James Hill

Cliff Russell had a quarter and a problem. He was a nickel short of making a 30-cent call-an irritation that has confronted uncounted millions of pay phone customers since rates...

Hawthorn School District 73 and Vernon Hills village officials confirmed Wednesday that the developers of the Cuneo Estate are to give the district $2 million toward building a school. The...

A Lake County electoral board hearing committee Friday threw Sylvia Zon off the November ballot as the Democratic candidate for regional superintendent of schools. Zon, a former elementary school principal...

Twenty-three children from Deerpath Junior High School have won parts in the children's chorus of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," now playing in downtown Chicago, it was announced Monday....

In what might be considered a sign of unusually tight times, or simply a nonchalant attitude about bills that don't reach four figures, a group of Lake Forest parents are...

In a request that could dash hopes for a new high school on a former Nike missile battery site, the Federal Aviation Administration is seeking to acquire two-thirds of the...

Negotiators for the North Chicago Unit School District 187 and its teachers union resolved all but one of the remaining issues in their now year-old contract talks during a Tuesday...

He was no James Bond. But police say a Wheeling Township man with a powerful racing motorcycle staged his own action-packed drama Sunday when he led them on a chase...

When the Super Bowl winner loses almost one-fifth of its starting lineup to retirement and free agency, the coach prepares for the worst by talking about a rebuilding year. That...

Batavia Unit School District 101 appeared on the state's Financial Watch List for schools this year, not due to budget problems, administrators said, but because county tax payments arrived late,...