High school students and their parents are invited to visit Harper College and discover why it's an ideal place to start their higher education journey. The High School Open House begins at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in the Student Center (Building ...

By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com A bill in the Illinois House designed to create jobs by banning self-serve gas pumps died with very little support. But if you pull into the full-service Pump 1 at Craig Grandt's Shell station in Arlingto...

Barrington resident Ellen Birkett Lindeen says she plans to promote women's education opportunities when she arrives in New York this week as a delegate at the 64th annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. "I'm thrilled that (I'm rep...

If you count his work on newspapers in junior high school, high school, college and professionally, Pete Nenni has a journalism career that has spanned some 46 years in the suburbs. That's a lot of writing and editing stories, sitting through govern...

• Previews continue for Black Ensemble Theater's season-opening production of "Legends the Musical: A Civil Rights Movement Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" at 4450 N. Clark St., Chicago. Written and directed by founder and artistic director Jackie Ta...

Harper College has earned Achieving the Dream's Leader College of Distinction status for achieving new, higher student outcomes and narrowing equity gaps. Achieving the Dream leads a growing network of 277 community colleges committed to helping the...

The Midwest's largest high school jazz festival returns on Saturday, Feb. 29, to Rolling Meadows High School, only this year it celebrates a milestone. This will be the 35th annual Jazz in the Meadows festival, and organizers say it has remained tru...