A familiar name to area basketball fans will take over the St. Charles North girls program next year. Sean Masoncup, a 1997 graduate of Geneva High School who played basketball and tennis for the Vikings, will replace Colleen Backer as the North Sta...

A property that has stood vacant for years next to the Warrenville Public Library is expected to become the focus of redevelopment efforts now that the city has a new tax increment financing district. City council members on Monday night approved th...

Rounding third and heading home in this 2012-13 prep calendar year, let’s salute a few student-athletes who excelled on both those fronts. The Illinois High School Association annually releases an All-State Academic Team. This year’s 26 members, 13 ...

When Gov. Pat Quinn signed a one-year moratorium on the establishment of new virtual charter schools into law, suburban administrators expected an end to the appeal process currently under way for one such school. But that might not be the case. The...

Ron Havelka has been here many times before. But seldom, if ever, with a team quite like this. Havelka’s No. 9 seed Downers Grove South Mustangs — a team starting three freshmen and playing just two seniors — are back in a sectional final after hold...

Tuesday’s games * Class 4A St. Charles East sectional st. charles east 11, bartlett 2 Bartlett 100 100 0 -2-4-1 St. Charles East 401 006 x -11-8-2 2B: SCE — Lorinzini HR: B — Nowak; SCE —Peterburs, Latoria WP: Beno (19-3); LP: Pagan (14-6) * Class 4...

Waubonsie Valley found retribution in Charleston. Ever since a disappointing showing at the 2012 boys state track meet when the Warriors’ 1,600-meter relay went downstate with the third best sectional time, then finished seventh in its preliminary h...

As school winds down for suburban students, summer meal programs are gearing up. More than two dozen sites across six suburban counties will serve free meals open to all children during the summer, the Northern Illinois Food Bank announced. Other si...