Patch Flash: Suburb Joins Occupy Protests

Participants also received a positive response from many drivers passing by, with only a few shouting out obscenities. The overriding message from the people who came out to protest was that power needs to be returned to the people and that corporations hold too much sway with Congress, the president and politicians. 

A growing number of schools are failing under the federal accountability law, No Child Left Behind, according to the 2011 State Assessment data that the Illinois State Board of Education has released. In light of these results, . Results show 695 or 80 percent of Illinois districts and 2,548 or 65 percent of schools, up from 51 percent last year, failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under No Child Left Behind. Only eight high schools made AYP based on this year’s test results.

. Members of the Libertyville High School volleyball team were headed to Woodstock for a tournament when their bus crashed into a pick up truck on Route 83 in Grayslake this morning. 

. Jericha Shively, 23, of 4512 Amy Drive in Crystal Lake was charged with two counts of unlawful financial exploitation of an elderly person and two counts of unlawful use of a credit card.

Saturday night during the 37th annual Those Who Excel/Illinois Teacher of the Year banquet in Bloomington. State Superintendent Christopher A. Koch credited Stumpenhorst with being a student-centered teacher who focuses on learning strategies that will help every student achieve.

in a five-part interview with Oak Park Patch.