Harper College, citing aging buildings and a string of state cuts, will have to dip into reserves in order to balance next year's budget. Trustees on Thursday approved a preliminary fiscal year 2008-09 budget totaling $182.4 million, a 2 percent inc...

Daily Herald report On Saturday, Feb. 26, Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley will hold its annual Walk-A-Thon at Spring Hill Mall in West Dundee. Team and individual registration begins at 7:30 a.m., with the walk beginning at 8 a.m. Walker...

Northwestern University clinical social worker Darby Morhardt has worked with Alzheimer's patients for more than 20 years. But for all her expertise, Morhardt, who works in the school's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, has never h...

Very little experience didn't stop Conant from going a long way last winter. The Cougars repeated as Mid-Suburban League boys basketball champions for the first time. And this summer they're trying to build around a solid group of returnees to make ...

Three words: baklava ice cream. The summer staple meets the classic Balkan pastry for the first time at the 35th annual Greek Fest, which starts Friday at St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church in Palatine. More than 10,000 people are expected to atten...

The idea that no one could shake the stronghold of the nation's second largest county has been around for decades. But while detractors call it everything from impractical to comical, the prospect of the Northwest suburbs breaking away from Cook Cou...

Comic actor and director Woody Allen once said, "Eighty percent of success is showing up." Whatever your views of Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, you have to give him that. He showed up in the suburbs Monday night, and it's amazing how muc...