Harper College is dangling a maximum of $1 million as a challenge to a private foundation raising money for a program offering free tuition to qualifying high school students. Palatine-based Harper has set aside the potential grant money in a fund w...

We can predict the greatest solar eclipse of the century to the minute. Suburban weather, not so much. Clouds teased the festive crowd of several hundred people watching the eclipse at a viewing event Monday on the campus of Palatine's Harper Colleg...

Our staff in the field is filing regular reports today on what is happening in the suburbs during the eclipse. 1:51 p.m. A shade disappointed in Naperville Despite warnings from the school PA system not to look at the eclipse through cellphones, se...

Let's just say that in the suburbs, Monday's eclipse was about 86 percent awesome. Schoolchildren and their teachers, of course, were filled with wonderment. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing, so it's really cool," said Lorna Bellas, a fifth-grader a...

See moments from the solar eclipse by our Daily Herald photographers in the suburbs of Chicago and southern Illinois. People in Naperville, at Harper College in Palatine, Gages Lake, and Wayne as well as downstate Chester gathered to experience the ...

Mother Nature isn't cooperating with skywatchers' hopes to see the eclipse in the Chicago area today. Cloud coverage is making it difficult to see the full effect of the partial eclipse. Still, the clouds weren't thick enough to keep the sun complet...

Adler Planetarium: A free Chicago Eclipse Fest will run from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday on the planetarium grounds and in the adjacent parking lot. Guests can enjoy live entertainment, hands-on science for all ages, local programming and food trucks...

The Barrington Street Fest and Dance is the perfect way to close out summer 2017. Presented by the Barrington Breakfast Rotary Club, with The Village of Barrington, the Street Fest is a family-friendly event featuring music, food and a Kids Zone. T...

On Monday, Aug. 21, residents from Friendship Village Schaumburg will celebrate a solar eclipse tea party. Donning special eclipse glasses, the residents will witness the phenomenon of the moon passing between the sun and earth, blocking the sun fr...