By Diana Leane, online managing editor Twice a year, a magical trance encapsulates about 2100 teenagers in the Mount Prospect-Arlington Heights area. Students rush to libraries, shove their faces in books...

By Caley Griebenow, associate editor-in-chief “Fight with my sister less, and take Spike on more walks.” That was what nine-year-old me wrote on a slip of paper and sealed it in an envelope. It was...

By Leo Garkisch, copy editor Hey Chicago, what do I say? The Cubs just won the World Series and I, the schmuck whose Snapchat username is drwhitesox, took a victory lap around the block with the windows...

By Jack Ankony, executive sports editor School on Wednesday, Nov. 2, consisted of me overthinking every situation: every move Maddon would make, every pitch Hendricks would paint on the corner. Never...

By Amanda Stickels, online executive editor I couldn’t even imagine living with a disability, let alone living with a disability and not being able to talk about it. This is how my dogs Bacchus and Avalanche...

By Marisa Flack, staff writer Since freshmen aren't allowed to leave campus, lunch gives them little freedom to choose where to eat. Something they can choose is what to eat, and I did not choose the easy...

By Flynn Geraghty, associate editor-in-chief The movies I watched when I was a little girl were fairly standard and formulaic: “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” I could...

By Caroline Binley, online editor-in-chief The exchange in video My lesson in pasta, failure and astrophysics Italians aren’t the only spaghetti chefs in the universe. Black holes, too, know how to...

By Alyssa Duetsch, online managing editor Leaving your fly undone. Having broccoli in your teeth. Running up to hug someone who is, in fact, not your relative. Having someone look through your search...

By Garrett Strother, entertainment editor I am a concerned American. At this point in time, there is no shortage of us. Left and right, the approaching election taps us on the shoulder, draws us close,...

By Cole Altmayer, staff writer The super-villain checklist Have you ever dreamed of world domination? Or, at least, of obtaining a limitless fortune through treachery and blasphemous acts? If you have,...

By Jack Ryan, executive in-depth editor I was in my Italian class a couple weeks ago and I told my classmate about a sex ring that was busted in Arlington Heights, the town we have lived in our whole lives....