The Illinois Valley Community College Board of Trustees Audit/Finance Committee will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12.

Realigning the boundaries for each school is part of a phased approach the district is taking when it comes to student assignment and enrollment growth.

Oregon High School’s madrigal dinner theme for this year is “The Unfinished Madrigal Dinners”.

Sauk Valley Community College hosted a Rotary Plaza Commemoration on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, bringing together over 75 Rotarians from the seven clubs in Rotary District 6420.

Lewis points to sharp reduction in international students. Workforce reductions follow job cuts confirmed last week at University of St. Francis in Joliet.

Nicor Gas, in partnership with the nonprofit group Operation Warm, distributed winter coats to every student at T.E. Culbertson Elementary School in Joliet on Friday.

The Coal City Unit 1 School Board have approved the annexation of the Coal City Early Childhood Center and the farmland behind the Coal City Unit 1 district office.

Forrestville Valley School Foundation is honored to announce the establishment of the Max Wenzel Educational Scholarship, a monumental gift that will shape the future of its students for generations to come.

Why smash pumpkins? Because it’s fun. Why else smash pumpkins? Because recycling pumpkins into smushed, nutrient-rich compost for soil and gardening prevents build-up in landfills creating more of a trick than a treat for the environment.

The Coal City Unit 1 School District yet again has filed a complaint with the Grundy County Tax Assessor's office over the valuation of GE Hitachi's Morris operation, a one-of-a-kind nuclear waste storage facility.

For one day, two third-grade classrooms from Southeast Elementary School in Sycamore stepped back in time at the historic North Grove School to experience what it was like to learn and play in a one-room schoolhouse in the 1800s.

Thirty-six District 202 middle school musicians and singers have been selected for the 2025 Illinois Music Education Association District 9 Honor Band and Honor Choir.

Sauk Valley Community College has been named one of 200 institutions eligible to compete for a $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, a premier recognition of high achievement and performance among two-year colleges.

This year features recalibrated benchmarks by the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2024-25 school year.

Health occupations students from the Grundy Area Vocational Center made a special stop at Nettle Creek Elementary on Wednesday, running checkups for the kindergarten through third grade students.

Four local students are among University of Wisconsin-Whitewater scholarship recipients receiving financial awards for the 2025-26 academic year.

Joliet Public Schools District 86 hosted a pop-up pumpkin patch for special education students at Sator Sanchez and Lynne Thigpen Elementary Schools on Oct. 23.

The Grundy Area Vocational Center health occupations students traveled to Nettle Creek Elementary on Wednesday morning to make sure the kindergarten through third grade students' stuffed animals were in tip-top shape.

Elias Heabel was named student for November by the Channahon-Minooka Rotary Club.

Like it or not, there are a few gardening chores left before shutting down for the year and starting to plan next year.

Third graders from Sycamore's Southeast Elementary School visited North Grove School in Sycamore, a one-room schoolhouse from the 1800's, Tuesday to learn about what a day in the life of a student was like in the 19th century.

Rock Falls, Dixon, and Sterling high schools all saw their graduation rates increase, according to Illinois State Report Card data

Officials within Minooka Community High School District 111 are in the preliminary stages of considering a safety enhancement that could serve as an added safeguard if a weapons-related emergency situation ever were to arise.

Rochelle resident and co-owner of Institute of Languages, Mathematics, & Sciences, Faten Abdallah, was awarded the 2025 EIGERlab 815 Innovation Award for Education Innovation on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025.

The Leaf River Soaring Eagles celebrated the new 4-H year with a kick-off party at the Lingbeck Farm on Oct. 4.

The donation from the Kiwanis Club of Dixon encourages students to participate in the Impact Program, gain valuable work experience, and graduate without the financial burden of tuition. 

Marvel Zhang, of Sterling, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Joliet Township High School District 204 has announced that a number of its students were honored for their Advanced Placement and National Merit achievements.

There were 26,203 student contacts made through 1,298 programs in Ogle and Carroll counties last year.

The book program features award-winning and popular titles recognized by the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards, including Newbery, Caldecott and Pura Belpré selections.

Grand Ridge Grade School announced its honor roll for the first quarter of the 2025-26 school year.

Oregon High School will present its fall play, “Dystopia! The Hungry Maze Game of Divergent Death” by Don Zolidis on Friday, Nov. 7 and Saturday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. and on Sunday, Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. in the OHS Auditorium.

Byron High School Students of the Month for September were recently named.

The expected cost for Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School’s major facility project is down to about $70.6 million from the previous estimate of $75 million.

Grundy Area Vocational Center (GAVC) students will soon have the opportunity to learn how to fly.

Geneva High School students will see one new course and modifications to six existing courses in the 2026-27 school year, after the school board approves.

Kankakee School District 111 is set to begin developing a five-year strategic plan for the years 2026 through 2031.

Illinois Valley Community College will close both campuses Tuesday, Nov. 11, for Veterans Day.

Ogle County students were among the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater scholarship recipients receiving financial awards for the 2025-26 academic year.

Prospective students can learn about Kankakee Community College during an Explore KCC Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Sessions begin at noon.

Morgan Mandrell and Matthew Valentino have graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee.

Michael Jensen has earned a perfect composite score of 36 on the ACT, achieved by fewer than one quarter of 1% of test takers nationwide, Providence High School said.

Ogle County’s top 4-H members and clubs were honored for outstanding achievement at a special program held Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025 in the Pinecrest Grove Theatre.

The Aspen Institute recently named Kishwaukee College as one of the 200 institutions eligible to compete for the $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the nation’s premier recognition of high achievement and performance among two-year colleges.

While nothing is yet official, some taxpayers could pay less to the Sycamore Community School District 427 on their next property tax bill than they did this year, according to district documents.

The theme of the public forum is “Collaborating for the Future: Our Students, Our Spaces, Our Growth."

Geneva High School has courses that allow students to get credit at community colleges and also the University of Illinois. The school hopes to expand those opportunities.

The Coal City Theatre Department is celebrating spooky season with its Haunted Hallways fundraiser from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29.

Illinois Valley Community College’s Day of the Dead altar is filled with candles, personal treasures, photos and symbols to remember loved ones.

Seven Sauk Valley-area high school students have been chosen as Whiteside Area Career Center students of the month for September.