The Hoogland family business known for starting the Family Video chain in Springfield that ballooned to 800 stores before closing in 2021 is moving its corporate office to Tennessee.

Keith Hoogland, the president and chief executive of the Glenview, Illinois-based Highland Ventures, Ltd., made the announcement on the corporation’s website. A September opening is planned for offices in Nashville.

For longtime educator and researcher Nancy Latham, the anticipated teacher shortages at Illinois schools this fall are far more than abstract, pedagogical theories.

On the contrary, with 55% of teachers who participated in a recent nationwide survey signaling they are considering leaving the profession, Latham is worried how the state’s expected school employee shortages will affect the roughly 1.8 million Illinois students returning to the classroom for the start of the 2022-23 school year.

A handful of Democratic-led states with budget surpluses are reportedly deciding not to repay the money they borrowed from the federal government to fund unemployment benefits during the pandemic.

Nearly two dozen states borrowed tens of billions of dollars in total from the federal government to help pay unemployment benefits during the pandemic. Now, four states with budget surpluses may not be paying the federal government back this year.

Three different bills looking to address issues within the state’s higher education system are now law.

Gov J.B. Pritzker signed the bills into law last month.