Quinn doesn't stand by tax-extension timetable Gov. Pat Quinn declined Tuesday to repeat his assertion, first made in an interview with the Daily Herald, that he'd try to extend the state's 2011 tax increase in the weeks after the November elec...

Marklund took the next step toward expanding its Day School in Bloomingdale by breaking ground on a $4.2 million addition that focuses on students diagnosed on the autism spectrum. The future facility - dubbed the Ann Haskins Center - will allow Mar...

Suburban runners, including those with disabilities, are invited to participate in a fundraiser benefiting children and adults with developmental disabilities on Oct. 26 in Geneva. Registration is open for Marklund's second annual "Run, Walk & Roll"...

St. Charles North volleyball player Taryn Dal Degan said her family rings the bell for the Salvation Army during the holiday season. They make sandwiches for Lazarus House to distribute to people who are hungry. The senior setter said one of the qu...

Four-year-old Nathaniel Horsley of Roselle was all smiles as he recently navigated busy O'Hare International Airport concourses with his mom, his grandmother, Judy Smith, and Marklund teacher, Angela Williams. Together they entered the airport, pass...

Marklund residents were able to try out the new rubberized surface at the South Mill Creek Community Park Tuesday, and utilize part of the park that had previously been hard to access. The park, which is in Blackberry Township, previously had a bas...

Born and raised in Calcutta, India, Mitul Gandhi was part of a family of jewelers. His parents owned a jewelry business and so did many other relatives. "But I was the black sheep of the family," he joked. Instead of jewelry, he gravitated toward t...