When Patty Branham, our Cook of the Week from Hoffman Estates, got married, she only knew how to cook three things: lasagna, bread and brownies. Her mother hadn't liked having people (aka kids) underfoot in her kitchen. Flash forward a couple of dec...

It was an evening to celebrate the Friendship Senior Options' Foundation work: funding of an art therapy program, benevolent care of residents and employee assistance, and the new inductees to the Sterling Circle, according to Stephen Yenchek, CEO o...

Art and finance have a lot in common when you consider that both involve taking measurements and putting things in proper contextual perspective. Mike Rosen knows that well. The Elmhurst furniture-maker switched careers about three years ago, thro...

In many ways, Harper College student Mili Tomar is seeing the modern world with fresh eyes. Growing up in rural India, she wasn't exposed to much high-end technology until moving to Toronto as a teenager. Instead of shying away from her new, intimid...

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 ...