Cindy Schreuder

South suburban holiday shoppers spent fast and furiously on the first traditional day of the Christmas shopping season. It was too early to tote up the dollars, but retailers said...

A state probe into the possible misuse of $400,000 in science grant money at Lake Forest schools was triggered by a trip former Principal Linda Chase took to Rome in...

As hearings into a test-cheating scandal opened last December in Lake Forest, District 67 teachers, principals, parents and the school board gathered to watch the proceedings in the overheated Deerpath...

A dispute over chopping trees in Highland Park has branched into the legal equivalent of a forest. Highland Park officials are asking a Lake County judge to rule that developer...

A proposed amendment to the Illinois Constitution that would force the state to pay for more than half of the cost of public schools was falling short late Tuesday in...

More than half of Illinois voters were endorsing a sweeping amendment to the Illinois Constitution requiring the state to pay more than half of the cost of public schools. But...

Hearings will continue for a tenured Cherokee Elementary School gym teacher who was fired after being charged with public indecency, an Illinois State Board of Education spokeswoman said Tuesday. At...

Almost lost amid the roar of presidential rhetoric is the whisper of local politics, including ballot questions about schools and town government that many Lake County voters will face. These...

On the gym floor Tuesday afternoon, the Wauconda Junior High School girls` volleyball team practiced spikes and sets before its game against Parkland Junior High School. A few steps away,...

Jerry Elsner begins every morning the same way: He gets up, has a cup of coffee and smokes a cigarette. Outside. Banished to the patio by his non-smoking wife, four...