In just its first year of operation, the Education and Work Center in Hanover Park already is seeing a strong demand for its services, officials say. There's a waitlist of people trying to get basic English language skills and complete their high sc...

Rajinder Singh Mago, co-founder of the Palatine-based Punjabi Cultural Society of Chicago, opened the annual Chicago Leadership Prayer Breakfast at the Chicago Hilton Dec. 4 with a Sikh prayer of Thanksgiving. Mago is a longtime volunteer coordinato...

While they might not be the next Tickle Me Elmo or Cabbage Patch Kids, Skylanders: SuperChargers and collectible Shopkins characters seem to be a hit among kids visiting the Ice Palace at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg. That's where Santa greets fami...

Is it a sign of the times? When Santa visited with children last week in the pediatric department at Amita Alexian Brothers Women & Children's Hospital in Hoffman Estates, it was not in the way you may think. More than 20 children were in the hosp...

Sometimes it seemed 2015 in DuPage County was all about the College of DuPage. But it wasn't, of course. Here's a look at some of the other stories that grabbed headlines and got people talking. March supports cops: Hundreds brave cold ...

Two suburban lawmakers tell me they're prepping legislation aimed at creating uniformity on transgender students following the nationally watched controversy over locker room access at Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211. Republican Reps....

COD faculty: Probation places ‘black veil' on school College of DuPage faculty and supporters last night decried trustees and administrators for actions that resulted in the college being placed on probation by the Higher Learning Commission. ...

Officials in some of the villages along the route of a proposed ComEd power line that would serve as a backup to the current line aren't happy with the aesthetics of the 170-foot poles the project will bring or what they see as the last minute timin...