Stephanie Banchero

Students in Crete-Monee District 201-U schools soon may see Dr Pepper-sponsored banners in school hallways and 7-Up advertisements on book covers. The promotional devices will come to the schools via...

For Supt. Roberta Berry, it comes down to simple math. How do you squeeze 2,600 kids into classrooms built for 2,100? You can teach computer classes in the hallways. You...

Richton Park police on Wednesday were investigating the death of a Cook County sheriff's police officer found shot to death in the basement closet of her south suburban home. Janice...

A group of Tinley Park merchants said Tuesday that it would aggressively work to defeat Tinley Park School District 146's $20 million bond proposal if school officials do not conduct...

Chaney-Monge School District 88 Supt. Gus Tomac carries the blue, three-ring binder around like a Bible. Never far from reach, the compendium of graphs and charts serves as the main...

Though Franciscan nun Mary Kay Flanigan spent the last six months behind bars for protesting the U.S. Army School of the Americas, she clearly did not let the incarceration silence...

Faced with burgeoning population growth, officials in several Will County and south suburban Cook County school districts are asking voters to approve spending a staggering $335 million to build schools...

In an attempt to deflect attention from President Clinton's troubles and attract a little bit to himself, 11th Congressional District challenger Gary Mueller made a public show Wednesday of swearing...

Faced with burgeoning population growth, officials in several Will County and south suburban Cook County school districts are asking voters to approve spending a staggering $335 million to build schools...

Teachers in Chicago Heights School District 170 overwhelmingly approved a three-year contract Tuesday, ending a walkout that left more than 3,100 students out of school for seven days. The contract,...