Barbara Sherlock

A jumble of people of all ages crowded inside a 30-foot cement square outside the Arts Center at the College of DuPage as they slowly patted dyed sawdust into a...

As the tension built midway through the game's second round, 3rd grader Brianna Kush not only had her first two fingers crossed on each hand, she also had squeezed each...

After passing out large sheets of yellow paper to the 3rd graders on the floor in front of him, Matt Corso quickly went through the seven steps of how to...

In matching polka-dotted playsuits, the two blond toddlers exploring behind furniture seemed to have traveled far from their photo on the nearby stack of a book written by their father....

For decades, it had been left to its obscurity, its floors buckling from the rain coming in through a hole in the roof, and its clapboard siding weathered to the...

In the end, the only real glitch in the countywide disaster drill was the dog food. More than 30 agencies participated in planning and running a drill that began on...

The sun that pushed temperatures into the 90s Friday glared down on hundreds of parents and children as they stood for several hours outside the Prisco Community Center, waiting for...

Imagine a peaceful lily and fish pond in the garden of a stately house. Then imagine a murder. "That's it. They got somebody drunk, hit them over the head with...

Like pioneers, five girls and a woman sat in the shade of drooping trees, their feet steadily pedaling the spinning wheels in front of them. But those pedaling feet were...

The transformation of 7-year-old Alabama visitor Kayla Twilley into a medieval peasant went quickly as a large green broadcloth robe went over her pastel, tie-dyed T-shirt and a matching hood...