Naperville Central head baseball coach Mike Stock was named to the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association (IHSBCA) ...

The Illinois General Election will take place on Nov. 3, with local, state and federal government positions on the ballot, including those for candidates of the 2026 National Midterm Elections.

Average class sizes at Naperville Central High School have increased from 28 to 30 students for the 2026–2027 school year, a shift many teachers learned of only late in the summer. The increase stems ...

Partnering with local nonprofit Beautifully EmpowHERed, Naperville Central’s new Women in Business club aims to provide ...

For the first time since 2021, the Chicago White Sox will play October baseball. After everything this franchise has been through, that sentence still feels a little strange to write. The White Sox ...

I mix up red and green. Blue and purple. Orange and yellow. It usually plays out like a party trick. Someone finds out I’m colorblind, grabs the nearest object, and demands a test. I make a guess.

Everyone deals with coffee spills, bad drivers and paper cuts. These annoyances used to go unmentioned because a minor inconvenience didn’t need an audience. Now, the barrier between an internal ...

“Do you think you know sports?” Sydney Sweeney asked the world as she just barely covered herself in footballs, basketballs, tennis rackets, hockey equipment and soccer balls. What do all these sports ...

Q: What inspired you to become an ASL teacher specifically? A: “I took ASL when I was in high school, and I loved it. I [took] four years of it. I still keep in contact with my old sign language ...

Editor’s note: Central Times reporters made multiple attempts to interview Highlands Elementary staff directly for this story. At no time was a teacher asked to speak on behalf of the district — only ...

Phoebe Bridgers hosted her Chicago stop of her Lost Tour at the United Center on Sept. 19 as her second night at her third tour location. Her tour is centered around her most recent album “Lost ...

Celebrating homecoming in front of a packed crowd at Memorial Stadium, Naperville Central overcame early mistakes to claim a 36-29 victory over Metea Valley in a high-scoring Week 6 matchup. The win ...