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A motorist brakes to stop as a buck leaps across a road in East Aurora, N.Y. in 2012.

It’s deer mating season. Motorists face danger of crashes, injuries.

November 1, 2019 at 10:42 a.m.

It's deer mating season and love is in the air. But while the bucks and does of Cook and Lake Counties actively pursue one another to produce their own little...

Maine East High School's Chem Plus member Katie Gruss demonstrates how the disappearing Ghost Crystal experiment works to an attendee of Maine East's Haunted Hallways Halloween event.

At ‘Haunted Hallways,’ Maine East students dazzle the very young – even when experiments explode

October 29, 2019 at 3:12 p.m.

More than 300 little goblins, ghouls and their families gathered Thursday for tricks and treats at Maine East High School's 4th annual Haunted Hallways celebration. Guests were welcomed at the...

More than 100 educators attend at workshop at Elmwood Park High School to learn to grade students' work under the standards-based grading system.

No more A’s on report cards: Elmwood Park schools pilot new grading system

October 20, 2019 at 8:25 p.m.

As Elmwood Park schools pilot a new grading system and anticipate rolling it out to the entire district next year, more than 100 educators gathered at Elmwood Park High School...

Mayor Barry Bass, at left holding scissors, owner Eric Sweatt and owner Caprice Sweatt (also holding scissors) cut the ribbon at the opening of The CBD Store surrounded by store employees, mall management and members of the Lincolnwood Chamber of Commerce.

Lincolnwood gets its first CBD store; owners say they want to promote wellness

October 15, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

When she was just a teenager, Caprice Sweatt was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Doctors prescribed her opioids as part of her treatment. Sweatt, who recently opened the CBD Store in...

Campers set up tents at the Niles Chick-fil-A First 100 Campout event.

Chicken lovers camp overnight as Chick-Fil-A opens; win free food once a week for a year

October 13, 2019 at 9:46 p.m.

More than 100 people showed up at the Niles Chick-fil-A, 5650 W. Touhy Ave., on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 9 to participate in the company-sponsored First 100 Campout event....

Because the actors in Leyden District 212's play "The Diary of Anne Frank" can't leave the stage, much as the Frank family could not leave the attic in which they were hiding from the Nazis, student actors say they have had to work harder on character development.

‘Diary of Anne Frank’ to be staged by Leyden this weekend

October 13, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Cast members are not the only stars of Leyden High School District 212's fall stage production of "The Diary of Anne Frank." The student-run crew has been hard at work...

Construction continues at East Leyden High School; this is how the new west side entrance and bus lane will look.

Leyden high schools approve unbalanced budget, but state gave $6.7 million to lower residents’ taxes

October 7, 2019 at 12:59 p.m.

Leyden Township High School District 212 approved its 2019-2020 budget at a board meeting last month and said they were expecting revenues of $84.4 million and expenditures of $117.3 million....

Cassandra Hutchinson, a Triton web systems analyst, speaks at the college's Sept. 24 board meeting.

Staff, board clash over Triton College labor negotiations

October 8, 2019 at 2:02 p.m.

Complaints and frustrated comments from both employees and the board president marked Triton College's board of trustees meeting Sept. 24. Contracts for two units of employees expired June 30 and...

Elmwood Park High School's board voted 4-2 to allow a waiver for some physical education requirements to free up students to take other classes.

Elmwood Park HS reduces physical education, English, business requirements, to provide other pursuits

September 24, 2019 at 6:05 p.m.

In an effort to create what it described as a more career-centered curriculum, the Elmwood Park Community Unit School District 401 school board lowered the number of courses required in...

Construction at East Leyden High School continues, but this is how the new west side entrance and bus lane will look.

East Leyden High renovations focus on functionality

September 23, 2019 at 12:29 p.m.

East Leyden High School is adding 134,000 square feet to the campus in the most extensive expansion and renovation since the building was constructed 96 years ago. The renovations are...

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