On Thursday, Oct. 5, Batavia Unit District 101 will welcome eight inductees into the Hall of Honor starting at 6 p.m. at the Batavia Fine Arts Centre, 1201 Main St. The Hall of Honor was initiated by the Batavia Foundation for Educational Excellence...

"I was in favor of it at the time," Bev Jaszczurowski, a mother of three students in Elgin Area School District U-46, says of a 2004 effort to leave the district that was overwhelmingly supported by Bartlett voters. "But here's the thing: Illinois h...

Mary Kay Gleason doesn't usually tell her students her family's story of suicide loss so early in the school year. They're only in seventh grade, so she wants to gauge their maturity. And with the loss so fresh, she's struggled to keep her emotions...

Lisle football has a simple credo. "The expectation of our players and our community is for us to play well on Friday night," said Lions coach Paul Parpet Sr., who came in with this senior class. He'd cemented an Illinois High School Football Coache...

Burlington Central alum Allie O'Reilly recently earned a share of the Adidas Ohio Valley Conference defensive player of the week honor. It was her first career weekly award. O'Reilly, a senior at Austin Peay State University, stepped into the liber...

Parvesh Cheena blames himself for the extra takes and time it took to shoot a bedroom scene with his fellow Indian actors during their new movie "The Tiger Hunter." The comedy, opening Friday, Sept. 22, takes place in 1979 Chicago where several high...

A Chicago man who was one of three people accused of raping a woman at Aurora University in 2012 pleaded guilty Monday to a reduced charge as his trial was to begin. Corderro A. Pollard, 27, formerly of Aurora and now of Chicago, was sentenced to tw...

Editor's note: Kathleen Larimer is the mother of John Larimer, one of 12 people killed in a July 20, 2012, shooting inside an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater. She is a retired nurse who lives in Crystal Lake with her husband, Scott. Today, she wr...