Marja Mills

Seven months after parents launched a vigorous campaign to ban the controversial ''Impressions'' textbook series from Palatine schools, the Elementary District 15 school board voted unanimously Wednesday night to stand...

Responding to a prosecutor`s pleas for the safety of an unborn child, a Winnebago County judge has ordered a pregnant cocaine addict to be held under guard at a Rockford...

School districts throughout the northwest suburbs are lobbying to extend the temporary state income-tax surcharge that raises more than $300 million a year for education, but perhaps none is campaigning...

A specialist in advanced placement courses and foreign language has beaten out three other finalists to become principal of Hersey High School in Arlington Heights. Donald E. Kersemeier, 50, is...

Seeking to balance enrollment between two of the northwest suburbs` largest schools, the board of High School District 211 voted Monday night to shift the boundaries between Schaumburg High and...

Jan Berge lives in Hoffman Estates, and that`s where he wants his children to go to school-not in Schaumburg. ''Here we go again,'' said the father of two students. ''Kids...

One person was killed and three other were injured Sunday night when two cars collided on the South Side, authorities said. A sometimes heavy rain that reduced visibility and left...

One person was killed and three other people were injured Sunday night in a two-car accident on the South Side, authorities said. In an accident Saturday evening, Democratic Illinois Appellate...

Last August, a judge in Houston ordered the tenants of a 40-unit apartment complex evicted after their landlord failed to keep drug dealers and prostitutes from the premises. Using a...

AT&T has halted a popular service that provided American soldiers in Saudi Arabia with free calls home, the phone company said Thursday. So many soldiers took AT&T up on the...