This editorial is a consensus opinion of the Daily Herald Editorial Board. We've written this year to criticize outside pressures on our school board elections that can result in what Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 school board member Da...

The process is just beginning, but leaders in the high school boys gymnastics community say there will be a season, and a state series, next spring. Coaches, athletic directors and the Illinois High School Gymnastics Coaches Association are determin...

This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: Don't be surprised if the next time you are at Edward Hospital you hear a jazzy tune coming from the direction of the he...

Tuesday, July 4 Barrington Fourth of July Festival: Tuesday, July 4, in downtown Barrington. Family Fitness Run at 7 a.m., parade from Barrington High School at 10 a.m., Chicago Brass Band Quintet performs at 11:30 a.m. at Barrington's Whit...

Fourth of July is here, and that means fireworks. Here's a list of where you can see them July 4 and beyond. Find all of our Fourth of July coverage at dailyherald.com/. Tuesday, July 4 Schaumburg Boomers Fireworks Night: 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 4, at...

On one evening, bagpipers march between uniform rows of American flags planted in a Wheaton soccer field. On another, a high school student plays the trumpet in a sea of red, white and blue. But sometimes there is no music, just the sound of 2,000 c...

The DuPage County Fire Investigation Task Force is searching for the cause of a fire that broke out Saturday in a vacant Warrenville home. Authorities said firefighters from the Warrenville Fire Protection District responded at about 5:45 p.m. to a ...

A small grocery repository has been installed outside Wheeling's Indian Trails Public Library to help people struggling to afford food or personal care products. The house-shaped, wooden pantry — resembling many of the Little Free Library book excha...