As a young conservative at DePaul University, Nicholas Hahn III says he's often offended by the liberal messages he hears on campus, but he says he doesn't complain because college is all about the free exchange of ideas.
Because "they were bored," five boys caused $80,000 worth of damage at Southwood Middle School, Country Club Hills Police said Thursday.
A new audit of Chicago State University found "significant deficiencies,'' including millions of dollars in improper no-bid contracts, an employee who was wrongly awarded a $250,000 contract and thousands of dollars in charges to a university credit card that weren't backed up with receipts.
Daniel Silva calls "amazing" his first year as an elementary school teacher on the Near West Side. Not too long ago, he was far from the front of the classroom, mopping up floors and cleaning toilets as a Chicago Public Schools janitor.
A top official at Chicago State University admits a state audit to be released today reveals "embarrassing'' mistakes that reflect "ignorance'' of rules and "wrong'' actions taken by school staff.
Nine-year-old Nathan Viola's talent for doodling is getting noticed. The third-grader from Mokena is one of 40 regional winners in a national Doodle 4 Google contest that asked kids to submit their own Google logo and write a short essay.
The University of Chicago has bought Harper Court shopping center at 5211 S. Harper for $6.5 million and intends to find a developer to tear it down and rebuild the property as a destination retail corridor.
The president of Northwestern University said he is “honored, thrilled and ecstatic’’ that a new music school will be named after him and his wife.
"A huge sign of progress" is how Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan described new figures that show a 6½ percent increase in college enrollment of CPS graduates during the last four years, far outpacing the national rate for that period.
CARBONDALE, Ill.---- The director of the Coal Research Center at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale will have better access to the Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman's ear.
At 6-foot-6 and 275 muscular pounds, Chicago Bears defensive tackle Israel Idonije was a striking contrast to gunshot victim Richard "Tre" Winfrey. Both men were center stage in the East Aurora High School auditorium for a fundraiser for Winfrey's ongoing medical needs. Idonije raffled off autographed sports memorabilia, signed by numerous Chicago Bears players including superstar kick returner Devin Hester.
Despite a school year marred by death, the earth around Crane Technical Prep is bursting with new life. And rookie teacher Cody Thompson and the garden club he started can't wait to survey it. At the farthest reaches of Crane's campus, the group examines the strongest survivors of 1,500 red and white tulip bulbs they planted last fall.
COUNTRY CLUB HILLS -- A Country Club Hills middle school was vandalized over the weekend with most of the damage done to the school’s classrooms.
A 40-foot tour bus sponsored by Trojan condoms is set to, um, roll into town Wednesday as part of a nationwide campaign that will reach 60 college campuses.
When Lauren Thorbjornsen was to earn her degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois last year, there was one problem: her father, Chuck, an Army reservist, was stationed in Kuwait and couldn't attend the ceremony.
Chicago Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault at a South Side elementary school this week.
With bone-chilling winds wreaking havoc with house-size sails and rambunctious waves toppling folks on deck, it wasn't a good day to let two waifish girls pilot the tall ship Windy. So for only 15 minutes of a 90-minute excursion from Navy Pier on Thursday, 16-year-old Christie Aeyueng and 17-year-old Aderounke Adekoun had full control of Windy's huge bronze helm.
Operation Twinkie is very hush-hush. Information on the sweet tooths of soldiers is shared strictly on a need-to-know basis. When 11-year-old Glennita Williams e-mailed her best friend's dad in Iraq as to what he needed, she was let in on a military secret.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.---- The head of Northern Illinois University said the school has a $7.7 million plan to remodel the lecture hall where five people were slain by a suicidal gunman on Valentine's Day.
FLOSSMOOR -- Classes are scheduled to meet Friday at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor despite the discovery of a bullet and note threatening a shooting.
Sometimes on a hot summer day Donnell White would drive up to his elementary school alma mater and cry. The veteran mail handler was distraught because he had yet to pursue his lifelong dream to teach in his native Austin neighborhood, where he admittedly had been more of a class clown than a straight-A scholar.
Chicago State University officials say they've named an interim president.
WAUKEGAN---- Police say a Waukegan schoolteacher is facing drug charges after she allegedly was caught smoking marijuana in the teachers' lounge at her school.
San Diego State University has suspended six fraternities after a sweeping drug investigation that landed members of three fraternities in jail on suspicion of openly dealing drugs on campus.
Leave it to Chicago’s music teacher extraordinaire Brooke Thompson. On the day she won the Oscar for teaching — the Golden Apple Award — Thompson was worried about how the shows at Peirce School of International Studies, 1423 W. Bryn Mawr, would go on without her during her semester-long paid sabbatical.
EVANSTON -- Beth Combs, who compiled a 24-95 record over four seasons as Northwestern University women's basketball coach, has resigned, the school announced Wednesday.
Marist band classes have been suspended and the program's director, Rocco Carioto, was escorted from the Southwest Side Catholic high school Monday afternoon.
Gov. Blagojevich is proposing a $150 million anti-violence initiative that would provide new state dollars for more teen jobs, after-school programs and community grants in high-crime areas.
Karnell Black faced a difficult decision his senior year at a Dallas high school: He liked his job as a law firm file clerk and was making decent money -- $10 an hour. His family wasn't pushing him to go college, which he knew would be expensive. Should he apply, take out loans to attend, and then try to succeed in college when no one else in his family had gone?
