CAMPTON HILLS, Ill. (AP) - Two people killed when an SUV they were riding in rear-ended a school bus Monday in a Chicago suburb have been identified as a brother and sister. The Kane County Coroner's Office said Tuesday 20-year-old Grace Diewald and 19-year-old Emil Diewald died from blunt force trauma. Police say the siblings were passengers in an SUV driven by an 18-year-old Elgin man when it crashed Monday afternoon into the back of a Central Unit District 301 school bus that had stopped to drop off students. The Daily Herald of Arlington Heights reports that the bus driver and the 31 children on the bus were not injured. The SUV's driver and a third passenger were injured.
Batavia teacher named Kane County Educator of the Year Susan Jones, who teaches at Alice Gustafson Elementary School in Batavia, was honored in a ceremony Friday as Kane County Educator of the Year.
Updated 4/30/2021 9:40 PM
A special-education teacher in Batavia Unit District 101 was named Kane County Educator of the Year Friday.
Susan Jones, who teaches at Alice Gustafson Elementary School, has been a teacher for 33 years, according to a news release from the Kane County Regional Office of Education.
She received a $3,000 prize from the ROE, to be used for a project of her choosing at her school.
The ceremony honored nominees from the 2019-2020 school year, after last year s ceremony was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.