scholarships

A Georgia student was accepted to 264 colleges and earned $17 million in scholarship offers before choosing Knox College in Illinois.

If you've gotten the COVID-19 vaccination, you probably did it to protect yourself from contracting the coronavirus, expecting no reward whatsoever beyond virus avoidance.

Governor Pritzker figures that you might need an incentive to go out and get vaccinated against COVID-19, even after 70 percent of the state's adults have received at lease one vaccine dose.

Currently, there are eight states in the U.S. that offer "vaccine lotteries" as a way to encourage their citizens to get out and get the COVID-19 shot(s). Illinois wants to be the 9th state to do it.

The cash giveaway starts on May 26th, and Ohio adults who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose may enter a lottery that will provide a $1 million prize each Wednesday for five weeks that follow.

Judge Paul Fullerton denied the temporary restraining order involving the IHSA's Return to Play guidelines, filed by a group of parents on behalf of their children.

The Rock N' Roll Institute in Rockford is offering scholarships for its summer music program. The deadline to apply is this Tuesday, May 1st.

If you've done some shopping at the Rockford and/or Machesney Park Goodwill stores, and you said "Round it up" at the check-out register, congratulations. You helped raise over $11,000 in scholarship money at Rock Valley College. Looking at a note from our friend Shannon Halverson at Goodwill: Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois is proud to announce that it has awarded Rock Valley C