This week Verse Immersive, The Art of the Future: Noon to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 1-2; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 3-4; and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, at Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago. A holographic, 30-...

Northwest Suburban High School District 214 board candidate Misa Edwardsen will remain on the April 4 ballot, for now, after an objection to her candidacy was overruled. But objector Janice Phares of Arlington Heights has until Wednesday to decide i...

Elgin Area School District U-46 Superintendent Tony Sanders Tuesday was named the next state superintendent of education. Sanders will assume his new duties in late February. Sanders said Tuesday he was honored to be selected for the job after a n...

ONE YEAR AGO THIS WEEKEND, Dick Duchossois died at age 100. Close to 16 months since the Bears participated in the announcement of a "purchase agreement" involving Arlington Park and Churchill Downs Inc., his once regal playground continues to rot. ...

George Diedrichs wakes up every morning, laces up his running shoes and heads out on a mission. Around 7:30 a.m., Diedrichs heads west on Barlina Road in Crystal Lake to Golf Course Road, then turns left. He runs a mile to Ackman Road, then turns ar...

If you have a child in your life who loves to cook, is a picky eater, enjoys digging in the garden, or just likes to giggle, I have the perfect book for you. There are cookbooks, picture books and books that blur those categories. They're part of a ...

Watch students converge on many suburban schools in the morning and you'll see some walkers, a posse of buses and an inevitable car line stretching down the street. It wasn't always that way, Federal Highway Administration data shows. In 1969, 42% ...

Co-interim superintendents took the helm of Northwest Suburban High School District 214 Friday as the search continues for outgoing Superintendent David Schuler's permanent replacement. District 214 Associate Superintendent for Teaching and Learning...