Casey Banas

A citizens committee promoting a bond issue to build a new Hinsdale Middle School is trying an early morning approach to sell voters on the need for a new building....

Illinois Benedictine College is changing its name effective April 19. The college will become Benedictine University, a name change approved by its board of trustees last month after a recommendation...

DuPage County's newest and most expensive high school has its first principal. Kathryn Birkett, 39, has been named principal of Neuqua Valley High School, a $55 million school being built...

Time after time during the last year, Nathaniel Jarosz asked his mom, Fil , and dad, Mark, to give him all their pennies. Nathaniel is a 3rd grader at Bower...

The city has become the third west suburban community with an education foundation to sponsor a raffle to award one winner a $25,000 college scholarship. Naperville has done it twice...

The Batavia Foundation for Educational Excellence will give a $25,000 college scholarship to one person who buys a $25 raffle ticket. The drawing is a fundraiser, with proceeds to be...

DePaul University, based in Chicago, is moving into Naperville, with four classes that began Thursday in an office building. "We're looking for some new markets," said Denise Mattson, DePaul's media...

The 96 4th graders at Whittier Elementary School taught by Chris Crabtree, Chris Eriser, Cindy Buher and Kristin Hanson were studying numbers in the millions, but that was an abstract...

The stereotype of a high school football team may be that of a bunch of rowdy guys who think they run the school and blow off their classes without studying....