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Mike Sullivan hasn’t been traveling to his office in the Loop for a few weeks now, but he’s been busier than ever. “I have been crazed all day and am going to be even crazier after 3 p.m. when...

Despite my attempts to keep a positive attitude as we shelter in place, I'm not doing as well as I'd like. My husband's cousin was hospitalized Monday with COVID-19. She is on an antibiotic, her...

For people who wonder whether staying home, practicing social distancing and washing hands makes a difference, the head of Hinsdale Hospital says it does. "That is critical to us at the hospital. I...

Hinsdale's Chuck Goudie, an investigative reporter at ABC 7 Eyewitness News, is used to broadcasting from wherever the news takes him. He covered the days following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...

This past week has been a week of firsts - for me and so many others. Ainsley had her first experience with e-learning and Dan had his first experience as her teacher/dean/principal. The three of us...

What a difference a week makes. Last week, Gov. J.B. Prtizker banned events with more than 1,000 attendees, canceled Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day parade and urged businesses to allow employees to...

Hinsdale High School District 86 was scheduled to conduct a second pilot day of e-learning this spring. Now students at Hinsdale Central and those in Community Consolidated District 181 are relying...

My dog is exhausted. It's one of the unexpected side effects of the "social distancing" we're all doing. Dogs are experiencing, as one Facebook post called it, unprecedented levels of People Being...

Disappointment and heartbreak. Those two words describe how many are feeling as entertainment venues are closed, restaurants are limited to carryout and performances and fundraisers are canceled due...

In the midst of a possible moratorium on teardowns and changes to the zoning code, the Hinsdale Historic Preservation Commission conducted a regular slate of business at its March 4 meeting. The...

Sometimes the pain of loss is too difficult to express in words. So Laura Cottrell, bereavement director at Amita St. Thomas Hospice, might ask participants in a grief support group to use a hammer...

Spring is just around the corner, much to the delight of athletes on 13 teams at Hinsdale Central High School. Swimmers on the boys and girls water polo teams face their first competition this week,...

Walk into the Hinsdale Middle School gym and it's hard to know where to look. The striking blue Spartan logo painted on the west wall. Abundant natural light filtering in from the windows. Fitness equ...

We all have those songs that transport us back to a particular moment in time. Play Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel" and I'm on the dance floor at the Hippodrome in London on one of the...

Bob Mason spent 15 years performing in musical theater before he became casting director of Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. He still remembers what it's like to audition - trying to perform while...

Name: Helene Friedman Year: senior Hometown: Hinsdale When did you start playing softball? I started playing when I was in kindergarten for Burr Ridge-Willowbrook. My sisters actually played. What do...

A group of four teachers covered in pads and wearing helmets prepared for a take-down drill during Friday afternoon's training session at Hinsdale South High School. The teachers, whose black gear...

Chocolate. Alcohol. Social media. Did you give up any of these for Lent? I've always found Lent to be an interesting time of deprivation bookended by indulgences (paczki on Fat Tuesday, baskets...

The Hinsdale Central wrestling program sent two competitors to the state meet this weekend, and both returned with All State honors. Freshman Cody Tavoso came in sixth and senior Ron Kruse earned a...

The 23-year-old Hinsdale woman who died from an overdose of heroin and fentanyl on Jan. 15, 2019, was one of 96 people in DuPage County who died from an opioid overdose last year. Two other Hinsdale...