North Central College has hired former Judson University softball coach Venus Taylor as its new coach. Taylor spent the last two seasons at Charleston Southern University in South Carolina. She led the team to a Big South Conference Tournament appea...

Dick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as U.S. attorney general restored credibility to a Justice Department hurt by the Iran-Contra scandal, has died. He was 88. Th...

Senior Rebecca Johnson of Mount Prospect was recognized as Judson University's 2020 Student Laureate of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in a special Facebook Live event Dec. 8. Every fall, a meritorious senior from each of the four-year, degree-gra...

This year we need to celebrate Christmas more than ever. We have to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and praise him because we are weak without Jesus, and especially now we have to keep our faith alive and strengthen it. Dr. Warren Anderson, dire...

Judson University in Elgin will celebrate the Class of 2020 during two ceremonies on Saturday, Dec. 12. Dr. Rob Currie, Judson Psychology Department Chair and author, will give the keynote address for the 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. ceremonies. Currie rec...

College of DuPage will host a virtual Private Illinois Colleges and Universities Transfer Fair from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11. Access to the fair will be provided via COD's Transfer Events website at www.cod.edu/academics/transfer/events...

NEW YORK (AP) - Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims and people of other faiths prayed and sang together in post-election solidarity Wednesday afternoon in New York City, even as the outcome of the hotly contested and polarizing vote was still in do...

College of DuPage will host a virtual Private Illinois Colleges and Universities Transfer Fair from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11. Access to the fair will be provided via COD's Transfer Events website at www.cod.edu/academics/transfer/events...

I still remember the day I came out to the woman who would become my wife. "You?" she stammered in disbelief. "You were in a fraternity?" As a proud "GDI" (Independent) at the Greek-heavy University of Illinois, she had grown accustomed to making as...

Hanover Park village leaders are developing action items to deliver services more equitably after a series of virtual town halls that wrapped up last week. Residents' feedback has helped prioritize areas in need of improvement, such as more transpar...