Bryan Bednarek calls it his bad habit. He likes to clap, everywhere. In his car, his Arlington Heights home and even the secluded corners of his workplace: the public library. This isn't the mild-mannered applause after Rory McIlroy sinks a putt at ...

After years of planning, the long-awaited Education and Work Center opened Thursday in Hanover Park, a novel facility that puts two community colleges under one roof with resources for the unemployed. Elgin Community College and Harper College held ...

Roosevelt University will eliminate many of the programs at its Schaumburg campus, relocate numerous faculty and try to rent its facilities there as part of a wider effort to focus resources on the school's main Chicago campus, according to universi...

Margaret Rosano had the telltale signs. Hair, soaking wet. Shivering. A broad smile, despite the rush of ice cubes showering her head. Rosano, of course, had just completed the Ice Bucket Challenge. She did it for her cousin, a mom of a 4-year-old d...

An agreement signed Monday between Roosevelt University and Harper College creates a program grooming new Harper students for a spot in Roosevelt's College of Pharmacy within two years. Elgin Community College recently reached a similar agreement wi...

The Bartlett Woman's Club gave out two $900 scholarships, from money raised at the Bartlett Woman's Club annual Spring Fashion Show Fundraiser. The Woman's Re-entry Scholarship was established to assist women, age 21 and older, who wish to re-enter ...

The Kimball Hill Family Deaf Institute at Harper College is widely recognized as the standard in higher education. So it's fitting that the creators of "No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie" were on board with holding the film's Chicago-area premi...

Recently, the residents of Covenant Village of Northbrook, a faith-based, nonprofit continuing care retirement community administered by Covenant Retirement Communities, awarded two high school seniors - Daisey Cuevas and Tannor Murray - grant-in-ai...