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Kerry Conneely, co-editor of LTHS' 2020 yearbook, said they had to change their plans for springs sports coverage when the sports season was cancelled in March.

Lyons Township High School yearbook staff finally gets to see their finished product

July 31, 2020 at 1:26 p.m.

A group of Lyons Township High School students sat in a big circle outside the Vaughan fieldhouse in La Grange on a recent Monday evening. It was not a protest...

York High School in Elmhurst, part of Elmhurst Unit School District 205.

Availability of teachers and staff, along with COVID-19 cases, will affect Elmhurst District 205 back-to-school plan

July 30, 2020 at 2:55 p.m.

Elmhurst School District 205 officials say families want their children back in school, but whether that will happen in August depends not only on the coronavirus cases at that time,...

Hinsdale High School District 86 works to improve racial and cultural inclusion

July 28, 2020 at 4:57 p.m.

The Hinsdale High School District 86 staff is working to promote racial and cultural equity and inclusion with hopes the experiences of community members can help educate them. The district...

Samuel James Dewese, an alumnus of Lyons Township High School, quoted the late Congressman John Lewis when he spoke to the school board about the achievement gap between races: "When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up," Dewese said.

Lyons Township High School works to address achievement gaps between races

July 28, 2020 at 3:12 p.m.

Parents and community members are pushing Lyons Township High School officials to close the achievement gap between white students and students of color. Because some students, including Blacks, Hispanics and...

By having students attend only in the morning or in the afternoon, LTHS would avoid serving lunch, a setting when maintaining social distances and wearing masks would be challenging. Photo taken at North Campus in 2018.

Lyons Township High School to choose by Friday between a hybrid of in-person and online classes or all remote lesson

July 28, 2020 at 11:07 a.m.

Lyons Township High School officials plan to decide their back to school plan by Friday, based on the latest guidelines from the governor's office, the Illinois Department of Public Health...

Hinsdale District 86 back-to-school options: hybrid schedule or all online

July 24, 2020 at 3:36 p.m.

Hinsdale High School District 86 is offering most families two options for the start of school in August: Attend school in person two days a week and online the rest...

Developers want to separately build senior housing and a subdivision of 46 single-family houses on about 50 acres of the Institute in Basic Life Principles property on the north side of Ogden Avenue, east of Route 83.

Two Hinsdale projects — one for senior housing, another for single-family homes — proposed near Ogden and Route 83

July 24, 2020 at 10:54 a.m.

Developers think the Institute in Basic Life Principles' property in northwestern Hinsdale is a good location for a senior living community and a separate subdivision of single-family homes. Soon they...

Hinsdale officials said Nicole Hladik, a Hinsdale firefighter, Willowbrook resident and graduate of LTHS, died by suicide July 21.

Family and village looking for answers to Hinsdale firefighter’s suicide

July 23, 2020 at 3:32 p.m.

Family, friends and firefighters are mourning the death of Nicole Hladik, a Hinsdale firefighter who died of suicide Tuesday, village officials said. Hladik, who lived in Willowbrook, joined the Hinsdale...

Furnishings in the Hinsdale Library are sparse as almost all the chairs have been removed since the public is not allowed to read, work or study there due to coronavirus precautions.

Suburban libraries are reopening with capacity limits. Just don’t expect a place to sit down.

July 22, 2020 at 8:16 a.m.

Most area libraries for the past couple of months of the coronavirus shutdown have made their collections available digitally or through hands-free contact like curbside pickup. But they heard from...

DiCianni resigns as chairman of DuPage County health committee over behavior at a pro-police rally

July 24, 2020 at 10:32 a.m.

DuPage County Board member and former Elmhurst mayor Peter DiCianni resigned as chairman of the county's Health and Human Services Committee after several hours of criticism of his behavior at...

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