More than 4,150 gallons of hazardous materials leaked in Illinois from freight train cars in 2014. To put that into context, it's 22 times more than in 2013, when 187 gallons spilled into the environment. With a March derailment in Galena where cru...

Join University of Illinois Extension to get up close and personal with dirt during a special interest 4-H Club - Messing Around in the Dirt - this summer. Led by trained Master Gardener volunteers, this six-session program will feature interactive ...

Jeff and Cathy Eggert have been married for 28 years and, for most of that time, they have focused on their careers in corporate America and health care. Jeff was chief financial officer at Snap-On Tools in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for about 20 years and...

During Michael Yates' 28 years as a DuPage County sheriff's deputy, his wife and three sons coped with the fear that any day could be the day when he wouldn't come home. Yates worked as an officer on the street, as a detective and as a sniper on the...

Indian Prairie Unit District 204 is one of only nine districts across the nation being featured by the U.S. Department of Education for its use of technology to make students “future-ready.” The district on Thursday hosted a film crew from the depar...

The instructor used to write for TV. His College of DuPage class has all the makings of a sitcom. Five students — three women, two men, ages 19 to 23, covering key ethnic demographics — walk into their mass communications class as strangers. Assista...

An Illinois Supreme Court ruling today striking down the state's pension-cutting law thrusts Gov. Bruce Rauner's ideas into the spotlight as the search begins anew for solutions to the benefits funding crisis. The court unanimously and forcefully de...

Only one in 12 people who completed Kane County's pretrial diversion program for first-time, nonviolent felony offenders re-offended in a three-year span, according to a study by the Kane County state's attorney's office and Aurora University on rec...