Billions of dollars are earmarked for dozens of community college campus projects in Illinois' capital improvement budget despite a more than 21% statewide drop in enrollment from 2014 to 2018. That includes more than $300 million for two dozen comm...

What to watch: live TV coverage of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon, or your cat Blackie having kittens? That dilemma faced a quartet of Palatine kids whose story was included in the (not yet daily) Herald on July 22, 1969, ...

When Angel Gutierrez Gonzalez learned he was awarded the Blueprint Bosch Vocational Scholarship, he couldn't wait to tell his mom. "I was extremely happy," said Gonzalez, who works at his dad's dealership changing car batteries and detailing cars. "...

The monthlong investigation into the June 3 motorcycle crash that killed off-duty Hoffman Estates police officer David Domin in South Barrington has resulted in two traffic citations against the driver of the other vehicle. Daniel Vizcaya, 33, of Au...

Newly promoted Elgin Police Deputy Chief Colin Fleury had some advice for the other seven members of the department who moved up the supervisory ranks on Tuesday. They should empower, mentor, nurture and guide police officers toward the right path, ...

Des Plaines resident Joan DiLeonardi, Oakton Community College trustee emeritus, received the 2019 Ray Hartstein Trustee Achievement Award at the Illinois Community College Trustees Association's banquet, held June 7, in Itasca. DiLeonardi received...

Kenneth L. Ender, now president emeritus of Harper College in Palatine after stepping down last week as president, has to have a good sense for business or he never would have been able to act as CEO of the institution. But what impressed us most in...

Land Escapes Inc., the Barrington-based landscape design and maintenance company, has been improving homeowners' and businesses' exterior environments in one way or another since 2000. Dean Strom, its owner and a Palatine native, found his calling w...

Though some of those affected remain resistant to the idea, Schaumburg officials plan to begin transitioning about 10 regular attendees of the village's Teen Center who are older than 19 out of the program and restoring that as the cutoff age to par...