Barbara Sherlock

With cartoonish and colorful images, a new mural at Davea Career Center in Addison delivers a bright and gentle message of the power of individual caring and responsibility. And for...

Timidly, pupils at Pioneer School stretched their fingers forward Wednesday to touch the quills of a porcupine for the first time and to stroke the silky green skin of an...

It was a perfect day for their debut. The vibrant colors of the simple drawings by 3rd graders from School District 205 burst through a recent cold, dreary morning from...

Even with a tempting array of pretzel and mint rooftops, doorsteps of gum drops and jelly beans, windows of licorice and sugar wafers, and eaves dripping with white icing, practicality...

If as the rumors say, the ghost of Amy McCormick truly does walk the hallways of the mansion at Cantigny, she must be pleased. Each doorway, fireplace mantle and antique...

The needle-pointed footstool and little chairs around two wooden rocking chairs have become the favorite place in the school library for the 440 pupils at Wegner Elementary to listen to...

Groups of children sat at tables in the Charlestowne Mall outside Sears tearing at small pieces of clumps of sterilized owl pellets looking for little bones and skulls of small...

Mere mortals may note he is the person who baked up the first batch of melba toast. But those in the culinary arts revere the 19th Century Chef Auguste Escoffier...

For Elizabeth Doherty of Elmhurst, baking with her mother and selling the goodies was a way to make money during the Great Depression. For Nan Barnhart of Clarendon Hills, three...

"Police officer" are not the first words the cross country team members from Hill Middle School use when they talk about Naperville Police Officer Ray Adkins. It's coach, encourager, friend....