The Community mock trial team saw its most successful season in history this year, placing among steep Chicagoland competition at every tournament but a 50-team state contest. At half of the eight tournaments attended, Community placed in the top five of about 20 teams—unprecedented group success—as...

Mr. Ricky King, 2023 Bilingual Teacher of the Year recipient, spills on the ESL Department at Community.

Chaotic.  Dystopian.  Entertaining.  Every time Mr. Ricky King revisits the iconic Hunger Games franchise, these words fly into his head like one of Katniss Everdeen’s razor-sharp arrows. The Community ESL teacher first watched “The Hunger Games” as a high schooler in 2012, and the...