Dennis Sullivan

Peering into an adjoining room filled with people staring at computer screens, County Recorder of Deeds Mary Ann Stukel could identify nearly all of them: employees of title companies. Like...

The Steger Planning Commission agreed Thursday night to endorse plans for a 4-acre family development northwest of 34th Street and Sherman Road. Brothers Michael, John and Peter Pacelli want to...

Village trustees voted Monday night to approve an ordinance adding two new positions to the five-member Municipal Playground and Recreation Board. The expansion is effective immediately. Village President Lou Sherman...

The owners of 50 acres on the village's north end that are being sought for a wetland system have until June 4 to respond to condemnation proceedings initiated by the...

A New Lenox-based ambulance company could begin providing paramedic service to Steger in early May, village officials said. Village Trustee Tory Recupito predicted Kurtz Ambulance Service Inc. will employ at...

Dave Cummings remembers his family's first night, about 15 years ago, in their south suburban Flossmoor home. He said a carload of white teenagers kept driving around the house, shouting...

The south suburbs are reviving from the recession of the 1980s, according to economic development expert Bob Skurla. Empty buildings are still the rule in Park Forest and Chicago Heights....

Steger trustees tabled formal consideration Monday of bids submitted by four private firms hoping to provide paramedic services to the village and scheduled a special meeting to discuss the bids...

The Village of Steger now will charge $50 to inspect previously inhabited apartments and single-family homes before they can be reoccupied. Village trustees this week settled on the new fee....

Village trustees have approved a $550,000 loan to pay for furniture, equipment and additional construction of Steger's recreation center. Trustee Jim Johnson, the board's liaison to the village Recreation Board,...