Dick Durbin: “Efforts to overturn that progress are deeply troubling to me. Efforts to turn our back on our history as a nation of…”

I have threatened some of these for-profit schools as a way of getting them to drop the loans that they were enforcing on these students, because I know what happens in the end.

Illinois relies on rail to push our economy forward and to ensure statewide connectivity, but we’ve been missing a critical route between Chicago and the Quad Cities.

Today’s announcement means that we can see that growth sooner rather than later.

That’s why we’ve had an ongoing battle here in Washington for years against the for-profit college and university industry.