Help when you can. If Julia Perez’s family had a motto, that would be it. That family value led the bilingual Perez to volunteer at Elgin’s Centro de Informacion, where she taught English as a second language during the mid-1980s. An organization th...

Greenbrook Montessori School in Hanover Park received the Gold Circle of Quality designation from ExceleRate Illinois, the state’s Quality Recognition and Improvement system for early childhood education and care programs.

For Sewa Diwali 2024 in Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates, Bartlett, and Carpentersville, kids in kindergarten to high school organized food collection in neighborhoods and at grocery stores with Sewa Diwali posters and flyers.

The longtime mayors of Streamwood and Hanover Park are being challenged in the April 1 election by two other local elected officials, while a smooth succession is shaping up in neighboring Bartlett.

For the 40th anniversary edition of its Candlelight Carols program, the St. Charles Singers and its founder and artistic director Jeffrey Hunt will be joined by the Metropolis String Ensemble.

Al Murphy has been recognized for his decade-long tenure on the DuPage County Forest Preserve Board.

Fireworks, Santa visits, parades, holiday performances and more are a part of suburban tree lightings this season.

As candidate filing for next year’s municipal elections continued Wednesday, a handful of contested races developed for village board and city council seats in the Northwest suburbs.

A Hanover Park man was denied pretrial release Tuesday after police say he was driving drunk when he crashed into another car and then a tree, injuring his two young children who were in the vehicle without child restraints.

A three-way race for Arlington Heights’ next mayor emerged Tuesday morning as candidates across the suburbs began filing nominating petitions for the April 2025 municipal elections.