There might not be another game as thrilling as Mount Carmel played on Friday night.That's right, a nationally televised, if on sports cable, game, involving a New Jersey team visiting the Chicago area.
In a nationally televised game, New Jersey visiting St. Joseph Regional High School went up 30-0 on the Caravan just one play into the second quarter. It was the definition of a rout.
Until, the Caravan staged a comeback for the ages. They stunned the high school football world, as Jordan Lynch's Mount Carmel squad overcame that 30-point deficit to shock St. Joseph and win its first game of the season.
“The Delta Eta Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon is aware of a serious incident involving a former member of our organization this past weekend,” the post reads. “Effective immediately, the individual has been removed from the chapter and is prohibited from participating in chapter activities or returning to the chapter house.”Nearly four and twenty years of Cold Spring Shops with no prior mention of the Tekes in our posts.
The fraternity’s statement doesn’t mention a stabbing specifically, but said the incident, which was not fraternity-related, “occurred independently” of the chapter, based on available information.
“The Delta Eta Chapter does not condone violence or serious misconduct,” the statement reads. “The alleged actions of this individual do not reflect the values, expectations, or standards of conduct expected of our chapter and its members.”
In its early years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison offered courses covering Virgil, Cicero, Livy, logic, calculus, ethics, chemistry, constitutional law and other touchstones of a classical education.Maybe the humanities disciplines should have stuck to close reading and creative writing. It's not as if nobody's noticing. "Dear reader, it's straightforward enough: think of 'the humanities' as 'those disciplines that deconstruct reality as a hobby' and you won't go far wrong. That reality has a say in what gets deconstructed never ceases to catch the academy by surprise."
In the year of our Lord 2026, students can stroll past Lincoln’s statue looming atop Bascom Hill on that very same campus to study video games through feminist, queer and ecocritical lenses.
Culture warriors are busy bludgeoning universities for their ideological monocultures: founding civics institutes, prohibiting diversity, equity and inclusion statements in hiring and cutting federal funding to questionable research — but mediocrity is arguably as large a problem as ideological capture.
Countless historic American streetcar and interurban lines have disappeared since their heyday, but I found a place where you can still experience a commute like it’s 1920. This is the East Troy Electric Railroad, Wisconsin’s last running interurban railroad, and it’s one of the most tranquil rides you’ll ever take that doesn’t even surpass 15 mph.We've called attention to the East Troy Electric Railroad numerous times. It's unusual among preservation railways in that its busiest season is fall, for apple picking and leaf peeping.
The East Troy Electric Railroad is one of my favorite kinds of museums. Nestled in the town of East Troy in southeastern Wisconsin, this museum doesn’t really have the marketing of the Illinois Railway Museum or the federally recognized status of the National Railroad Museum. Instead, it’s a museum that you hear about through word of mouth or stumble upon on social media, and it has the same kind of lovely charm as a mom-and-pop shop. The museum is small enough that, if you’re not paying attention, you could drive right by it and not notice it was there.
The Village of Villa Park is working with Illinois Prairie Path, labor unions and two railroad museums to give new life to a piece of west suburban transit history.The Roarin' Elgin shut down late enough into the emergence of a railway preservation movement in these United States that there were interested buyers of cars for preservation, and its inability to attract sufficient capital to completely replace its fleet of wooden cars with steel cars meant a substantial roster of wood cars of relatively low scrap value were available to preservation enthusiasts. At one time, the seven cars numbered 315-321 all remained in preservation. Car 318 was the casualty of a rough shunt on Penn Central en route from Indiana to Wisconsin and became a parts donor to sister cars in the Illinois Railway Museum collection. Car 315 is being rebuilt at the Rockhill Trolley Museum in Pennsylvania in closer to as-built condition, meaning revealing the stained-glass arched upper sash windows that many an interurban covered over to make the car look more streamlined, and Car 316 has received a similar backdating at the Fox River Trolley Museum. Car 319 returned from an Ohio mobile home park to the Illinois Railway Museum a few years ago, and it often runs in the Roarin' Elgin wood car train.
The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad was an electrically powered interurban rail line that connected much of west suburban Kane, DuPage and Cook counties to the Loop. Passenger service operated between 1902 and 1957, and freight service ended two years later. Most of the railroad’s right of way, including the portion that went through Villa Park, was converted into the Illinois Prairie Path walking and biking trail.
Now, Villa Park plans to bring one of the old CA&E railcars, known as Car 321, to the former train station near the intersection of Ardmore Avenue and Central Boulevard. Union laborers would restore the exterior to its original condition and rehab that interior so it can be used to host community events. The village plans to build a short stub track to mount the railcar on, and a shed to protect it from the elements.
