The Chicago Bandits professional women's softball team and the Northern Illinois Lightning women's team have agreed to play an exhibition game for charity on July 5 at Judson University in Elgin. All proceeds from the event will be donated to the Su...

On Saturday, June 27, Judson University professor Christine Starzynski will tell the story of Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead at the Elgin Public Museum. It is Mexican tradition that the first two days of November belong to the dead; they are...

Pastors from local area churches were recognized at a recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Dundee Township held on June 16 at the Elgin Holiday Inn. "This is a first for our Rotary Club and we are honored to have our local community religious leade...

Elgin Community College (ECC) and Judson University of Elgin are strengthening their educational bond as Judson becomes the third campus partner of ECC's Center for Advanced Studies. A joint agreement signed by both institutions allows ECC students ...

Elgin Community College District 509 trustee Clare Ollayos' dedication to the Illinois Community College Trustees Association has made her the unanimous choice for the organization's 2009 Ray Hartstein Trustee Achievement Award. Ollayos, an Elgin-ba...

It would have been easy enough for Jennie Finch to walk away. The icon of women's fastpitch softball really didn't have anything more to achieve. She'd won a collegiate national championship, gold and silver Olympic medals and a professional champio...

In the first two weeks of the National Pro Fastpitch women's softball season, the Chicago Bandits raced out of the gate with an 8-2 record. We began the campaign with a five-game series against the Philadelphia Force, winning four times. The core of...

With the post-supersectional victory photographs already taken, Glenbard South pitcher Jess Wilkes turned to look for her softball glove. "I think when we won I just threw it because I got so happy when (Glenbard South coach Julie) Fonda was running...