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NEW YORK — The stock market had a swift and clear reaction to the Federal Reserve’s decision to trim its stimulus efforts: That wasn’t so bad after all.
Stocks surged Wednesday, lifting the Dow Jones industrial average nearly 300 points to another r...
Updated: Dec 18, 2013 at 05:04 PM
Elgin Area School District U-46’s Transformation Task Force recently presented its final report with recommendations to the school board about allowing increased time during a school day for student intervention and enrichment by teachers, and provi...
Updated: Dec 17, 2013 at 11:49 PM
About 200 needy families won’t have to worry about not having enough food for the holidays this year thanks to the South Elgin Lions Club.
The club expects to distribute between six and seven tons of food this year to families that were suggested fo...
Updated: Dec 17, 2013 at 06:59 PM
WASHINGTON — Year-end legislation to ease Congress’ chronic budget brinkmanship and soften across-the-board spending cuts moved to the cusp of final passage Tuesday, a rare display of Senate bipartisanship that masked strong Republican complaints ab...
Updated: Dec 18, 2013 at 08:05 AM
One of the more unique high-school sporting arrangements can be found at the Gymkhana gymnastics facility in Hanover Park.
That’s the practice home of the Elgin Area School District U-46 girls gymnastics team — a co-op program open to all five distr...
Updated: Dec 17, 2013 at 07:39 PM
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Dozens of Elgin Area School District U-46 students will have a brighter holiday season this year thanks to the generosity of several of the district’s area business partners.
Wells Fargo in Elgin, the Wisdom Family Foundation, and...
Updated: Dec 16, 2013 at 07:59 AM
Eleanor Parker, who was nominated for Academy Awards three times for her portrayals of strong-willed women and played a scheming baroness in “The Sound of Music,” has died at 91.
Parker was nominated for Oscars in 1950, 1951 and 1955, but then saw h...
Updated: Dec 15, 2013 at 08:15 AM
Streamwood High School Science Teacher Greg Reiva’s engaging worm farm classroom projects are highlighted in a new book called “Enhancing Adolescents’ Motivation for Science: Research-Based Strategies for Teaching Male and Female Students.”
Written...
Updated: Dec 13, 2013 at 02:18 PM
Kristina Arns
Bartlett High School
Hometown:Bartlett
Class: Senior
Parents:Sherri and Robert Arns
Sponsor:Michelle McCann, school counselor
Community service:Class council officer; as a Girl Scoutplanned activities for younger Scouts and is working ...
Published: Dec 13, 2013 at 05:45 AM
The new realities about school safety are known well. Drills instructing students and staff how to protect themselves from armed intruders are the norm, and lockdown is a word even small children now understand.
Sadly, it has to be this way. The ann...
Published: Dec 13, 2013 at 05:00 AM