Stephanie Banchero

Of all the things that could come between two 15-year-old boys growing up in this sleepy little town that bills itself as "the glass container capital of the world," no...

A 19-year-old Knox College student from Naperville was killed Sunday, allegedly by another student, on the campus of the small liberal arts school in western Illinois, authorities said. The death...

As Jean Montilla approached the shrine honoring her slain 13-year-old daughter, an eerie calm enveloped Kedvale Playground in West Humboldt Park on Saturday night. Children stopped swinging. Teens stopped dribbling...

In south suburban Cook County, Oak Lawn school officials are wrangling with village trustees over a tax increment financing district that would help pave the way for development of a...

Officials of three southwest suburban Catholic parishes plan to meet next week to begin hammering out details for constructing and operating a regional parochial school in Orland Hills. The meeting,...

For three years, school officials at Crete-Monee District 201-U have labored to close a multimillion-dollar budget deficit. They've eliminated staff positions, curtailed art and music programs, increased class sizes and...

After the bus rolled up to Whitney Young High School's basketball complex Sunday afternoon, 12 lanky young men plodded down the steps, slung their crammed-full sports bags over their slumping...

Will County sheriff's police said Tuesday the shooting death of a Mt. Greenwood man at Sybaris Club Suites in Frankfort Township was likely robbery- or drug-related. John M. Fogleman, 25,...

For the ninth time in seven years, voters in Chaney-Monge School District 88 turned down a plea for more tax money Tuesday. But officials at Lincoln-Way High School District 210...

Voters in Will and southern Cook County on Tuesday faced a dozen referendum proposals seeking approval of construction bonds or property-tax increases in school, library and park districts across the...