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Shirley Garrison carries around a thick, black notebook filled with meticulous notes. The 86-year-old history buff loves to flip through the pages, recalling the wide range of classes she's taken from a look at the first Mayor Daley to one woman's j...
Updated: Aug 01, 2014 at 11:49 AM
City of Prospect Heights police officers, city employees, aldermen and volunteers offered their time July 24 to accompany 30 youths on a field trip to the Wheeling Park District Aquatics Center. While at the aquatics center, the children learned to ...
Updated: Aug 01, 2014 at 12:58 PM
Four Chicago area men are accused of bilking federal student loans from Harper College in Palatine, Elgin Community College and Joliet Junior College.
Prosecutors said the men attempted to obtain $240,000 worth of student loans, but were successful...
Updated: Jul 31, 2014 at 03:36 PM
Harper College Trustee Bill Kelley has taken over the reins of Illinois Community College Trustees Association (ICCTA), a statewide group that has been a vocal advocate for increasing state funding for all community colleges in Illinois. Kelley will...
Updated: Jul 30, 2014 at 08:34 AM
Harper College is at the heart of a new compilation of Jim Croce songs about to be released, nearly 41 years after the folk-rock singer-songwriter died in a plane crash.
Croce performed before a capacity crowd February 2, 1973, on the Palatine campu...
Updated: Jul 30, 2014 at 08:36 AM
Although Harper softball player Amanda Forssander only played for the Hawks for one season (2013), she relished the opportunity to compete at the college level. In her only season, the Prospect High School grad hit over .300 and earned Team MVP hono...
Updated: Jul 29, 2014 at 08:24 AM
Since 1998, Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 has spent $1.06 million fighting the tax appeals of commercial property owners, winning back $12.25 million from settled and withdrawn challenges.
The district's attorneys say their success ra...
Updated: Jul 28, 2014 at 03:43 PM
Harper College English professor Greg Herriges never expected his band Athanor to get a record deal. When that finally happened in 2013 - 40 years after recording their first collection of demos - he assumed that was as far as the band could go.
"We...
Updated: Jul 28, 2014 at 10:25 AM
A few months ago, I launched a diabolical plan to entice my teenage daughters to spend more time with me, and to semi-shelter them from the maddening world.
I started a Friday Crafting Night for my two girls and their friends.
Brad Sachs, a psychol...
Updated: Jul 27, 2014 at 08:24 AM
With Harper College men's soccer team tryouts just around the corner on Friday, Aug. 1, head coach Dan Klaus has announced the times and dates for tryouts:
10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1; and from 10 a.m.-noon Monday, Aug. 4 through Friday Aug. 8.
A...
Updated: Jul 25, 2014 at 03:11 PM