Casey Banas

The Illinois Board of Education on Thursday approved a budget seeking a $410 million increase in state funds for elementary and high schools. The $3.45 billion spending plan for 1993-94...

Benet Academy has launched a $3 million fundraising drive for building improvements, including a new gymnasium with seating for 2,000. The funds also will be used to reroof the existing...

An Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy student was named Monday as one of 40 national finalists in the 52nd annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Elizabeth Pine, who lives in Jackson...

A. Duane Litfin, a Memphis minister, on Monday was named president of Wheaton College, the seventh in the 133-year history of the Christian liberal arts college. On Aug. 1, Litfin...

For 25 years, a mural that students say nobody looked at covered two cafeteria walls at Hinsdale Central High School. It depicted the railroad station, the library, the community house,...

Waubonsee Community College was awarded a $100,000 state grant this week to pioneer ways to use technology in educating adults who have not graduated from high school. The Illinois Community...

Lee Marek, Naperville North High School chemistry teacher and a founder of the ''Weird Science'' segment on the David Letterman show, is going to Bangkok to give two presentations during...

Stacey Fergelec and Matt Simundic were married Thursday at Hinsdale South High School in Darien, but it was only a classroom exercise. The mock wedding was the culmination of a...

The College of Du Page has received only a handful of complaints since installing condom vending machines in the men`s and women`s washrooms. Since the machines were placed in September...

A recommendation by School Supt. E. James Travis to change the rules for what was to be a study of the continued use of the ''Impressions'' book series in its...