Barbara Sherlock

Six-year-old Austin Lan is moving. Constantly. Smiling, he tries to sit still to answer a question, but quickly propels himself off the chair and is gone. Moments later, however, he...

The hospital game: Climbing the furniture won't be the only game for children passing time at the new emergency care center at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove. Now they'll...

They were eager. They were primed. They had the knowledge. And most important, they had their garbage. Looking like Christmas elves gone amok with 30-gallon black plastic bags of garbage...

Soft smiles and big grins were on the faces of Allied Van Line employees as 80 of their small "business partners" from Longwood Elementary School serenaded them with Christmas songs...

Cinnamon sugar, chocolate chip, oatmeal and butter cookies-lots of them, and lots of others. More than 5,000 cookies lay on tables and the floor in foil-lined shirt boxes, Tupperware, paper...

It's simple. Give one book of stamps or one greeting card. Get six warm bagels. Throughout December, customers at area Bruegger's Bagels stores can help a special group send a...

"Anybody here smoke?" may seem a silly way to ignite the attention of a room full of 5th graders, but to students last week at Steck School, it was the...

Although Rick Sayre's art is carefully conducted in a modern Lombard storefront, there is an Old World reverence surrounding it. Perhaps it's knowing that the clarinet mouthpieces he crafts in...

Some residents may miss the four tall metal slides that formerly towered at the Knoch Park playground. But the recently completed transformation of the quarter-acre into a play area of...

With pumpkins and corn stalks beginning to appear and store aisles sprouting Halloween candy and costumes, the timing seemed perfect this week to remind West Chicago schoolchildren of all the...