After years of watching top students leave for other states, U. of I. and lawmakers begin to respond - Dawn Rhodes, Tribune

For years, Illinois universities have watched as thousands of the state's best and brightest students headed elsewhere for college. Lured by generous scholarship offers, and spooked by the state’s budget stalemate and rising tuitions, Illinois students have increasingly pursued their higher education in other states. Enrollment has slid, and Illinois is losing far more local students to other states than it is attracting nonresidents to attend college here. Now, the University of Illinois and a bipartisan group of lawmakers want to change that. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-illinois-students-public-universities-20180824-story.html