Stephanie Banchero

Officials with Community Consolidated School District 146 have selected a tentative site to build the proposed middle school. The school board hopes to buy 27 about acres between 181st and...

Americans, or at least the most news-obsessed Americans, parked in front of their television sets Monday for the extraordinary sight of the president delivering testimony before a grand jury about...

After 15 hours of sometimes tense negotiations, teachers and school officials at Chicago Heights School District 170 reached a tentative agreement Monday morning on a three-year contract. Neither side would...

Four men were charged Sunday night with murder in the killing of a father and son during a robbery at their popular gun shop in south suburban Glenwood. Charged were...

When African-American parents in University Park sued Crete-Monee School District 201-U over alleged racial discrimination, both sides said they wanted the matter settled without a protracted legal fight. But eight...

When Ernest Green began struggling to breathe in his Chatham Park apartment Tuesday evening, his wife called the building's security guard for help. Four minutes later, firefighters were administering oxygen...

In the midst of contentious salary negotiations with their teachers, Chicago Heights School District 170 officials sent a letter to state educators asking for permission to raise salaries for school...

Despite a daylong teachers strike that left thousands of children out of school, union officials and district administrators in Chicago Heights School District 170 dug their heels in Monday, saying...

Jeremiah Mearday, the subject of a highly publicized police-brutality case last year, was arrested Sunday night and charged with possession of marijuana and riding in a stolen car, police said....

Krystle Newquist and her attorney are switching strategies in their fight to force Lemont and National Little League Inc. officials to ban taverns and liquor stores from advertising on team...