Deadline set for Tyson the bison Lake County Forest Preserve District officials say they want an estimated 1,300-pound bison, called Tyson, that has been living at the Lakewood Forest Preserve near Wauconda gone by Memorial Day. Some...

Gardeners can get the growing season off to a good start with upcoming plant sales featuring perennials, vegetables, native and organic plants. It is also a good way to support local nonprofit organizations. Arlington Heights The Arlington Heights G...

Several suburban school districts will receive a portion of $87 million in additional school funding due to a coding error in the state's funding formula that wrongly routed the money to Chicago Public Schools. School district administrators say th...

The District 225 communications depth chart just got deeper. The Glenbrook High Schools District 225 board on Monday approved the hiring of Carol Smith as executive director of communications and community engagement effective this July 1. A communi...

The DuPage Children's Museum in Naperville recently announced three new board members: Jim Rekoske, Antony Nettleton and Adrian Talley. The museum's board of directors provides guidance and strategy to advance the social mission and to realize the n...

Ask Leo Bonilla why he decided to help the D300 Food Pantry and the 8-year-old boy offers a simple explanation: It was easy, and he knew it would help people. The second-grader from Neubert Elementary School in Algonquin, sprung into action in late ...

This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: A mural project in the works at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, created by the school's minority students,...