Patricia Tennison

A long-awaited environmental report on Plum Grove Elementary School is expected just before a Aug. 17 special meeting of the Community Consolidated District 15 school board. Outside experts who did...

The final designs are in, and if the future Fairview Elementary School in Mt. Prospect takes on a homey look, well, it's supposed to. "The school is in a residential...

The crowds will have to find a new champion this summer, for the Dundee Imperial Scots are calling it quits. The summer marching band, which has won dozens of trophies...

In the true spirit of hands-on education, a dozen students from the northwest suburbs wielded plastic hammers Monday to symbolically begin renovation of a Barrington building that will become a...

The teachers and school board in Elementary School District 59 have agreed to a two-year contract. The teachers' District 59 Education Association ratified the agreement Monday and the board agreed...

For the fourth time in as many springs, a northwest suburban high school student has become infected with meningitis, the occasionally fatal and relatively rare communicable disease that attacks the...

While most of the counties in the state still tend to hospitalize people with mental illness, DuPage County is winning high praise from the state Department of Mental Health for...

It was the odor that led officials to a quiet, neat looking townhouse in Hanover Park: the smell of two kittens, five cats, seven rabbits, 25 birds and 37 dogs-and...

A projected windfall of more than $24 million could be coming to 23 DuPage County municipalities during the next two years in the form of DuPage Water Commission rebates. The...

High-flying radar aboard the space shuttle Endeavour may be able to penetrate deep into the sands of the Arabian Desert to uncover the answer to an ancient mystery: Was the...