November 7, 2023
As District 214’s CyberPatriot team launches into the competitive season, students are finding value beyond the competition. Created by the Air & Space the CyberPatriot program ...

November 1, 2023
As a recently minted Illinois Democracy School, Wheeling High School displays a new plaque and banner. But for students and staff, the benefits of this newly earned designation ex...

October 27, 2023
Elk Grove High School teacher Sara Zielinski says she originally went to college to study aerospace engineering. Then on the job, she realized that it wasn’t what she wanted in a ...

October 24, 2023
Anyone who has followed suburban high school distance running recently knows about District 214 graduates Kevin Salvano and Hailey Bowes. Kevin, after all, won the 2015 individu...

October 20, 2023
Get ready to be transported to a world of wonder as highly acclaimed magician Bill Cook takes the stage at Forest View Educational Center, 2121 S. Goebbert Road in Arlington Heigh...

October 11, 2023
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October 11, 2023
John Hersey High School held an inclusive basketball game as part of its homecoming festivities. Sixty-five students in the Career Life Skills program played in the fourth annua...
October 6, 2023
Around 180 choral students from across District 214 participated in this year’s Voices of 214 Festival, sponsored by Arts Unlimited. They took part in an all-day clinic at Elk G...

October 3, 2023
As a junior at Buffalo Grove High School, Shruti Mukhopadhyay was thinking about her future—in college and beyond. She was interested in pursuing an engineering degree, maybe spec...

September 19, 2023
Vasyl Mattichuk wanted to become a U.S. citizen. “I was a young man from Ukraine who had always dreamed of living in the United States,” he said. Fascinated by American culture an...

September 19, 2023
For reasons that no longer matter so much, Alex Mendoza dropped out of high school. “But I knew I couldn’t be fooling around. I knew I needed my high school diploma to get a bette...
September 19, 2023
Mom was a music education professor; Dad was a music teacher and band director. Dad’s idea of fun during family road trips was to quiz their three young sons on the differences ...

September 7, 2023
District 214 families and staff are invited to Tee Up for 214, an evening of fun and community spirit in support of the District 214 Education Foundation. This year’s event takes ...

August 31, 2023
Wheeling High School is hosting the 55th Annual Chicagoland Marching Band Festival on Saturday, September 16, 2023. It is the longest consecutive running marching band festival in...

August 22, 2023
Jeanette Huerta graduated from Elk Grove High School in 2015. Several years later, after a disappointing freshman year at college, two separate year-long stints with the Army Nati...

August 17, 2023
On August 17, the team of world religions teachers from District 214, led by Prospect High School’s John Camardella, made a presentation to the Parliament of the World’s Religions...
August 7, 2023
District 214 students are making a splash through summer internships. From firefighting, to fashion, and even herpetology, students are getting a jumpstart to finding their future...

August 1, 2023
From left: The Lilac Laser team winners of the ComEd EV race from Saturday, July 29 featured Rachel Chen, Tabitha Woods, Elizabeth Meza, Ariel Gray and Vivienne DeRosa. (Photo by ...
July 26, 2023
Ricky Castro’s Oasis summer camp has now come full circle. Since 2015, Castro has run a summer camp at the Oasis Mobile Home Park. Located in unincorporated Des Plaines, the Oa...
