John Jonak News Today

After a robust lobbying effort from suburban school and park districts, county leaders are moving to exempt thousands of employees from Cook County’s hastily passed ordinance that strengthened paid leave policies for all county workers, allowing employees to take time off for any reason, not just sickness. Decrying an unfunded mandate and scant notice about how to implement it, several ...

Rosemont Elementary District 78 -- the single-school district teaching 215 students from preschool through eighth grade in the villages gated community -- will get its first new superintendent in 23 years this summer.