Jeffrey Bils

Mike McCollum, executive director of two large education service organizations in southwestern Illinois, will take the helm as executive director of the new DuPage Intermediate Educational Cooperative on July 17....

The irony of Irv Lewandowski's death last November probably did not go unnoticed by his two close friends, Jack Rodgers and Robert Knoll. The three of them loved airplanes so...

Community leaders in Wheaton and Rolling Meadows responded with dismay Wednesday to news that the Ku Klux Klan is planning rallies in their cities next month. "I am appalled. I'm...

An Oak Lawn man died early Saturday after he was shot at least five times near Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, police said. The Cook County medical examiner's...

oters like school tax hikes as much as students like a pop quiz. So it may come as a surprise that in the collar counties, the odds seem to be...

The grim reaper came for Tiffany Rosko during English class Wednesday, but the Burr Ridge Middle School 8th grader just laughed it off. After all, death has its advantages. "It's...

Michael Jordan may be too tall for baseball, too competitive to stay at home and too confident in his fairway wagering, but he is still a basketball god. On Saturday,...

Even in Southern California it can be raw and cold just before dawn, when Eva Lopez and her friends begin forming outside the schoolhouse gate, waiting for the day's first...

Kid clutter dominates the landscape of Tammy and Mark's suburban home, and all the art projects and toys say this is a place where children are the focus. But this...

Hours after Saleh Mohamed's father, five brothers and sister were killed before dawn Saturday in a Burbank house fire, he sat nervously at a hospital, waiting for his wife to...