Voters in Elgin Area School District U-46 will decide this April if the district can issue bonds to rebuild and renovate older schools. School board members voted Monday to put a referendum question on the April ballot. The district will ask voters ...

Curriculum, taxes, library books and even student groups are among the issues driving school board races across the suburbs. Monday was the last day for candidates to file petitions to get their names on the April 4 ballot. While some districts saw ...

This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: Eyes got big and smiles got even bigger Tuesday morning as a special potbellied guest walked into the lunchroom a couple...

“Bald Sisters” - ★ ★ ½ Women who have sisters will likely recognize the sibling dynamic that underscores “Bald Sisters,” Vichet Chum's domestic dramedy about a family of Cambodian immigrants confronting loss, unresolved trauma and their own identit...

WASHINGTON - After scaling 40-year highs, inflation in the United States has been slowly easing since summer. Yet the Federal Reserve seems decidedly unimpressed - and unconvinced that its fight against accelerating prices is anywhere near over. On ...

NEW YORK - Say goodbye to virtual wine tastings, and bust out the karaoke. Love them or hate them, company holiday parties are back - in a toned-down kind of way. After more than two years of working in pajama bottoms and clinking glasses over Zoom,...

Tommy Davidson on stage Actor/comedian Tommy Davidson (Disney+ "The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder"; "In Living Color") who has recently ventured into jazz-pop with the single "I Know," headlines the Chicago Improv, 5 Woodfield Road, Woodfield Mal...

Eyes got big and smiles got bigger Tuesday morning as a special potbellied guest walked into the lunchroom a couple of minutes late to a surprise holiday celebration at Washington Elementary School in Elgin. A jolly, bearded fellow in a red suit wa...

Elgin Area School District U-46 officials are considering seeking voter approval in April for funds to replace aging schools. Members of Unite U-46, a group exploring building needs for the last year, Monday recommended the board pursue an April re...

Meagen Balzer was enjoying life as a 20-something advertising and public relations executive in Chicago. A conversation with her father changed everything. "I told my dad I felt like a teacher with all these new college graduates," she said. "I was ...