It'll be early Sunday morning when about 6,000 runners in the third annual Healthy Driven Naperville Marathon and Half Marathon dash past the Naperville Country Club, through the streets lined by houses in the Westside Homeowners Association and aro...

The toughest part about change often is finding someone to be first. On the issue of pushing school start times back later in the morning to be more in line with identified teenage sleep patterns, Stevenson High School will take the lead in the subu...

Editor's note: A previous version of this story said that 25.4 percent of 8th grade students in Illinois passed algebra. The state has updated its numbers to reflect that 28.4 percent of students hit that metric last year. One of the new stati...

Story spinner Get ready to laugh at plenty of quirky and wryly observational tales by spending An Evening with David Sedaris. The best-selling author of books such as “Naked” and “Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls“ appears tonight at the Auditor...

Roughly 180 students pass through the halls each day inside Butler Junior High School in Oak Brook. Some take classes in the broadcast studio, working together to write scripts, produce films and edit videos for their fellow students. Seventh-grader...

Lincolnshire-Prairie View Elementary District 103 officials are considering changing when the school day begins at their three campuses. The district's examination of the issue follows recommendations by health experts to start middle school and...

Funny talk Catch up with former “Tonight Show” TV host Jay Leno when he performs standup at two locations this week: First at the Genesee Theatre, 203 N. Genesee St., Waukegan, (847) 263-6300 or geneseetheatre.com, $48-$128; then at the Paramount Th...

Soprano star Actress Kristin Chenoweth is famed for both her work on Broadway (“Wicked,” “On the 20th Century”) and in Hollywood (“Glee,” “Pushing Daisies”). See this entertainment dynamo in concert at the Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State St., Chicago....