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New Trier High School students refuse to let pandemic cancel fall variety show, a tradition for more than 80 years

September 25, 2020 at 4:44 p.m.

New Trier High School junior Ethan Hoffman said he and his fellow student directors hesitated only briefly when they realized after more than eight decades, the COVID-19 pandemic would prevent...

Two of the 15 French bulldog puppies that were rescued from a warehouse at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport are seen in quarantine in Chicago Oct. 2, 2020.

Rescue group says sick dogs rescued from O’Hare warehouse might be shipped back to the Middle East: ‘Why is this happening?’

September 25, 2020 at 12:48 p.m.

Fifteen sick dogs rescued from a cargo warehouse at O'Hare International Airport last month are facing a dire future, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allegedly demanding the...

Avoca District 37 teachers rally to protest what they say are potential program cuts, larger class sizes

September 24, 2020 at 3:37 p.m.

Teachers with Wilmette-based Avoca School District 37 are expected to rally outside district headquarters Thursday evening in protest of proposed program cuts and larger class sizes. The teachers, who are...

Parents and students of Districts 45 and 88 rally at Lufkin Park in support of reopening schools, Sept. 21, 2020, in Villa Park.

‘This is not good enough.’ Chicago-area parents rally to get kids back in school, and some districts are making it happen.

September 28, 2020 at 4:42 p.m.

Her three children had always been good students, but since being relegated to online learning in Downers Grove, Carrie Swenson has had to guard against sleeping during class, poor grades...

Neuqua Valley High School students arrive to take their SAT tests at the Naperville school on Sept. 23, 2020.

Scores of Illinois high schools reopened Wednesday for SAT makeup exams. Critics say seniors don’t need the added test stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.

September 23, 2020 at 5:58 p.m.

Thousands of high school seniors across the Chicago area, sidelined from in-person learning this fall by COVID-19, were back in their schools Wednesday for the first time in six months....

Kim Hauber, widow of Buffalo Grove firefighter Kevin Hauber, sits in the lobby of the Illinois Second District Appellate Court on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019 in Elgin. The Village of Buffalo Grove is arguing to overturn the lower court's decision to award full benefits to the Hauber family. Kevin Hauber died of cancer in 2018 leaving behind his wife and four young daughters. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Widow of Buffalo Grove firefighter who died of duty-based cancer now battling village to get health insurance for family

September 21, 2020 at 10:41 a.m.

The widow of a Buffalo Grove firefighter who died of duty-based cancer in 2018 said this week she is now facing a battle with the village for health care coverage...

North Shore school district backs off proposed COVID-19 policy keeping quarantined kids off remote learning: ‘There are no travel police’

September 18, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.

At the urging of officials with the Illinois State Board of Education, Sunset Ridge School District 29 on Friday scrapped a proposed policy that would have prohibited students who are...

Workers load the Cessna 177 Cardinal plane onto a flatbed tow truck Sept. 17, 2020.

Small plane crash-lands on a road in Palatine: ‘I saw a plane flying really low and expected the worst’

September 18, 2020 at 4:05 p.m.

A small plane crash-landed onto a road in a residential area in Palatine Thursday evening. No one was injured in the rush-hour wreck, Palatine police Sgt. Michael Campbell said, and...

Donna Roginski, right, and Julie Busse have been cataloging grave sites at St. Peter's Cemetery in Skokie since the Wilmette Family History Center has been closed due to the pandemic.

For suburban cemetery sleuths, documenting local tombstones proves a fulfilling project in the pandemic era

September 21, 2020 at 1:23 p.m.

At first glance, the septuagenarians carefully brushing leaves and lichen from the tombstones at a suburban cemetery seem to have stepped straight out of a scene from a British mystery...

At South Middle School in Arlington Heights, students work individually on remote learning lessons. Though schools are closed for in-person classes, families are paying to have their children supervised in school.

Remote learning, in school? Some suburban public schools closed by COVID-19 have reopened for e-learning supervision — at a price to taxpaying parents.

September 17, 2020 at 8:21 a.m.

After being inundated with emails and calls from frustrated parents who wanted their kids back in class this fall, Arlington Heights School District 25 officials sought a way to help....

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