-administrator ratios in Illinois, according to the latest Illinois Schools Report Card.

School districts in Decatur, Clinton and Maroa were among those in Illinois that paid the most in penalties since 2005 for spiking employee salaries to boost outgoing teachers' retirement benefits, according to data obtained from the Teacher