Dana Yala, a speech language pathologist at Orchard Place Elementary School in Des Plaines, was selected as a 2014 Champion of Literacy by Scientific Learning. Yala is one of 17 educators from across the country chosen for going above and beyond the...

Suburban hospitals play it safe with Ebola; one patient put in isolation A patient placed in isolation at Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin while being assessed for the Ebola virus is not infected, hospital officials said yesterday. The only t...

Cook County Commissioner Tim Schneider wants the county to press ahead with an idea that has largely sat dormant for two years — getting municipalities to absorb much of the county's unincorporated areas. In response to a question asked by the Daily...

After a year of construction and $6.4 million in renovations, the new Arlington Heights Park District Camelot Park Community Center will reopen on Saturday. The 18,522-square-foot building at 1005 E. Suffield Drive has a new, larger gymnasium with a...

Over the past 10 years, the Libertyville boys cross country team has donated more than $20,000 to charities. Coached by Mark Buesing, Matt Condron, Mike Cook, Ben Zollo, Stu Mendelsohn, and Megan Janezic, the Wildcats didn't miss a beat this a fall ...

Mid-Suburban League boys basketball fans of the early 1970s will no doubt remember watching the solid play in the middle by Palatine High School center Doug Fyfe. Now Fyfe will be remembered by Lawrence University when he is inducted into the school...

As Northwest Suburban High School District 214 celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, the district's 12,000 students, faculty and others who benefit from its existence can give thanks to the women who lived in this part of Illinois during the e...

All aglow Redmoon Theatre teams up with the city of Chicago and the Chicago Park District for an outdoor spectacle called The Great Chicago Fire Festival featuring floating fire art pieces and fireworks on Saturday along the Chicago River River...