Out of the gate Horse racing season begins again with Opening Day & Kentucky Derby Day events this weekend at Arlington International Racecourse, 2200 W. Euclid Ave., Arlington Heights. $10 opening day general admission; free tickets are available o...

Longtime Cary-Grove girls cross-country and track and field coach Mark Anderson learned a valuable lesson at a clinic he once attended. "You learn to coach the way you are coached," he recalled being told. "There's not a truer statement." Anderson, ...

Harper College is trying to lure former President Barack Obama to be the school's commencement speaker next year on the occasion of the Palatine-based community college's 50th anniversary. And at least so far, Obama hasn't said no to the invitation,...

Though he lost his re-election bid, Harper College Trustee Walt Mundt was reappointed by his colleagues after the candidate who beat him moved out of town. Mundt, of Palatine, finished third in a three-way race for two seats on the board, but second...

Some school superintendents have begged for years for a fix to Illinois' school funding distribution, saying it shortchanges schools with more low-income students. But now they say that can wait. They just want a state budget. Elgin Area School ...

While construction continues on Harper College building renovations approved through a 2008 referendum, officials at the Palatine-based community college already are planning for additional projects over the next decade and beyond that likely would ...

Rolling Meadows graduate Morgan Keller enjoyed one of the finest weeks of her college career at Illinois State. The senior Redbird, who was the 2013 Daily Herald Northwest Female Athlete of the Year, was rewarded by being named Missouri Valley Confe...