The community college   and the American dream

On a quiet Friday morning at Elgin Community College, Jerry Sanders of Carpentersville was practicing starting an IV. Sanders, a nursing student, tied a blue band around the rubber arm on a table in one of the nursing classrooms in the community college’s new Health …Read More

• Think winter is done for the season? Think again

  The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch in the Chicago area for Thursday night into early Friday. A developing storm system is expected to move into northern Illinois Thursday evening, first bringing rain that will quickly turn into wet snow that “may …Read More

• Kane County politics: nitty, gritty, downright dirty
• Gov. Pat Quinn on pension mess: ‘Everything is on the table’
• State waives No Child Left Behind standards
• Attempted-murder charges from Elgin double-stabbing
• Kane begins its pitch for entertainment venue along Fabyan