Niles, IL News - Niles Herald-Spectator

Niles Township High School District 219 has scheduled a community town hall meeting for Tuesday on subjects ranging from student achievement at its two high schools to the district's financial status, officials announced.
The meeting is scheduled to be held in the South Commons at Niles West High......

When Nicole Pompa's guitars were reported stolen in a 1994 Skokie residential burglary, she lost her zeal for music but always kept her eye out for the instruments.
"I hit up all the pawn shops in Chicago until the 2000s," she said. "When I moved to Arizona, I hit up a lot of the pawn shops here."...

Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 students who have significant disabilities would start middle school in fifth grade — one year early — under a policy condemned by parents who said it would undo years of efforts to integrate their children into mainstream...

What is the purpose of high school, or a public education, for that matter?
Is it to prepare students to be successful in life or to achieve at a certain level?
What is the measure of success in life, and how does that translate into success in high school?...