V. Dion Haynes

Barrington High School has been recognized in recent years for its sensitive approach to sex education, particularly praised for its student-written and -produced play about AIDS, "Connections," performed both inside...

Forty years ago, when small towns ringing Chicago were first beginning to grow, farmers markets were a natural part of the landscape. Bringing in fresh fruits and vegetables on what...

For Barrington Unit School District 220, the road to education innovation may lead back to the future. In a plan that hearkens back to the days of the one-room schoolhouse,...

School officials in Wonder Lake could decide Tuesday night whether to fire Charles Deany, the embattled elementary school superintendent accused of trying to solicit sex from a 10-year-old girl. The...

In an effort to steer youngsters away from street gangs, a group of Unit School District 46 parents is sponsoring a gang awareness forum Thursday night. Because gang-recruitment efforts are...

As a fire chief, Dick Cordova spent three decades battling infernos, freeing victims from the twisted remains of automobiles and coping with the pain of discovering children who perished in...

A Virginia Lake School pupil is recovering from bacterial meningitis, a sometimes deadly infectious disease that has stricken at least three other young suburban residents within the last month. The...

Maine West High School student Andy White decided three years ago to try something that would set him apart from his peers. It was his freshman year at the Des...

In the 1930s, the old Curtiss-Reynolds Airport was isolated in the farmland of Glenview. At the time, it made perfect sense to convert the land into a military base, training...

Huddling together by their battered Volvo, the trio of Deadheads had just arrived at the Rosemont Horizon Tuesday for three days worth of Grateful Dead concerts. They had just two...