Barbara Sherlock

It's one thing to tally all the elements needed for a well-told tale, but as 6th graders at Batavia Middle School learned recently, they're much more tantalizing to encounter. Dozens...

At first glance the four teenagers seemed too young to really understand what they were talking about. But any illusion of naivete disappeared with the impact of their words and...

It's a small, simple room with plain, beige walls and a few long, folding tables in a one-story building in Aurora. But it holds the mother lode of Christmas smiles...

Their voices booming with pride and strength, seven Aurora University students stepped up one by one Thursday as representatives of the seven principles celebrated in the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa....

A child's small shoe lay in a heap. The colored layers of its sole were exposed and raggedy, its upper canvas rumpled, its velcro tab dingy and bent and its...

Mike Block shared an important tip for those who may be geographically challenged: "There is no notch in Colorado." And then with a spin of his paint roller, he shaped...

Eight-year-old Kyle Woodward seemed surprised by his own admission about the Precious Moments figurines. "I thought they were just girls, not boys," said Kyle, a 3rd grader at Reskin School...

For 8th graders from Washington Middle School, their history and social studies classes moved off the textbook page and became a full sensory experience of ancient and modern culture in...

Promoted by its sponsor as "the ultimate marketplace" of information for senior citizens, thousands of seniors explored the Senior Lifestyle Expo held recently by the Northeastern Illinois Area Agency on...

The women's joyous laughter is unexpected. It overlaps the spirited conversations, filling the small room during the Women's Wisdom Project, which offers time and free art materials to low-income women....