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Evergreen Park Police Chief Michael Saunders has issued a statement on the planned protest scheduled for Saturday, May 18 at 1 p.m. The protest is expected to start at 1 p.m. and organizers say they will march down 95th Street from Western Avenue to Cicero Avenue to protest what they see as discriminatory racial practices of the Evergreen Park and ... (more)

Joe Kennedy Jr. began to sense in the spring of 1941 that the war in Europe would eventually involve the United States.

Two dozen Chinese doctorate students from nine universities in midwest United States on Friday received an annual Chinese government award for self-financed students studying abroad.

Cydney Richardson, who is into science and math and wants to go into biomedical engineering, poses at Rich South High School in Richton Park, IL, on Tuesday, March 19, 2012.

An international team of scientists using a new X-ray method recorded the internal structure and cell movement inside a living frog embryo in greater detail than ever before.

A Northwestern University student was rejected for a "diversity and inclusion post" in student government because he is a white, heterosexual male, resulting in a sharp rebuke from the university's student newspaper.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has opened an investigation into Schaumburg, Ill.-based Power Construction Co.

Staying up-to-date has never been simpler. Sign up for the free GenePool newsletter today! Northwestern University scientists have shown a gene involved in neurodegenerative disease also plays a critical role in the proper function of the circadian clock.

This one-night-only event takes place Sunday, May 19 at 6:00pm. Tickets: $350 premium seating & exclusive reception with cast immediately following performance / $150 general reserved seating.

ARKive - a U.K. based charity that aims to create a photographic and video record of life on Earth - has come a long way since its launch in 2003, in part thanks to dedicated volunteers like Winnetka resident Cindy Galvin.

A worker was killed when a beam fell on him at a Northwestern University construction site Thursday morning in north suburban Evanston.

In a study of the common fruit fly, the researchers found the gene, called Ataxin-2, keeps the clock responsible for sleeping and waking on a 24-hour rhythm.

Ray's Take You're blissfully in love and happily engaged to your soul mate. The future looks idyllic.

Most people think of digging when they picture gold mining. That's part of it, but there's more to it than that.

Michael Vasilyev's goals in his research are simply stated: increase by tenfold the amount of information that can be securely transmitted via the Internet and the distance over which that data can be transmitted.

Have you been to the new Starbucks in downtown Evanston? What do you think of the new location? The new Starbucks at 1734 Sherman Ave.

The Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State coordinated sessions, May 13-14, focused on science and engineering diasporas in partnership with Networks of Diasporas in Engineering and Science during the 2013 Global Diaspora Forum in Washington, D.C. Solve for X , an initiative of Google[x], hosted a session on May 13 ... (more)

Scott Emmons has been named dean of the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee . Emmons, a professor of music education, joined the UWM faculty in 1992.

Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography.

Lt. Governor Sheila Simon today encouraged Southern and Central Illinois women to improve medical research and treatment by signing up for the Illinois Women's Health Registry.