Area high school students investigate ‘Gap Year’ at New Trier fair

“Life is long.” Suzi Katlin’s comment may be at odds with conventional wisdom, but those who attended the Gap Year Fair at New Trier Township High School in Winnetka on Saturday wanted to explore the road less traveled through life. Katlin and her 17-year-old daughter …Read More

• Quinn pitches tax relief for families, businesses that hire vets; more college aid

• Wilmette police charge two Evanston teens in illegal drug sales

  A tip earlier this year that two men were selling drugs, including cocaine, Ecstasy and marijuana, to young people in Wilmette led to their arrest Friday in one of the men’s Evanston home. Wilmette police, acting on a search warrant, arrested Patrick E. Whitington, 18, …Read More

• ‘Drive’ leads this week’s new video releases

  Film noir goes ultra-stylish in the visually dazzling crime drama “Drive,” featuring Ryan Gosling and Albert Brooks, and serial-murder goes ultra-bleak in the grim “Texas Killing Fields.”

• Wilmette police blotter for Jan. 24 through Jan. 30
• Boys Basketball: New Trier outlasts Glenbrook South