Dennis Sullivan

The recent defeat of Gov. Jim Edgar's push to replace some property taxes with revenue from an income tax increase to fund schools can be attributed to affluent north suburban...

The Steger-South Chicago Heights Public Library Board has proposed levying a 0.02 percent property tax to raise revenue for its building and maintenance fund. The board automatically will be authorized...

A local taxpayer group that spurred a recent Illinois House resolution related to overlapping taxing districts is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Steger's Village Hall. The Steger...

Representatives of a Chicago-based lobbying group will make their annual visit to Steger residents and storekeepers in June. Board members stipulated that weekday visits to homes and businesses be limited...

Village President Lou Sherman has said the village and East View School will split the cost of installing a sidewalk on 35th Street, between Hopkins and Lewis Streets. Sherman, speaking...

Steger trustees voted Monday night to accept a Dolton-based construction company's bids totaling $1.05 million to build a senior citizens center and gymnasium on the village's south side. Village officials...

Crete-Monee school district officials plan to build a 2,600-square-foot addition to the center serving the 5th and 6th grades in time for the 1997-98 school year. School district officials contend...

A 29-year-old Steger woman was killed earlier this week in a two-car crash in Harvey. Jennifer Betancourt died Wednesday at Columbia-Olympia Fields Osteopathic Medical Center from injuries sustained Tuesday. The...

Village officials have approved $1.7 million in general obligation bonds to cover sewer repairs and improvements around Steger. Roughly half that amount will go to stem Chicago Road flooding, village...

Crete-Monee school district's practice of deficit budgeting to continue operating will probably soon land it on the state's financial watch list, school Supt. Steve Humphrey told school board members. Humphrey,...