Jamie Francisco

Threatening to eliminate sports and music programs while bombarding voters with information apparently paid off for a Carpentersville-based school district where a property-tax increase and a bond issue to build...

Most Illinois school districts are prepared to give achievement tests to 3rd through 8th graders next week, despite a furor over delays in getting testing materials to some districts. State...

About a dozen sophomores at South Elgin High School spent two weeks working on storytelling skills--practicing their inflections and facial expressions. Then last week they donned tall, floppy hats and...

As they prepared Sunday for the season of Lent, area Catholics rebuffed a call by an advocacy group for Cardinal Francis George to resign in the wake of reports that...

Bail was set at $2 million Tuesday for an Elgin man charged in the death of his estranged wife, whom he ran over with his sport-utility vehicle last weekend in...

Five years ago, Chicago's Mexican immigrant community mobilized to save Ana Esparza's life after hospitals refused to replace her failing liver because Medicaid doesn't cover organ transplants for undocumented immigrants....

Waving hand-painted signs and chanting words of encouragement, more than 100 Catholics rallied in support of Cardinal Francis George on Sunday, hours after many local pastors read a letter in...

Amy Pfeiler has been the family chauffeur for a long time, driving her kids to everything from sports practices and voice lessons to after-school jobs. But with her youngest child...

Financially struggling school districts throughout the northwest suburbs are asking voters to approve property tax increases to maintain education programs and build new schools. Other issues on the March 21...

Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck could not attend, but the sounds of Radio Disney filled Oakhill Elementary School in Streamwood during a special assembly last week. On a whim, 4th...