Tricia Fugelstad spent more than 30 years at Dryden Elementary School in Arlington Heights, as an award winning art teacher known for integrating technology into her art lessons. She has been recognized by the National Art Education Association, the Illinois Art...

Aditya Gupta of Rolling Meadows is an Illinois Junior Chess Champion and a Chess National Master. Just this year, he was one of five students chosen nationally to receive the Chess Scholar Award from the U.S. Chess Federation. Yet, it's not the awards that are driving...

Coming from the city of Kalush, in western Ukraine, Vitalii Strutynskyi and his family fled to the Czech Republic first, where they assembled documents to come to this country. When he arrived at Saint Viator last year, he says his biggest barrier was the language....

Three Catholic parishes in Arlington Heights are collaborating to host a 5K/1-Mile Fun Run/Walk on Saturday to benefit the St. Vincent de Paul Society and outreach ministry at each of the churches. Our Lady of the Wayside, St. James and St. Edna's  -- whose combined...

Mary Lenz Wieman is being remembered today, 22 years after she died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11. The Arlington Heights native, who attended Our Lady of the Wayside School, Sacred Heart of Mary High School in Rolling Meadows and the...

More than 100 members of Hersey's class of 1973 descended on the school last month and their thoughts turned to a simpler time. When they began as freshmen the school had been open only one year and much of the neighborhoods surrounding it was still farmland. For...

Kerri Largo teaches a business incubator class at Hoffman Estates High School and she also serves as chair of the business education department. Yet, even she admits she didn't know what an NFT was until two years ago when she learned about them from her students....

Arlington Heights Police Chief Nick Pecora knew he wanted to pursue a career in law enforcement as far back as his days at Rolling Meadows High School, but the closest he could experience it was after graduation. In 1982, at the age of 19, he was hired as a public...

A violin left behind by a 19-year old girl in a boxcar transporting Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz, came to life Sunday during a sold-out presentation of Violins of Hope, at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. Patrons heard the story about the violin once owned by...

Isabel Pollpeter and her twin sister, Abby, already hold the distinction of being among the first female members of Boy Scout Troop 209G in Palatine, and now they were among the first three to complete their Eagle Scout projects. In Isabel's case, she led some of her...