A Daily Herald editorial applauds schools that give students reasons to believe there will be a brighter future by teaching them how to help make it so.
As schools adopt green-minded projects, the use of solar panel arrays, rooftop gardens and cafeteria composting serve a dual function: They reduce schools carbon footprints while teaching students about sustainability with real-world examples.
Charlene Cakora devoted "every day" of the last 31 months to setting her brother free. Her anguish has turned into a wave of relief. American hostage Mark Frerichs, a Lombard native and civil engineering contractor who was abducted in Afghanistan in January 2020, was released by the Taliban on Monday in exchange for a convicted Taliban drug lord who had been held in U.S. federal prison.