Carolina Szoepe and Ryan Facks credit Harper College's GIS certificate for internships and jobs in the fast-growing field.

Mark your calendar for Wheeling Winterfest, Martin Luther King Jr. Day events throughout the suburbs, the Chicago Fishing Expo and more happening this week.

Amanda Yost teaches math to multilingual learners at Franklin Middle School in Wheaton. Her “math talk” routine is key to the students’ understanding, helping them develop number sense, fluency, place value understanding, and practice language skills.

To help students make those all-important connections and build their professional networks, Harper College is expanding its popular Corporate Mentorship Program.

Aurora continues its 40-year tradition honoring Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy with their annual MLK ceremony featuring a tribute to late founders, guest speaker Michael Eric Dyson, and award presentations.

The city of Aurora will jump into the esports arena with its first Rocket League tournament on Monday. It’s the inaugural event in the Aurora Gaming Series, and city officials say it's the first video game tournament in the country hosted by a local municipality.

In an effort to entice theater fans from their cozy confines this winter, Chicago-area companies are staging local premieres of Broadway hits along with a smattering of revivals.

College Achievers: Cary-Grove High School graduate Addison West, earned All-America honors by The Associated Press, the Walter Camp Foundation and the Football Writers Association.

New England Congregational Church in Aurora celebrated the season with a display of 40 nativity sets from around the world on Sunday, Dec. 15. The sets were loaned by Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago from its “Art and Faith of the Creche” ...