It's spring, the weather is finally warming up and many high schools are performing bright, cheery, uplifting theater productions that leave parents smiling. Last spring, Rolling Meadows High School theater director Britnee Ruscitti Kenyon, who ackn...

Due to the success of last fall's Community Forum, which was hosted by the Palatine Area Chamber of Commerce (PACC), the professional association has once again organized a 'community conversation' event on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. The Community Foru...

A Harper College official was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to testify before a House Appropriations subcommittee on career and technical education and apprenticeships. Maria Coons, the Palatine-based community college's chief of staff and vice ...

Dani Engelbreit's father would be so proud of her. Ron Engelbreit coached Elk Grove Park District football for more than 25 years and was the athletic director at St. Hubert in Hoffman Estates for three years. He coached Dani in her many sports over...

The 2018 spring concert of the Festival Chorus will be dedicated to Edwin L. Kemp III, the second of four conductors the chorus has had in its 53-year history. Born Jan. 23, 1944, Kemp passed away on Jan. 27 following an extended convalescence from ...

Harper College students, staff and faculty got a realistic, and possibly uncomfortable, look at the challenges of living with little income Wednesday, during a Community Action Poverty Simulation hosted on the Palatine campus. Created to help people...

Hoping to boost young students' interest in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM), Palatine Township Elementary District 15 hosted its inaugural STEAM Family Fun Night on Tuesday. About 3,000 children from six elementary sch...

The Harper Ensemble Theatre Company presents a story of grief, loss, guilt and karma in "Language of Angels," a ghost-ridden drama by playwright Naomi Iizuka. The play runs Friday, April 20, through Sunday, April 29, at the Building L Drama Lab on H...