• DuPage adjunct professors get contract extension, raises

  By Christopher Placek 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.
  Last Updated May 17, 2013 12:19 AM

• Itasca parents still trying to save school programs

  Posted May 16, 2013 10:03 PM

  It appears likely Itasca Elementary District 10 will begin classes next fall with fewer middle school programs. Nevertheless, parents in the district still hope to convince the school board to reverse a decision to eliminate seventh-grade Spanish, family and consumer science, and a media center director position at F.E. Peacock Middle School. “We feel pretty defeated, but there’s always hope,” parent Linda Wellander said Thursday.

• Rush to salute military families Sunday

  Updated May 13, 2013 4:29 PM

  The Chicago Rush will host Military Appreciation Day at 3 p.m. Sunday during their Arena Football League game with Arizona Rattlers at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont. The Rush have teamed up with the Wood Dale-based iD Commerce + Logistics to make Sunday's game free to all veterans, active military personnel, and their families.

• Perez goes the distance

  Posted May 18, 2013 11:58 PM

  Courtney Ackerman made every conceivable effort, but the New Trier senior could never solve Madeline Perez.

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