1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (536+ words) Chicago Christian Schools has already begun using parts of Trinity Christian College’s former 60-acre campus, after purchasing the Palos Heights property last month. Superintendent Mark Hamstra announced in June Chicago Christian Educational Opportunity LLC, a small group of investors “united…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (750+ words) The Aurora electoral board said it plans to reach a final decision Monday on whether two referendum questions aiming to allow for the recall of a sitting mayor and at-large aldermen can appear on the November ballot in Aurora. County…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (356+ words) “It’s about celebrating youth across Chicagoland that are doing phenomenal things in the community,” Walker-West said. “We have categories celebrating kids for dancing, singing, being scholars, athletes, humanitarians. There’s award events for adults, but we don’t have anything for kids....

2+ day, 24+ min ago   (892+ words) Jessica Rule, 18, entered Illinois State University this school year ready to step into musical theater as a major. Javon Phillips, 18, left his Austin community for Northern Illinois University with his eyes on a future that includes computer science. The pair…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (431+ words) Build a love of reading, one book at a time, with Naperville Public Library’s 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program. This self-paced reading challenge encourages children and their grownups to read 1,000 books together before they start kindergarten. While that may sound like…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (535+ words) The Chicago Board of Education withdrew a proposal Thursday that would have allocated millions of dollars to save the conservatory model at the Chicago Arts High School, capping months of back-and-forth between board members, families and district leaders. The resolution…...

3+ day, 37+ min ago   (801+ words) The Chicago school board is weighing a resolution that would direct Chicago Public Schools to study how it could expand preschool and bilingual early learning opportunities. The proposal would launch a two-year review of the district’s preschool system, including staffing,…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (222+ words) District U-46 held a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday to mark the start of construction on a new elementary school on Elgin’s northeast side. The yet-to-be-named building will be the first elementary school U-46 has built in Elgin in more than 20 years, according…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (264+ words) The Township High School District 113 Board of Education approved the resignation of a teacher charged with domestic battery during a special meeting Wednesday evening. Bridget Fahrner, formerly a world languages teacher with 23 years in the district, according to meeting documents,…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (256+ words) Former Chicago aviation boss Jamie Rhee will serve as the interim executive director of the state’s new governing body for public transit, the board of the nascent Northern Illinois Transit Authority voted during their first meeting today. Rhee oversaw Chicago’s…...