Dennis Sullivan

Staff and volunteers began distributing Christmas baskets Wednesday to needy families. The goal of the annual program, which will continue Thursday, is simple, according to township administrative assistant Phyllis Huffman:...

Village manager Michael Grubermann has assailed attempts by District 201-U officials to alter his village's latest tax-incentive financing agreement. "It's a direct throwback to our lawsuit," Grubermann said last week,...

The 2,500 degree Fahrenheit furnace in J.R. Grossman's shop growls as he opens the door. He shoves part of a 5-foot-long hollow steel pipe into its white-hot interior, gathering molten...

An Atlanta-based timber company could employ as many as 30 University Park residents when it begins operating in late 1996, officials said. Georgia-Pacific Inc. has agreed to set aside the...

Crete-Monee's school district expects to trim $600,000 from its budget with the early retirements of 17 employees, according to Bob Koch, District 201-U director of business and human services. Koch...

School District 201-U could trim as much as $1.2 million from its budget over six years through retirement packages offered to 20 employees. The voluntary program is an alternative to...

As the officers assigned to Chicago Heights' new community policing center, Frank Cole and Roland Wolff are the police department to the 1,000 people who call the Wentworth Gardens neighborhood...

The District 201-U school board has unanimously rejected as overly broad a proposed student discipline policy. Board members were particularly concerned about a section that would make it possible for...

Greg Speichert has parlayed his passion for perennials into a business catering to the flourishing water garden market. At first, "we didn't figure water plants would be enough," the Crete...

District 201-U school board members authorized Supt. Steve Humphrey Monday to hire off-duty police officers to check on the residency of students. Crete and University Park police will investigate on...