Catholic schools need to find new sources of funding and break out test results from individual schools if they are to reverse a long-term trend of declining enrollment, a new national study finds.
If you want to see a bunch of parents breaking the law and putting kids at risk, just wander over to Dieterich Elementary School in Aurora around 2:30 p.m. any weekday.
Jerry's in, but Jeremiah's out. Northwestern University, which plans to have alum Jerry Springer give its law school commencement address, yanked its offer to award an honorary doctoral degree to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the school's main graduation ceremony next month.
In what some hailed as "a victory" for kids who are still learning English, a federal judge Thursday ordered 100 principals to answer written questions about what kind of services they are providing to hundreds of Chicago public school students in bilingual education programs.
Before she started studying Arabic, Brittany Whitfield's opinion of the Arab world was shaped by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the 10 o'clock news.
Northwestern University has withdrawn its offer of an honorary degree to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright “in light of the controversy around” Barack Obama’s former pastor. The school on Thursday also said Wright’s assertion that the invitation was revoked after Northwestern’s president told him he “wasn’t patriotic” is not accurate.
A school bus driver for Consolidated School District 158 was charged with reckless conduct and child endangerment after injuring several students Wednesday morning on a ride to Leggee Elementary School in Huntley.
Northern Illinois University won't demolish the building where a gunman killed five students because of overwhelming opposition to the plan, the school's president said Tuesday.
Cathy and Richard Bedard worried that something was wrong on the bus that took two of their three special-needs children to school.
The life of a Catholic schoolteacher known as the "big brother" of his Englewood block ended in violence after he was fatally shot on the South Side.
The dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism told a meeting of alumni and students that he made a mistake when he quoted an anonymous student in a story he wrote for the alumni magazine.
Astronaut Dan Tani carried a medal from the Comets of Sts. Cyril and Methodius School in Lemont on his trip to the international space station. On Monday, the former Lombard resident returned the medal that travelled about 7 million miles.
"Frustrated and angry'' about the opportunities Gov. Blagojevich has "squandered,'' former Chicago Schools CEO Paul Vallas said Monday he would be "open to running again'' for governor.
WESTERN SPRINGS -- A threatening message found in a washroom at a west suburban high school has prompted a lockdown on Tuesday morning.
DEKALB -- The president of Northern Illinois University has dropped the idea of tearing down the building where five students were killed in February.
After 30 years of marriage and 20 years of teaching, Kent Gramm is getting divorced and losing his job at the same time. But Gramm is not surprised. He knew when divorce proceedings started that unemployment was a possibility. Gramm, a professor of English at Wheaton College, and his wife are in the midst of a split, and because he refuses to discuss the cause of the divorce with college officials, he is resigning.
Alumni of Chicago Public Schools won't have to wait by the punch bowl at class reunions to find their high school sweethearts. They are only a click away from communicating with old flames and old friends.
The number of low-income students at the area's top universities continues to shrink.
Fourteen-year-old Myles Gage's goal in life is to obtain a degree from Stanford University, part of his plan to pursue a rewarding career as an investment banker. A $5,000 scholarship he received as the winner of last week's Money Smart Week essay contest will help him achieve that goal, the Ariel Community Academy student told the Chicago Sun-Times.
For this class, the greasier the french fries, the better. That's because students in Loyola University's "Solutions to Environmental Problems'' course need the old cooking oil used to make fries to make biodiesel fuel -- a cleaner-burning fuel made from a renewable resource.
Illinois' Bright Start Savings, a state program helping families put away funds for children's college tuition, just got a little brighter. State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias will announce today $3.5 million in private scholarship funds, to be distributed among three dozen universities throughout the state over the next seven years.
Even on the eve of the national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, the Shepard High School science club couldn't leave well enough alone. The 12-member team had logged more than 1,000 hours creating an amusement park-themed machine that could put together a cheeseburger in less than two minutes. Still, the team worked until midnight, tinkering with the equipment and adding steps.
Latin School will be able to continue construction on new soccer fields at Lincoln Park, a judge ruled Friday.
Police and Waukegan High School officials are investigating alleged smoking of marijuana by a teacher during school hours Tuesday.
A senior prank at Zion-Benton Township High School seemed quite humorous at first. But as a group of students quickly learned, the administration isn't amused with monkey business.
Some jaws dropped when posh $45 million Northside College Prep opened in 1999 with a sweeping two-story view of the city's skyline, a patio overlooking the tree-studded North Shore Channel, a lunchroom with a solarium roof and a conservatory.
Chris Santoyo began his freshman year at Eisenhower High at the bottom of the academic heap. He and 99 other freshman were assigned to participate in an experiment adopted by the Blue Island high school this year: single-sex classes. And his outlook has changed.
All six Dolton School District 149 elementary schools were closed Thursday after a threat was discovered on a boys' bathroom wall.
Chicago Public Schools have received bomb threats over the last two years -- yet none was closed.
All six schools in the south suburban Dolton District 149 are closed today because of a threat scrawled on a bathroom wall, authorities say.
Fear rippled through the South Side and south suburbs this week as violent threats prompted officials from seven schools to call off classes. But an eighth school resisted.
When Alexi Giannoulias took office as Illinois treasurer last year, he wasn't satisfied with the way the state's Bright Start program was operating. Bright Start is the state program that allows residents to make regular deposits into a tax-free account for their children's college education.
A 17-year-old Chicago Public Schools student was killed during a dice game on the West Side on Tuesday night.
