Barbara Sherlock

Aaah! A few chosen moments for a little romance, a little mystery and intrigue. Commuters intent on catching their 7:07 a.m. express train to Chicago or elsewhere are taking a...

It's the age-old image of an affectionate bond, a boy and his dog. But as Buckley, a docile 7-year-old golden labrador, sat by a group of teenage boys Monday, their...

This was a place they knew they were welcome. "Sometimes you go out and apply for positions, and there's not supposed to be age discrimination, but you kind of get...

The adults call it an outdoor learning environment. The kids just call it fun. Playing games such as Duck Duck Goose on the grassy hollow outside their classroom and drawing...

If "how tall are you?" seems like a peculiar response by a shop owner to a request for a visit, it will make more sense after a trip to The...

As the bright blue light over the holding cell door flashed and the alarm blared throughout the Naperville Police Department, crime prevention specialist Marita Manning could almost blame it on...

If there had been just a hint of thunder or lightning, the garlic mustard would have had a stay of execution. But instead, through a steady downpour, groups of middle...

Sherry Weinstein needed a strong reason to stand in the bitter cold, holding a metal sign in her bare hands--and she found it. Weinstein and several dozen community members and...

Officially, it was about the Polish tradition of decorating eggs. But by the end of the lesson, pupils at Itasca's Washington Primary School on Tuesday knew much more about that...

It's 1864, the year Gen. William Sherman and his Union troops made their infamous "march to the sea" through Georgia during the Civil War. For Downers Grove residents in 1864,...