Stephanie Banchero

Following a trend developing quickly across the region, officials in Crete-Monee School District 201-U are offering algebra to 7th graders and pre-algebra to 6th graders. This year, 7th graders are...

After discovering three rabid bats in the last five weeks, state and Will County public health officials are warning residents to steer clear of bats and other wild animals and...

Requiring seat belts on large school buses wouldn't provide better protection to the 23 million children who ride the buses each day nationwide, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday....

Since the April election shifted power on the Joliet Junior College board of trustees, the new majority has spent an extensive amount of time investigating and lambasting the people who...

Just weeks after Chicago-area school districts opened the doors on a slew of new schools, saws continue whirling and hammers keep cracking in what promises to be the busiest school...

Teachers across the state hesitated to base their curricula on Illinois' new learning standards because they feared state education officials would abandon those standards if test scores were low and...

Overwhelmed by surging enrollment and barely able to build schools fast enough, Plainfield School District 202 is asking--begging, actually--Joliet and Plainfield officials to put the brakes on residential development in...

A Monee couple who allegedly posed as baby-sitters to lure children into their home and then molested and took sexually explicit photos of the children pleaded guilty Thursday in Will...

Overwhelmed by surging enrollment and barely able to build schools fast enough, Plainfield School District 202 is asking--begging, actually--Joliet and Plainfield town officials to put the brakes on residential development...

An Amtrak passenger train collided with a pickup truck traveling on a rarely used private road south of Elwood on Wednesday, killing the truck's two occupants but leaving more than...