Patricia Tennison

There is scholarship money available but not enough applicants in some north and northwest communities for a relatively new joint venture between local governments and businesses. This is the second...

Rexroth Corp.'s Indramat Division, a machine and motion-control manufacturer, will break ground in spring for its North American headquarters in the Prairie Stone business park. Indramat will move from Wood...

Lorraine Smagala was fussing with some spare ribs in her 27-year-old gas oven recently when the alarm sounded. "It wouldn't shut off," said her husband, Steven Smagala, referring to the...

The choice of which religious days to honor as school holidays has been a delicate, and recurring, issue in Arlington Heights-based High School District 214. Just two years ago, hundreds...

Picasso's sculpture "The Bather" is making waves again, as a student group considers asking that the concrete nude female be removed from the Harper College campus. "It distorts the image...

Patrick Parks has spent nine years at Elgin Community College doing what he says community colleges are valuable for: teaching, rather than research or scholarship. The value of that teaching...

It took Sandy Haislet a year of hard work at her local community college before she decided she really wanted to pursue a bachelor's degree at a larger school. "It...

As word spread that Daniel Ruzich was among the passengers on USAir Flight 427, the football coaches at Brother Rice High School, where Ruzich had played more than a decade...

Years of research experience indicate that it is rare to find a casual link between a building and any illnesses suffered by its occupants. So perhaps it was not surprising,...

A long-awaited study released Wednesday showed that incidents of cancer and other illnesses at a Rolling Meadows junior high school were not related to the building and recommended that school...