Before March 2020, Gabriela Sanchez spent several hours each day on the top floor of the library at Harper College studying. Not only was it a quiet place for her to do homework, but it was her only access to the internet. When the stay-at-home orde...

LANSING, Mich (AP) - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that she was closing indoor seating in bars in parts of the state, including a college town where one brewpub has been linked to about 140 infections. Whitmer also signed a bill allo...

A new student group at Harper College in Palatine aims to help immigrant students, faculty and workers, known as Dreamers, through advocacy, referrals for legal services and community education. A U.S. Supreme Court decision Thursday upheld the Defe...

As you'd imagine, a shift working with coronavirus patients is completely different from a traditional workday, alumni of Harper College's nursing program say. "It's really night and day in terms of how we're caring for patients," said Hanan Aquil, ...

"Boys & Sex" by Peggy Orenstein (Harper) "Gay Like Me" by Richie Jackson (Harper) "Raising Boys to Be Good Men" by Aaron Gouveia (Skyhorse) Books about how to raise sons come packaged with a few assumptions. Chief among them is that d...

Sandra Diaz spent Thursday morning glued to her phone. But the 22-year-old Gurnee resident wasn't checking texts from friends. She was checking for updates on whether the Supreme Court would allow Dreamers like her to be deported. She wasn't the onl...

Community colleges in the Chicago area and across the state will be essential to the country's post-pandemic economic recovery. Reflective of and responsive to the communities they serve, community colleges meet ever-changing employer needs and supp...

Palatine village council members Monday night pulled the plug on this year's Street Fest but agreed to consider the idea of a drive-in concert as an alternative event. Street Fest had been scheduled from Aug. 28-30 in downtown Palatine. Launched in ...