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Elmhurst Hospital continues long run of A grades in Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades

May 1, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

Elmhurst Hospital officials recently announced that the hospital has again received a grade of A in Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades for Spring, 2024, another A in a streak started when...

Photo: York High School math team members (l-r) Jeffrey Lu, Timothy Flisk, Taylor Melind, Nick Cifelli, and Steven Piotrowski are finalists in an international math challenge. (M3 Challenge)

York High School math team advances to finals in high stakes international math challenge

April 23, 2024 at 10:13 a.m.

For 14 hours in early March, a team of five seniors from York Community High School competed virtually in an international math challenge, up against more than 600 other math...

City officials prepare to break ground for the new memorial plaza. (Graydon Megan)

Elmhurst officials break ground for First Responders Memorial Plaza

April 9, 2024 at 11:45 a.m.

Elmhurst officials gathered recently in front of the city’s Fire Department Station 2 to break ground for the First Responder Memorial Plaza which will feature a commissioned sculpture by artist...

The Elmhurst Park District Canine Corner dog park is going on the site of a long-vacant area at the south end of Old York Road.

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Illinois grant to help Elmhurst Park District open dog park

March 19, 2024 at 12:29 p.m.

Elmhurst Park District officials plan to repurpose a long-closed and vacant trailer park in unincorporated south Elmhurst as Canine Corner, the city’s first community dog park, with help from a...

Sean Gibbons, with his regional spelling bee certificate. (Regina and Ryan Gibbons)

Elmhurst 8th grader wins DuPage regional spelling bee, on way to Scripps nationals

March 12, 2024 at 1:12 p.m.

Sean Gibbons, a 13-year old eighth-grader at Bryan Middle School in Elmhurst, recently won the DuPage Regional Spelling Bee, qualifying to compete in late May against some 200 other spellers...

Curator Sarah Cox, in Rosie headband, demonstrates a hands-on display testing the ability of civilians during wartime to identify potential enemy aircraft. (Graydon Megan)

Elmhurst History Museum’s Victory at Home explores life on home front during World War II

February 27, 2024 at 11:08 a.m.

The Elmhurst History Museum’s new exhibit, “Victory at Home: 1941 – 1945,” will explore the national efforts by ordinary citizens to support the military and the U.S. war effort during...

Area high schoolers who worked as caddies earn full-ride Chick Evans Scholarships

February 21, 2024 at 9:16 a.m.

Asked about golf scholarships to college, many might think of college tuition assistance for talented high school golfers, swinging clubs in contests against other high school players. Fewer would think...

Gone. (L-R) Cameron Knicker, Kyran Casey, Sean Britton, Zayn Jamsheed, Roshan Vitha

Sandburg Middle School Sixth Graders float STEM skills in York HS pool

December 12, 2023 at 9:06 p.m.

It's a cold December night and sixth graders from Sandburg Middle School, most in shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops, are carrying boats into the York High School pool. For a boat...

The Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Capital Development Board have has awarded Elmhurst University a $7.43 million grant to help fund construction of a new health sciences building.

Elmhurst University awarded $7.4 million Illinois state grant for health sciences building

December 5, 2023 at 4:17 p.m.

Elmhurst University officials announced that the Illinois Board of Higher Education, jointly with the Capital Development Board, has awarded the school a $7.43 million grant to help fund construction of...

Elmhurst University officials and Elmhurst Mayor Scott Levin wielded shovels in a ceremonial groundbreaking for the University's planned new health sciences building. From left to right, they are University Board of Trustees members Kent Dahlgren and Wes Becton, board chair Hugh McLean, Diane Salvador, dean of the School of Health Sciences, President Troy VanAken and Levin.

Elmhurst University breaks ground for new health sciences building, the first new building on campus in 15 years

October 17, 2023 at 3:32 p.m.

Elmhurst University officials and Elmhurst Mayor Scott Levin gathered Oct. 12, for a symbolic ground breaking ceremony marking the start of work on the University's planned new 45,000 square foot...

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