SPRINGFIELD — Seven years after Illinois lawmakers passed a law intended to curtail big pension-boosting pay hikes for retiring educators, some local school districts still are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in penalties for giving s...

SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House has started moving to put a three-year moratorium on Internet charter schools just days after a handful of suburban districts rejected the online proposals. On Monday, the Elgin Area School District U-46, Carpentersv...

Oak Brook voters have rejected two measures that could have resulted in a new school for Butler Elementary District 53 on village-owned land at the Sports Core. Voters villagewide denied a ballot question asking permission for the village to sell up...

Trustee Tom Hayes contends the village has made strides toward making Arlington Heights a more business friendly community, but his two opponents in next week’s mayoral race say there is much more to be done. Hayes and other village officials cite s...

WASHINGTON — Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind? Addressing two pivotal legal issues, one on affirmative action and a second on voting rights, a divided Supreme Court is poised to answer those questi...

Two years shy of Barrington’s 150th anniversary, Village President Karen Darch Monday gave her address on the state of the village in 2013. In fact it was 150 years ago, in the midst of the Civil War, that the area’s residents began the process that...

JOHANNESBURG — Oscar Pistorius reported to South African authorities on Monday under bail terms in the murder case against him, said a spokeswoman for the Olympic athlete. The double-amputee runner visited correctional officers in the capital, Preto...

PRETORIA, South Africa — Oscar Pistorius walked out of a South African court Friday a free man — for now — after a magistrate agreed to release him on bail ahead of his premeditated murder trial over the shooting death of his girlfriend. But even as...