Anne Little

As the Baby Boomers gained maturity and the anti-establishment attitudes of the 1960s and '70s dissipated during the last two decades, many educators have observed a void in the teaching...

On this date, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted headed west from Chicago, where he had arrived by train from New York, to a spot about 10 miles from the city....

They`re the cream of the crop, the top of the class. Young, energetic, scholarly-and surprisingly altruistic. They`re the 70 or so Barrington High School juniors and seniors who make it...

In summer the branches of stately elm and oak trees form leafy arches high above Hinsdale`s residential streets. Mottled lawns spread before grand estates on the east side of town...

Back in the early 1970s, Oak Park apprehensively faced the prospect of change. The predominantly white community was experiencing an influx of blacks from Chicago`s South Austin neighborhood, bordering the...

Parental nurturing of a gifted child is ''like holding a bird. You can`t squeeze it too tightly. You must let it fly and expose it to many different areas and...

Dan Kostel sat quietly at his mother`s kitchen table sipping an after-school glass of lemonade. Talking about himself was something the shy 12-year-old Darien boy obviously didn`t relish, but he...

You don`t necessarily have to be a pedigreed socialite or celebrity or a descendant of the Dunn & Bradstreet crowd to live in one of the marble, granite or stone...