Numerous Maercker Elementary District 60 parents let the School Board know how they feel about the elimination of holiday parties Tuesday, and most of those feelings weren't positive.
Clarendon Hills police arrested six people believed to have been involved with numerous burglaries committed in the village, Hinsdale, Oak Brook, Elmhurst and Downers Grove in the past couple of weeks.
Clarendon Hills resident Mary Thomas, mother of Florida International University basketball coach and Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas, is recovering from a heart attack at Adventist Hinsdale Hospital.
Search the 2009 school report cards for all public schools in the state. New this year in the Sun-Times Media report card search: Find out where each elementary, middle and high school ranked in Illinois.
School administrators and teachers seem to agree that the annual state report cards, intended as a measure of how a school is measuring up in terms of educating its students, are based on a single snapshot of how students performed on a single test on a single day.
Jack Higgins knows Mayor Richard Daley's face like the back of his hand. "I could draw him in my sleep," said Higgins, a lifelong Chicagoan who now lives in Clarendon Hills with wife, Missy, and five children, Tommy, Brigid, Rose, Jackie and Brendan.
SchoolSearch presented its Bright A+ Awards for academic excellence. The following local schools are among the top 5 percent of all Illinois school districts.
It's been 200 years since Jane Austen penned her first novel, Elinor and Marianne , the story of two very different sisters that would become the classic story, Sense and Sensibility .