Barrington Unit District 220 board members will vote Tuesday on whether to accept any of the construction bids they've received for an approximately $12 million early learning center at Barrington Middle School-Prairie Campus. The new 37,000-square-...

The Elgin Children's Chorus is holding auditions for the 2009-10 for interested students ages 7 to 16 with unchanged voices. For details, visit elginchildrenschorus.org or call (847) 931-7464. Dates and times of auditions are as follows: • Tuesday,...

Violist Dearion Wright and violinist Karla Barrera, both of Carpentersville, have been named the recipients of the 2009 Elgin Symphony Orchestra's Jean Hove Young Musicians Scholarship. Dearion, a sixth-grade student of Lakewood School, and Karla, a...

I don't know exactly where I stand on the legalization of marijuana, so I eagerly read "Think about this before legalizing pot (Fence Post, May 17) with the idea that it would clarify my thoughts. Instead, I ended up a bit confused. Mr. Yohn descri...

Carpentersville • Two Dundee-Crown High School students were taken to Sherman Hospital in Elgin Friday afternoon after a Community Unit District 300 school bus was involved in a crash near the intersection of Skyline Drive and Deerpath Lane in Carpe...

An unidentified woman who fell into the Fox River in Carpentersville is safe today following a water rescue at about 10 p.m. Thursday. According to a press release from the Carpentersville Fire Department, the 49-year-old female was crossing a tres...

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois General Assembly gave final approval Thursday to legislation that would exempt existing school sporting venues from a requirement that all second-story press boxes have elevator access for people with disabilities. The pro...

Two Dundee-Crown High School students were being evaluated for injury this afternoon after a Community Unit District 300 school bus was involved in a crash near the intersection of Skyline Drive and Deerpath Lane in Carpentersville. District 300 Com...