Feb 11 2013 | 2:48 pm
- Jill Sevilla won't be competing for Prospect High School when the girls gymnastics state championships open Friday, but she's already a winner. Jill, who has Down syndrome, has been on the junior varsity team this season, and event competed in a...
Feb 07 2013 | 2:23 pm
- A popular art teacher at Harper College, who helped build up its printmaking studio and left a lasting impression on his students, has died. William Wimmer spent nearly 40 years sharing his passion for art, and more specifically for printmaking,...
Feb 06 2013 | 11:11 am
- After more than five years of planning, the new Alexian Brothers Women and Children's Hospital in Hoffman Estates is nearing completion, and members of the Alexian Brothers Foundation's Women's Board are throwing a pair of baby showers to welcome...
Feb 03 2013 | 12:27 am
- Buffalo Grove, Barrington, and Grant High School in Fox Lake, were the big winners at the Competitive Cheerleading finals on Saturday in Bloomington. “They just won the Super Bowl,” Buffalo Grove head coach Jeff Siegel said. “We're...
Feb 01 2013 | 10:03 am
- Entries are open for the 2013 Community Art & Writing Contest, which runs concurrently with the Arts Unlimited celebration of the arts in District 214 schools. The contest seeks artwork, poetry and prose entries from residents living inside the high...
Feb 01 2013 | 5:39 am
- Cheerleading squads from all over Illinois converge on Bloomington Friday as the 2013 IHSA's competitive cheerleading state championships open. The suburbs are well represented in the 100 schools that made the championships. "We're so excited," said...
Jan 30 2013 | 8:47 am
- On any given day, Gracie Gold of Elk Grove Village could have been found training on the ice at rinks in Glen Ellyn or Vernon Hills, skating fairly anonymously under the watchful eye of her coach, Alex Ouriashev. Not anymore. Not after the...
Jan 28 2013 | 1:54 pm
- A food pantry started at Mead Junior High by the Schaumburg/Hoffman Estates Rotary has been so successful, the club is going to start another one at Keller Junior High in the fall. It's all part of Rotary's efforts to make sure low-income students...
Jan 28 2013 | 12:18 pm
- George Verber hated to lose. His intensity as a longtime teacher and coach at Maine South and Maine West was infamous, but the coach finally lost a battle with leukemia he couldn't win. "He was one in a million," said Dave Scott, who took over the...
Jan 26 2013 | 9:31 pm
- The Illinois High School Association debuted its state championship in its newest sport on Saturday, and suburban teams dominated. Suburban teams took the top three medals in the competitive dance finals on Saturday in both the large and medium...