To celebrate National Foreign Language Week, the Hillcrest IMC is hosting a “Where in the World” contest.  Students are to use a map and their research skills to find the setting of 10 foreign language...

For the fourth year in the row, Hillcrest students have participated in and received prizes and notoriety from the Museum of Science and Industry's Black Creativity Art Exhibition. This year juniors,...

This semester the Hillcrest High School ‘4 in 4’ book club is reading A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park.  This ‘4 in 4’ book club is a District 228 initiative where four different titles...

Hillcrest teacher Amy Trench proudly welcomes Officer Hoehn from the Hazel Crest Police Department to Hillcrest to speak to all five of our sophomore driver education classes. Officer Hoehn is a twelve-year...

On February 25, 2018, Hillcrest French 2 and French 3 students took a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago to tour the extensive Impressionism pieces housed there. Impressionism is a style or...

Hillcrest High School students from Mrs. Jean Sweeney’s, Ms. Alicia Sink’s, and Ms. Christina Botica’s  Culinary Arts classes recently attended a Culinary Arts Open House at Joliet Junior College...

The Hillcrest African Student Association proudly invites community members to their Origins Fair on Wednesday, 2/28/18 from 5:30 to 8:30 P.M. This free event designed to celebrate African and African-American...

Culinary Arts and AP Anatomy/Physiology students got schooled on pork anatomy and production last week at Hillcrest High School.  Two Culinary Arts teachers from Hillcrest, Jean Sweeney and Christina...

On Friday February 16th, Hillcrest teacher Ms. Trench invited a representative from the Secretary of State's office to come and to speak to all sophomores in driver education classes. Daniel Lietz,...

Over 25 students participated in the Hillcrest High School IMC ‘Blind Date with a Book’ Valentine’s Day event. The IMC staff hoped ‘Blind Date with a Book’ would introduce students to a variety...

On Wednesday, January 24th, Hillcrest High School along with 3 Seeds Mentoring Group held a Youth Summit “to expose our students to the vast amount of experience and expertise of so many individuals,...

January 22nd – January 26th School Spirit Activities Monday (1/22):  “TWIN DAY” – Students and staff dress to match another person. Girls Basketball @ Andrew HS (4:30/6:30) Tuesday...