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A school district in western Cook County has come to a settlement with a former teacher in a case about religious discrimination.

An Evanston playwright hopes to make his audience members examine their own religious and racial divisions. He’s written a play called Defamation.

Celebrations of the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur ended for the year but the Jewish season of rejoicing continued Wednesday with the festival known as Sukkot.Chicago writer Ellen Blum Barish was thinking about the places where her life and the deeper meanings of the holiday intersect

In honor of esteemed alumnus the Reverend Dr. William R. Johnson, class of '68, Elmhurst College has named its annual LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) lecture the William R. Johnson Guestship.

DuPage County has new rules on where places of assembly, including places of worship, can set up. The county board Tuesday voted unanimously to allow those institutions into all zoning districts by right.

On this Columbus Day, an excerpt from Bartolomé de las Casas’ A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, the first protest against the excesses of European colonization in the Americas by one of their own.

This week the DuPage County Board is expected to vote on new rules about where places of worship can locate. The changes would allow houses of worship into all zoning districts by right, unlike before.