Mary Ann Fergus

School superintendents' average pay in Illinois climbed 23 percent in the last five years, a jump experts said reflects an increasingly competitive market and a number of retirees with big...

A strike by teachers and support staff in Palatine-based Township High School District 211 was averted Thursday night when board members agreed to the union's salary demands. After a two-hour...

Teachers in two of the state's largest school districts have rejected new contracts, while a labor dispute in northern McHenry County will continue for at least another day as a...

Lourdes and Sacramento Delgado, both natives of Mexico, met and married in Elgin where they started a family that is larger than the American norm but considered small in their...

Bail was set at $250,000 Wednesday for a woman accused of helping a convicted murderer escape from an Elgin mental health center, police said. Lisa Mack, 38, of the 8000...

With classes scheduled to start next week, a Hanover Park teenager is wondering why she is not being allowed to attend a local high school. Cordeirdre Mitchell, 14, moved in...

The tainted pet food scare, which has swelled into a serious crisis for animal lovers, now has spread to humans. California officials have revealed that the contamination got into the...

Schaumburg High School was evacuated Thursday after a student was overheard saying he planned to make a bomb and was later found with "gloves, wires and drill bits," police said....

After driving the streets for a predawn look at the snow-blown roads, Harry Griffith made his final call early Tuesday: The Lake Forest public schools would stay open. Then this...

If authorities exhume the bodies of five nursing home residents at the heart of a police investigation, it won't be easy to determine whether they received a lethal drug overdose,...