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More people are waiting in line to access higher education inside Illinois prisons. The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for the first time since 2023 in an effort to curb high inflation. The Englewood Jazz Festival gets underway tonight on Chicago’s south side. 

Plus, as enrollment continues to drop at Chicago Public Schools, there’s a growing chorus of people who say it's time to do another round of school closures.  Closing schools in Chicago became a political hot potato after former Mayor Rahm Emanuel shuttered 50 all at once in 2013. Yet, the question will no longer be in the mayor’s hands. This year, for the first time ever, city voters will get to elect the whole school board. The four candidates for president were asked at a WTTW forum earlier this week how they would confront this issue.