Music in motion: Chicagoland’s marching bands take center stage

Wheeling High School is hosting the 56th Annual Chicagoland Marching Band Festival on Saturday, September 14. It is the longest consecutive running marching band festival in the Chicagoland area. 

Accelerating careers with D214 summer internships

District 214 students are accelerating their future careers with summer internships. From working at an auto body shop, to sports marketing and environmental science, students are getting hands-on experience to pursue their dreams.

Wheeling High School alum pays it forward with Harvard Summer Experience

Rishi Ganti needed his next math challenge and wasn’t sure where to turn. He’d taken his first high school-level math course as an eighth grader at Holmes Junior High. By his junior year at Wheeling High School, he was acing calculus, the highest-level math course WHS offered in the late ‘80s.

Perez, Newcomer Academy provide warm welcome, learning and support

Prospect alum Erin Reese launches her way to Paris Olympics

From high school state champion to Olympian, Erin Reese is ready to show her strength to the world in the hammer throw. The Prospect High School 2014 graduate came in third place at the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon.

Six athletes represent D214 at U.S. Olympic Trials

With the excitement of Paris on the horizon, District 214 is beaming with pride as we celebrate the outstanding achievement of six alumni who competed fiercely in the U.S. Olympic Trials.

Cameron Christie joins brother in the NBA

From our halls to the pros, Cameron Christie is officially in the NBA. The Rolling Meadows High School 2023 graduate was the 46th pick in the second round of the draft by the L.A. Clippers.

From Fixing TVs to Founding Geek Squad: Meet Wheeling Alum Robert Stephens

After stints in art school and selling mattresses, Robert Stephens – WHS Class of 1987 – founded Geek Squad at age 25 and hasn’t looked back since. To converse with Stephens is to try gamely to keep up with a free-form, free-flowing mind and personality fueled by curiosity, an absence of conventionality and deep interest in the next big thing, whatever that may be.