• COD paves new way to earn bachelor's degree

  By Christopher Placek Nine students will walk across the stage Sunday at Lewis University's commencement ceremony to receive bachelor's degrees in criminal justice. Yet, these students never took classes at the school's campus in Romeoville. Through a so-called 3+1 program partnership between Lewis and College of DuPage, the students earned their four-year degrees from Lewis by taking all their classes at COD's campus in Glen Ellyn. It's the only community college in the state to offer such a program.
  Last Updated May 19, 2013 6:35 AM

• DuPage adjunct professors get contract extension, raises

  Updated May 17, 2013 12:19 AM

  Adjunct professors at the College of DuPage are set to receive salary increases as part of a two-year contract extension approved Thursday by the college’s board of trustees. College officials offered the contract extension to adjuncts as a package along with a plan to create a new “lecturer” position that would allow some adjuncts to receive health care benefits under the new federal health care law.

• Centegra focusing on Huntley hospital, not rivals’ merger

  Updated May 16, 2013 5:50 PM

  The day after a state panel allowed Sherman Health and Advocate Health Care to merge, rival Centegra Health System, which fought to keep the move from coming to fruition, is moving on. Centegra, McHenry County’s largest employer, will instead turn its attention to the 128-bed hospital it intends to build in Huntley, a hospital executive said Wednesday.“Our focus is on Centegra Hospital-Huntley,” said Susan Milford, Centegra’s senior vice president of strategy and development. “We want to focus on what the needs in the community are for health care and so that’s what our focus is.”

• Oak Brook’s Tomy sets world record for tallest toy train track

  Updated May 13, 2013 1:23 PM

  Tomy, the Oak Brook-based maker of the innovative Chuggington StackTrack Railway System, set a Guinness World Records title for Tallest Toy Train Track on May 11. The record-setting train track, constructed with Chuggington StackTrack — a durable die-cast railway system that enables kids to build vertical toy train layouts — towered 17 feet 4 inches tall.

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