Stephanie Banchero

Constructing several new schools in Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 will cost area taxpayers $18 million less than planned, thanks to a state construction grant. State officials announced Tuesday...

Union and district officials in Joliet Township High Schools District 204 reached a tentative contract agreement Monday, averting a potential strike that threatened to shut the schoolhouse doors on 4,100...

Shoppers rose before the sun to get to the Best Buy store and nearby retailers in Orland Park Friday. "It was a pretty long line, but there were several stores...

Capping a tumultuous year at the helm of the nation's oldest community college, Joliet Junior College President Thomas Gamble announced Tuesday he will resign Dec. 31, a year and a...

The Illinois State Board of Education unanimously voted Thursday to let a group of parents switch their homes--and subsequently their children--from the Joliet Township High School District 204 boundaries into...

Though teachers in Joliet Township High School District 204 voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to file a notice of intent to strike, they remained hopeful that a planned Wednesday meeting with a...

Union and school officials in Joliet Township High School District 204 emerged from a six-hour negotiating session Monday without an agreement on a new teachers contract but with hope that...

Will County State's Atty. James Glasgow on Sunday said he will suspend, and subsequently seek to fire, the prosecutor who worked on a custody case in which a 7-month-old Steger...

Will County State's Atty. James Glasgow on Sunday said he will suspend, and subsequently seek to fire, the prosecutor who worked on a custody case in which a 7-month-old Steger...

Prodded by three tenacious mothers, Cook County prosecutors have changed their minds and decided to charge a Tinley Park man with felony murder in connection with a drunken-driving accident that...