The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every aspect of education in the state and across the nation, irrevocably impacting the lives of students, families, and educators like no crisis before it. Educators, families, and leaders responded to the crisis with extraordinary resilience. In the face of an unprecedented threat to public health, the state leveraged stay-at-home orders to limit the spread of COVID-19 and prevent as many deaths as possible. Programs and schools leapt to launch online programs, to provide emotional and material support to students and, later, to reopen with new safety protocols. Students and families navigated virtual services and remote learning, even while grieving for loved ones lost to the pandemic and grappling with job loss, illness, and isolation. This report outlines the impact this global event has had on Illinois learners from early childhood education through higher education. The report also highlights a few of the valiant efforts of state and local leaders, who worked to address critical issues--expanding access to laptops, finding ways to expand internet and broadband access, taking steps to stabilize the state's system of early childhood education and care, and investing in efforts to support staff and student wellbeing. [For the last report in this series, "The State We're In: 2019. A Report on Public Education in Illinois," see ED602870.]