Westchester News

When he hired Itzhak Perlman as artistic director of the Westchester Philharmonic in 2007, Joshua Worby thought he'd hit a grand slam.

Cook County prosecutors plan to file suit against the county's Regional Office of Education and possibly seek removal of its scandalized superintendent, officials said Thursday.

Investigators in Illinois have raided the home and office of the Cook County regional schools superintendent in an audit inquiry, officials said.

Investigators from Cook County state's attorney's office this morning raided the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education in Westchester in connection with an ongoing investigation into Supt.

Carol Parisi of Westchester, Calif., holds a piece of pottery from Curt Buethe's Urimusic Pottery.

As pressure mounts on one of Cook County's top school officials, Regional Supt. Charles Flowers is nowhere to be found.

Cherokee South Plaza, located here, will break ground this July on a large-scale redevelopment.

GALENA, Ill. -- Midwest Medical Center is exploring a sale of the hospital and its assets to Westchester, Ill.-based Regent Surgical Health.

The Healthcare Financial Management Association this fall will release a detailed report on best practices for implementing efficient revenue cycle management that provides timely, useful information to patients.

No one matched all six numbers in Tuesday night's $46 million Mega Millions drawing, but one west suburban player came pretty close.

WESTCHESTER, Ill. ?Naps with rapid eye movement sleep refresh the brain's empathetic sensitivity for evaluating human emotions by decreasing a negative bias and amplifying recognition of positive emotions, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Wednesday, June 10, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated ...

Athletes who extended their nightly sleep and reduced accumulated sleep debt reported improvements in various drills conducted after every regular practice, researchers say.

The state's top auditor called for a criminal probe of the suburban Cook County regional education office after an audit found that the director repeatedly used a government credit card for personal expenses and approved questionable payments to relatives on his payroll.

WESTCHESTER, Ill. ?A bidirectional association exists between couples' sleep quality and the quality of their relationship, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Wednesday, June 10, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

WESTCHESTER, Ill. - According to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday, June 8 at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, in the presence of free access to food, sleep restricted subjects reported decrease in appetite, food cravings and food consumption; however, they gained weight over the ...

The Dunkin" Donuts on Roosevelt Road in Broadview was crawling with police Friday morning.

I always have trouble hiding my disdain for South Loopers who suddenly decide to move to the suburbs.

Brenda Hobson, 65, of Westchester wants to make sure people her age and older are able to get the help they need from the state to live productively.

Westchester Gardens, is a group of people interested in gardening and beautifying the Westchester community, who, among other things, plant and maintain the Welcome Garden at the corner of 22nd Street and Mannheim Road and also the gardens at the Westchester Public Library, 10700 Canterbury.

Urbana attorney John E. Thies is on track to become the second generation member of his family to serve as president of the Illinois Bar Association.