The coffee shop will operate as a training site for Valley View School District STEP students, giving them hands-on experience in customer service and business operations.

The Sycamore Community School District 427 administrator tasked with filling in for former superintendent Steve Wilder will retain that role through the school year, the district announced Wednesday.

A public-access outdoor fitness court by Kankakee High School is anticipated to be complete by early November.

The floor will need to be fully replaced, a project that is expected to be completed by November. The flooding occurred as a result of severe storms that moved through the area.

Two people spoke during the Polo School Board's public comment period Aug. 20, 2025.

After winning $200,000 on an Illinois Lottery scratch-off ticket from a Jewel-Osco in Oswego, Clarence Neuenkirchen, a grandfather from Montgomery, couldn’t wait to tell his wife.

Out of more than 100 applications, only 30 chapters nationwide were chosen for this unique opportunity, according to an L-P news release.

As the search for a new superintendent at Dixon Public Schools kicks off, a search consultant is asking the school board to reconsider its residency requirement in an effort to attract more candidates.

The Kishwaukee College Foundation recently announced student scholarship recipients for the Fall 2025 semester. The Foundation awarded 296 scholarships totaling $218,866.

Four Rivers Educational Center in Channahon will host two upcoming programs for students who are homeschooled.

A new school year is underway at Geneva District 304. What's new in the district?

Morris Community High School has been recognized by US News and World Report as the 6,481st best school out of 17,901 in the US and number 222 out of 715 in Illinois.

The Dixon School Board on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, approved new hires, resignations and coaching positions.

For decades, Sterling teacher Fern Shore donated what she could to Hope for Haitians to build homes there. The organization said Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, that Shore, prior to her death at 101 last fall, bequeathed $220,000 in McDonald's stock to the organization.

The “memorandum of understanding” creates access and opportunity for high school students across the Diocese of Joliet to enroll at USF in Joliet, according to a release announcing the agreement.

Illinois Valley Community College officially broke ground Friday on their $7.6 million Dr. Alfred E. Wisgoski Agricultural Education Center.

Jonathon Hodges of Byron made the dean's list at Missouri State University. Hodges was among more than 1,200 students named to the summer 2025 dean’s list.

Robert Schiffbauer, the superintendent of Minooka Community High School, shares information on the school district as students return to the building

Lockport Township High School District 205 appointed four new student members to its school board to serve for the 2025-26 school year.

Churchill Ogbegun, a third-grader from Boulder Hill Elementary School, was selected for a 10-year math scholarship valued at more than $100,000 in academic support.

Illinois will allow health care professionals to prescribe certain medications over the next decade even if the federal government revokes approval for a drug under House Bill 3637

Oswego East was selected in the first week of the T-Mobile Friday Night 5G Lights contest to receive the grant. Each week, 50 schools are randomly selected to receive the grant, for a total of 450 winners.

A total of 148 students earned 169 degrees and certificates this summer at Illinois Valley Community College.

Troy Community Consolidated School District 30-C has hired three new administrators for the 2025-2026 school year, including a new principal for Troy Cronin Elementary School.

The award honors individuals committed to the success of public education and the mission of the Illinois Education Association.

Summer came to an unofficial end for many Sycamore children and parents in School District 427 Thursday, alongside some advice: "Just try and introduce yourself to a lot of kids, and maybe you’ll make a new friend that you don’t know,” fourth grader Parker Wenz said.

Minooka Community High School was recognized on three lists released by US News and World Report’s 2025-26 Best High Schools rankings.

Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School has been named one of the best high schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

Both Democrats and Republicans have taken up the cause, reflecting a growing consensus that phones are bad for kids’ mental health and take their focus away from learning, even as some researchers say the issue is less clear-cut

The Illinois Valley Community College Board of Trustees hired a building contractor for the College’s new agricultural education center on Tuesday, according to an IVCC news release.

The Morris Community High School gym has been sitting at a cool 72 degrees this summer, thanks to the new air handling system that’s been installed.

Kankakee School District 111 staff were welcomed back for the 2025-26 school year Monday in anticipation of the first day of school.

Now that Sycamore Community School District 427 has hired a national firm to search for the district’s next superintendent, here’s what the community should expect to happen.

Applications are due Aug. 25 for those interested in filling a vacancy on the seven-member BBCHS District 307 School Board.

DeKalb School District 428 Superintendent Minerva Garcia-Sanchez announced Tuesday that she does not intend to seek renewal of her contract when it expires in June 2026.

The energetic cadence of a drumline and the cheers of cheerleaders greeted the second through fourth graders arriving for their first day of school at Herscher Intermediate School on Tuesday morning.

Minooka Community High School is hosting two induction events for the Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2025.

Cary School District 26 is looking at adding solar panels to the roofs of three schools as time dwindles on financial incentives that will end with the passing of Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill.”

Dixon resident Owen McBride recently was named to Mount Mercy University’s dean’s list for the spring 2025 semester.

Future culinary professionals at both Joliet Township High Schools are equipped with state-of-the-art workspaces after School District 204 completed renovations this year for new cooking classrooms.

Teachers will share instructions and assignments through Google Classroom and attendance will be taken at each class.

The Grundy Economic Development Council shared an economic snapshot with the Grundy County Board on Tuesday, discussing the county's 8.1% growth from 2010 to 2024, making it the sixth fastest growing county in Illinois.

For the first time ever in the FORE! Yorkville Golf Outing event fundraiser for the Yorkville Educational Foundation and the Yorkville Parks and Recreation Department, someone hit the big hole-in-one sweepstakes. The golfer wasn't the event's only winner, more than $12K raised.

Just because a school day is over doesn't mean students aren't alone after the dismissal bell rings. Sterling Township has a place where local students in middle school and high school can gather for fun and frolic with new friends.

Illinois Valley Community College Professor Matthew Johll’s students learn how science can make an impact far beyond the classroom, reaching courtrooms across the U.S. and the U.K., according to an IVCC news release.

Illinois Community College’s Continuing Education Center offers training to become a real estate broker or a home inspector through two courses.

Lockport Township High School's Central campus ready to welcome new freshmen on Monday after a summer of work to improve the building's "structural integrity."

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Former Sycamore District 427 school board member Eric Jones expressed disappointment with ex-Superintendent Steve Wilder's departure, saying he believes Wilder was shown a “lack of respect."

Kankakee Community College Athletics is planning a fall golf outing for former athletes and community members.