Part of the school’s roof was ripped off during Friday’s storm, causing damage and leaving students and staff sheltering inside.The kids listened when the adults talked, and that made tornado day less bad than it could have been. Classes resumed Thursday. If the Depot Stove Gang announce tornado relief efforts we'll let you know.
Band director Renee Schultz says dozens of students were already in the building for a music event when the weather quickly turned.
She says the moment the tornado hit was intense.
“It felt like the building got picked up and sucked up,” said Schultz. “There was a pressure change and then it was like how people describe it, like a freight train and the doors shaking and all of that.”
Despite the damage, no one was hurt. Superintendent Tom Chiles says students and staff responded quickly and professionally.
“Their reaction to the whole situation couldn’t have been any better,” said Chiles. “I thought our adults handled it really well and then the kids listened to those directions very well and that’s why we didn’t have any injuries.”
The storm left visible damage to the building, including the stage area and parts of the roof.
Chiles hosted an open house Wednesday which allowed families to walk through the school, ease some anxiety and feel more comfortable after what many describe as a traumatic experience.
“I just felt it was important that if kids really did feel a lot of trauma, to have mom or dad with them when they got back into the same space again,” explained Chiles.
One parent says their six-year-old daughter was at school when the twister hit.
“So, we wanted to make sure to stop back in and make sure she was good to go, and it looks like so far so good,” said Morgan Howe a parent at Lena-Winslow School District.
Chiles says repairs will take time and could be costly, but much of the building has already been secured and cleared for students to return.
In a social media post Saturday evening, the restaurant said it secured a temporary location at 265 W. Peace Road in Sycamore – the former Eggsclusive Cafe – with plans to reopen by early March. Work is underway to prepare the space so the restaurant can resume serving customers as quickly as possible.The Sycamore Road restaurant suffered an electrical firing in the ceiling. Details about the anticipated reopening, which might be by increments such as no drive-through or a limited menu, will be forthcoming.
Sarah Meyer, Tom & Jerry’s general manager, said the restaurant’s management team first looked at the space on Feb. 1 before signing a lease two days later. She said workers have been inside the location most days since.
“We are still overwhelmed with grief, but I think at this point we are all so busy making plans that we are just forging ahead,” Meyer said.
“I was able to lead a portion of the presentation and introduce Mrs. Erika Kirk onto the stage,” said Oliver Piotrowski, Genoa-Kingston High School Club America Chapter President. “The overall vibe was very patriotic. People were cheering. People were very happy to be there. They were happy to have the opportunity to see Erika Kirk and Secretary McMahon.”That's right, one paragraph describing what happened at the event, and the balance of that story devoted to the same protest-centric coverage we noted yesterday. The print coverage in DeKalb's Daily Chronicle also mostly rehashed the protesters' positions. "Turning Point USA, history event draws protests in Genoa." There was reporting from inside the event, students posting their videos on social media. And people wonder why Washington's Post downsized itself and the other traditional newspapers are as if skin suits. Outside the event, the cold civil war continued.
Around 2 p.m. Thursday, a group of protesters gathered near the high school. Some demonstrators held signs protesting against Trump administration policies, while others showed up to voice their opinion over the decision to hold the event at the school.
Numerous cars passing by on Route 72 honked in apparent approval of the protesters.The education secretary came to Genoa from another school event, at Chicago's Hope Academy, which Chicago's Tribune describes as a "private Christian school." That event was also part of the "History Rocks!" tour, which is your tax dollars at work with a little help from non-governmental organizations of a traditional patriotic persuasion.
The driver of a car with two American flags flying in the back and “Trump” written on a side window passed by the protesters multiple times while revving the engine.
Protests against the Trump Administration's immigration enforcement tactics were held across the country [January 20] — with dozens of those protests happening in Southeastern Wisconsin.Rufus King is notionally a magnet school, although its academic performance is on a par with many urban schools. There might be forces at work other than active immigration patrols making people feel less than safe in their own communities. "That's not an urban design problem, that's what happens when you celebrate transgressivity and call bad behavior authenticity. The same community members who would like to stop the bad driving are also now at work to reduce the gang gunplay. There is still hope for a hurting world." You only have to walk two blocks south or three blocks west of the King campus to find the bad driving.
The demonstrations were organized by The Women's March in what they called the "Free America Walkout," encouraging the public to walk out of school or work in protest of ICE.
In Milwaukee, hundreds of Rufus King High School students walked out of class [January 20] morning and could be seen walking through the Rufus King neighborhood.
"It's really important for all these students to be out here because ICE's policies are not only affecting politics, they're students like us, students around the nation, and it's causing a lot of fear, which becomes an issue in our communities because everybody deserves to be safe and feel safe in their own communities." Kali Maafree, a Rufus King student, said.
