Stephanie Banchero

Officials at Tinley Park School District 146 are putting together a game plan to win voter support for a bond issue to build a new middle school. School officials plan...

Mokena buried two of its teenagers last week, and the community grieved. The town's residents grieved over the loss of two young lives and they grieved that those lives were...

As friends and family tried Tuesday to make sense of the apparent suicides of two Mokena teenagers, officials at three local schools dispatched counselors for grieving students. "Our junior high...

At times, the two Mokena teenagers had talked casually about suicide.. Friends say Jeff Niemiec once asked a friend if there was a way to die a "silent death." Shaun...

More than half a dozen people were killed during a violent weekend in Chicago and, by Sunday night, police had yet to make any arrests in the unrelated cases. At...

A picture is worth a thousand words--and sometimes it's worth even more. A man who was about to be questioned by police in connection with a slaying was riding in...

The Chicago Heights Police Department will hold its annual community dinner Saturday, hoping to raise thousands of dollars for needy children and cash-strapped area schools and programs. In the last...

Officials at Moraine Valley Community College have reconsidered deannexing from Palos Hills after determining such a move would be more costly than simply paying the new utility tax they had...

Eighteen months ago, when Becky Deutschman and Debbie Klimek initiated the fight to send their children to Lincoln-Way High School instead of Joliet Central, they needed only to prove that...

Residents in southwest suburban Consolidated High School District 230 are not monolithic in their opinions about dealing with growth and aging schools, but they seem nearly unanimous on how not...