Madhu Krishnamurthy
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Despite guidelines, not all polling booths are 6 feet apartOct 21, 2020 1:00 am - Election polling officials must enforce 6-foot physical distancing and take other safety precautions to protect against COVID-19 spread during early voting. Yet, not all...
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Hundreds of suburbanites vote early as more polling sites openOct 19, 2020 1:00 am - Bearing with cold, drizzly weather, suburban voters spent as little as a few minutes and up to a couple of hours waiting outside municipal buildings, libraries, courthou...
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Two Oakton women employees earn national "40 under 40" awardOct 17, 2020 1:00 am - YouTube The duo recently was honored with the American Association for Women in Community Colleges' 40 Under 40 Award for their leadership at Oakton Community College in...
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Suburban women march calling attention to voting, racial and gender rightsOct 17, 2020 1:00 am - As the mother of a biracial child, Jen Perkins worries about a climate of growing racial unrest nationwide. "I'm a white mother of a Black child, and so racial justice a...
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Women's marches on tap in several suburbs SaturdayOct 16, 2020 5:30 am - Hundreds of people are expected to rally at women's marches across the suburbs Saturday, celebrating the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaran...
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District 158 board to discuss plan for middle, high schools ThursdayOct 14, 2020 5:30 am - The Huntley Community School District 158 board on Thursday will discuss a hybrid plan to allow a portion of the district's 5,167 sixth- through 12th-graders back into s...
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'Not an education': Stevenson parents, students blast remote learning, call for hybrid modelOct 12, 2020 1:00 am - Maria Newhouse moved to Long Grove so her daughter could attend Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire because of its reputation for academic excellence. But attending cl...
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A second wave: Thousands of suburban students begin return to classroomsOct 10, 2020 1:00 am - A second wave of suburban students is rolling into classrooms this month for in-person instruction under hybrid models, driven largely by mounting public pressure to reo...
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Group launches initiative to combat racism, make mosques more inclusiveOct 10, 2020 1:00 am - A Chicago-area Islamic group has launched an initiative to help mosques and other Islamic institutions be more inclusive of minorities and women. The Council of Islamic ...
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A story spanning nearly 6,000 miles: Stevenson senior, grandfather in China team up for bookOct 07, 2020 6:00 am - When schools closed in March due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Lily Jiang took the social isolation as an opportunity to reconnect with her roots by co-writing a bilingual b...