Cops honor late police commissioner
More than 20 members of the Buffalo Grove Police Department are growing mustaches to raise awareness about prostate cancer and other men's health issues in honor of a police commissioner...
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School nurse recognized for aiding bus driver
Tricia Prebil, a school nurse in Community Consolidated District 15 who saw that a bus driver was having an allergic reaction to a bee sting and administered an EpiPen injection,...
Book program encourages reading
When a costumed mouse riding a motorcycle pulled up at Kimball Hill School in Rolling Meadows, the secret was up on this year's "One School, One Book" program. Beverly Cleary's...
$1.73 million state grant boosts Buffalo Grove parks’ art programs
The Buffalo Grove Park District will be able to offer additional art classes and more parking spaces as a result of a grant that will help fund a $3.1 million...
Hispanic pride on display at Buffalo Grove High School
Enough interest was displayed at a recent event to promote diversity and celebrate the Hispanic population of Buffalo Grove High School that organizers of Orgullo Bison, or Bison Pride, are...
Musical theater to boost special ed students
Students with special needs in Community Consolidated School District 15 and District 211 soon will be participating in a theater program that is both entertaining and therapeutic. Special Gifts Theatre...
Entrepreneurship taught in high school
The new Entrepreneurship class at Wheeling High School and Elk Grove High School operates more like a corporate think tank than a typical classroom. It's run as a business incubator...
Parks ballot measure gets boost from ‘Friends’
A group of citizens have been putting up yard signs and holding public information meetings to encourage residents to support a Nov. 4 bond referendum measure for the Butterfield Park...
Grants expand literacy efforts in District 15
Kindergartners needing extra help in Community Consolidated School District 15 are getting new books in their classroom libraries, and Latino families had a new location for a program to help...
Bash celebrates diversity in Wheeling
A back-to-school bash that honors children and celebrates diversity prompted Erin DeLuga, mother of a daughter with Down syndrome, to proclaim: "Wheeling, you should be so proud of yourselves today."...