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Although the teachers' strikes in Chicago and Lake Forest have been resolved, negotiations are at a critical point in several other Chicago-area districts, including North Shore School District 112 in Highland Park.
Teachers in a third local school district could go on strike next month, joining their counterparts in Chicago and Lake Forest in staging a walkout amid stalled contract talks.
Teachers at Lake Forest High School remain on strike this Friday morning, and classes are again cancelled.
A Highland Park teenager was charged Wednesday with reckless homicide after she struck and killed a five-year-old girl.
The young woman accused of running over and killing a 5-year-old girl in Highland Park on Labor Day, after allegedly huffing computer cleaning spray, has been released on $50,000 bond.
While the mayor of Highland Park has expressed frustration with the Lake County State's Attorney's Office's handling of the fatal crash that caused the death of a 5-year-old girl, authorities continue to investigate the accident, David Schwarz, the city's deputy police chief, said Thursday.
Police have cited an 18-year-old woman with the offense of driving while intoxicated in connection with a Labor Day accident in Highland Park that killed a 5-year-old girl.
There is no word of any charges yet in a horrifying accident that killed a 5-year-old girl in Highland Park Monday afternoon.
The city of Highland Park has a warning for its homeowners: you can't just lop off the tops of trees -- even if they're on your property.
A Highland Park couple faces the fines and possible jail time for allegedly neglecting cats living their garage.
A state appeals court has ordered that DNA evidence from a 1997 murder trial in Lake County be tested for the first time.
Because of the hot weather and dry conditions, several suburbs have implemented water restrictions.
Two adults and two children were rescued Sunday afternoon by a U.S. Coast Guard boat crew after the sailing vessel they were aboard capsized, sending all four into the water, near north suburban Fort Sheridan.
Nearly four months after suffering a stroke, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) has been released from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and is now back at his Highland Park home.
Bond was set at $750,000 Tuesday for two teenage boys accused in the brutal sexual assault of an 18-year-old girl near the Congress Theater in the Logan Square neighborhood on New Year's Eve.
A missing 12-year old north suburban boy has been found safe in Chicago.
Michael Jordan's Highland Park mansion is up for sale for $29 million.
A rally against violence was held in Chicago Monday night, near the scene where a teenage girl from Highland Park was sexually assaulted and left unconscious on New Year's Eve.
A gallon of gas was a huge bargain in north suburban Highland Park on Thursday, but the bargain didn't last for long.
The FBI is on the hunt for a bank robber dubbed the "Stick Figure Bandit."
A bank branch in downtown Highland Park was robbed on Thursday morning, the second bank heist in the area in the past three weeks.
The recently-retired CEO of a truck trailer manufacturing business is being hailed as a hero for guiding his plane away from a subdivision as it crashed near Racine, claiming his life.
The mayor of north suburban Highwood has been charged with driving drunk, after being pulled over in neighboring Highland Park.
Authorities have released photos of a suspected bank robber, who robbed a Chase Bank branch in Highland Park on Thursday.
A semi-truck driver is dead, and another is hospitalized, in a multi-vehicle pileup that snarled traffic in Highland Park as late as Thursday morning.
