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Jonathan Pierce of the Illinois National Guard, right foreground, trains other members on proper sanitation procedures inside a tent where COVID-19 testing begins May 22, 2020, at Rolling Meadows High School. Up to 750 people can be tested daily for free, with the site open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. or until they run out of tests.

Drive-thru coronavirus test site — the first at an Illinois high school — opens in suburban Rolling Meadows

May 22, 2020 at 3:53 p.m.

Aiming to halt the spread of the coronavirus in underserved communities, Illinois health department officials announced Thursday that the state's first COVID-19 testing site to be based at a high...

Wilmette rabbi raises spirits during COVID-19 pandemic with inspirational lawn signs

May 19, 2020 at 12:15 p.m.

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the Chabad Center of Wilmette's annual communal Passover Seder last month, Rabbi Moshe Teldon quickly shifted gears. He arranged the delivery of...

Most classes at Harper College in Palatine will continue to be virtual in the fall, officials have decided.

Fall classes will be mostly online at Harper community college in Palatine as other schools mull how to reopen

May 18, 2020 at 4:24 p.m.

Determined to keep their students, faculty and staff safe from the COVID-19 virus, officials at Harper College have announced that classes for the fall 2020 semester will be offered "primarily...

Recent vandalism, car break-ins in Wilmette, Glenview, contrary to overall decline in reports amid COVID-19 pandemic, police say

May 18, 2020 at 2:42 p.m.

Police say a recent rash of vandalism and car break-ins hitting Wilmette and Glenview neighborhoods in recent weeks represents an outlier in what appears to be an overall reduction in...

Hersey High senior Emily Butryn,, 17, holds a portrait of herself on her iPad in her cap and gown outside of her Arlington Heights home. Students at high schools throughout the area, including Butryn, have launched petitions seeking to have traditional graduation ceremonies rescheduled after COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings are lifted.

High school and college seniors are petitioning their schools to hold in-person graduation ceremonies later rather than never

May 14, 2020 at 11:33 a.m.

Students at more than a dozen suburban Chicago high schools and Northwestern University have launched online petitions demanding that their canceled graduation ceremonies be rescheduled once COVID-19 restrictions on public...

Anya Pierce sets up a graduation sign at the home of one of the Evanston Township graduating seniors on May 11. The Evanston Township High School Boosters are gifting signs to all the students in the Class of 2020, and the staff was delivering them to each senior's home.

Officials at North Shore high schools plan for virtual graduations as in-person ceremonies appear less likely

May 12, 2020 at 12:37 p.m.

As officials at North Shore high schools prepare to host virtual celebrations this month, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's recently unveiled phased-in reopening plan for the state could mean that any...

Longtime Wilmette pharmacist who delivered prescriptions dies at 82: ‘The drug store was his life’

May 12, 2020 at 11:59 a.m.

Back in the 1970s, long before Amazon became a household name, Wilmette pharmacist Louis Sotonoff provided home delivery of prescriptions to loyal customers who were unable to make the trip...

Sisters Alexa Boden, left, and Mariel Boden, shown outside their Lake County home, returned from college to find both of their parents were sick with COVID-19.

Suburban couple who were both in ICU with coronavirus have survived, been moved to care facility. ‘It’s quite frankly a miracle.’

May 11, 2020 at 8:20 a.m.

Two suburban sisters whose parents both landed in intensive care with COVID-19 say they feel hope and gratitude as their parents begin what is expected to be a long road...

Teacher Daniel Michmerhuizen helps his sons Mateo, 6, and Mario, 11, both Chicago Public Schools students, with remote learning May 8, 2020, at home in Chicago. Michmerhuizen is a civics teacher at Benito Juarez Community Academy.

Teachers in face masks? Staggered attendance? Lunch in classrooms? How and when Chicago-area schools will reopen remains elusive, despite ‘Restore Illinois’ phase-in plan.

May 11, 2020 at 8:14 a.m.

When classrooms went virtual more than six months into the school year, Daniel Michmerhuizen leaned on the relationships he'd built with his students at Chicago's Benito Juarez Community Academy. If...

Despite canceled choir tour and spring concert, Loyola Academy students determined to keep singing

May 7, 2020 at 9:57 a.m.

Earlier this year, Loyola Academy choral music director Maggie Simons was looking forward to her students performing their annual spring concert in March, followed by traveling with the teens on...

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