Structural choreography Jessica Lang Dance presents a repertory program featuring the world premiere piece "Tesseracts of Time" that was created as part of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial tonight at Millennium Park's Harris Theater ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's Mars-orbiting Maven spacecraft has discovered that the sun likely robbed the red planet of its once-thick atmosphere and water. On Thursday, scientists reported that even today, the solar wind is stripping away abo...

Fighting leukemia is an all-encompassing endeavor. So is training for an Ironman race. Imagine doing both at the same time. Running (sometimes literally) around the state on assignment, I've taken a number of pairs of heels to Greg George at Randhu...

By John Lemon jlemon@dailyherald.com Claire Anderson, St. Charles North The co-captain of this year's All-Area team who will be playing at DePaul next year, Anderson finished off her 4 years playing varsity volleyball with a bang. Led her team to 34...

There might have been times when she was younger that Molly Haggerty would have chosen to be someplace other than at a volleyball court. But these days the only ones not happy to see her around volleyball are the opponents on the other side of the n...

Elk Grove's Emily Stegmeier is definitely in a good place. The Grenadiers junior capped a breakout season on Saturday by finishing fourth at the Lake Park sectional, qualifying individually for the Class 3A state meet at Detweiller Park in Peoria t...

Brooke Burling, Waubonsie Valley The senior outside hitter finished with 142 kills, 201 digs and 37 aces while earning all-DuPage Valey Conference honors and all-tourney recognition at Autumnfest and the Wheaton Classic. She'll play beach volleybal...

Funny spot Catch up with comedian Tony Rock (HBO's "Def Comedy Jam," Oxygen's "Can You Tell?") when he returns to town for a series of standup performances starting Thursday at the Improv Comedy Showcase at Woodfield Mall, 5 Woodfield Road, Sch...

Rampant state success never gets old for St. Francis girls volleyball coach Peg Kopec. Neither does her anticipation before a big match. “I get excited, I get nervous, I get happy,” the Spartans' coach said Tuesday, before her squad eliminated Neuqu...

In the beginning, it was the unthinkable. So implausible, in fact, that it would be weeks before the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force even began seriously considering the possibility that respected Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz - ...