Medinah Schools
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Ex-school administrators get big pension boostsJul 27, 2011 12:00 am - James Hintz received a $33,365 raise this year. That's despite retiring as Stevenson High School District 125's assistant superintendent in 2005. Since Hintz — the distr...
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Sun's extinction is billions of years awayJul 26, 2011 12:00 am - Students in Maria Barba's first-grade at Douglas Macarthur Elementary School in Hoffman Estates asked, “Will the sun be hot enough to blow up Earth?” Scientists are stil...
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Harper program helps struggling students prosperJul 26, 2011 12:00 am - It was the phone call Monika Pasek did not want to receive from Harper College. Pasek was told she needed to enter Harper’s first Choice Scholars Institute program - a f...
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Lights at Glenbard West totally unfairJul 23, 2011 5:00 am - We live on Hawthorne, about three blocks west of Glenbard West High School. Even though we don’t live in the immediate neighborhood, we firmly believe that the installat...
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Elgin Post 57 advances to state finalsJul 23, 2011 12:00 am - The baseball team representing American Legion Post 57 of Elgin continues to make winning look easy. Post 57 hammered the host team from Lena 16-0 in seven innings to wi...
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Naperville teen among nation’s top chemistry studentsJul 21, 2011 12:00 am - It’s not often that professors tell their students to skip school. But that’s what Nao Ikegaki, an associate professor of histology at the University of Illinois at Chic...
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Benet’s Young commits to DuquesneJul 21, 2011 12:00 am - Add Nora Young to the lengthy list of Benet volleyball players who will compete at the Division I level. The 6-foot senior outside has committed to the University of Duq...
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Giesel fuels Neuqua Valley in narrow victory over BenetJul 20, 2011 12:00 am - It was one of those days where you were glad to have the last at-bat. As it turned out, though, Neuqua Valley’s baseball team didn’t need it. Tanner Giesel got the job ...
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U-46 hires 2 CPS veterans for leadership rolesJul 20, 2011 12:00 am - Elgin Area District U-46 Superintendent Jose Torres has named a pair of Chicago Public School veterans and a current U-46 staff member to a number of key positions withi...
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Local tax group says schools could cut debt leviesJul 19, 2011 12:00 am - A suburban taxpayer watchdog group has issued a report calling on local school districts to give money back to residents by paying off debt from the extra cash they have...