Barbara Dargis

Larry Bergnach was giving a presentation about Riverview Park, the old Chicago amusement destination that closed in the 1960s, when an elderly man in the audience chimed in with his...

As the growing season comes to a close, managers of community gardens in two south suburbs are pleased with the pickings. Dolly Foster, a horticulturist for the Oak Lawn Park...

Corlin Leonard’s scholastic input this year will go beyond his classrooms at Victor J. Andrew High School as he also concentrates on issues that concern schools throughout Illinois. Leonard, a...

Sister Cindy Drozd acknowledged a bit of a competitive spirit has her walking daily in an effort to place among the first 100 finishers in the upcoming Run with the...

Ask 17-year-old Sydney Nekola to recall a memorable experience from Summer Seminar at the United States Naval Academy and she is likely to describe the vigorous physical exercises or rigorous...

The advice for players in an upcoming ball tournament is simple: Keep your ear on the ball. Still, teams of players with visual impairments have been training since early spring...

When six Lincoln-Way High School District 210 bus drivers retired at the end of May, they took with them more than 100 years of experience, district transportation director Mike Leone...

Some area students showed off their South Side Irish heritage in Scotland recently as their Irish dance team took first place at a world championship competition in Glasgow. "We work...

After Donna DeSoto put out a call for art centered on a theme of the nation's most beautiful places a throng of quilters from across the country and as far...

Adrienne Valentino, a graduate of Moraine Valley Community College, was not a member of the school's flute choir as a student. But she is now, having joined the group two...