Dennis Sullivan

CALUMET CITY City curbs queries about citizenship City officials recently approved a resolution telling police to refrain from asking a person's citizenship status during routine contacts. In a 7-0 vote,...

Considering the desperate state of the auto industry, Steve Peters Chevrolet had little trouble convincing Homewood officials that the business would fail without village help. Trustees approved a rebate of...

CALUMET CITY Teeth-whitening firms under review The City Council has declared a moratorium until October on licensing businesses that whiten or bleach teeth. The action came after it was recently...

When word spread that the village of Crestwood had secretly pumped drinking water from a polluted well to residents for more than two decades, other south suburbs took the step...

MOKENA Redevelopment district sought for downtown A tax increment financing district is the key to pumping more life into Mokena's 19th Century downtown, village officials said this week. Economic Development...

Tinley Park Sam's Club may get 'complete overhaul' Trustees are expected to consider a request later this month to add 22,000 square feet to the 112,000-square-foot Sam's Club at the...

With only about 1,300 residents, not much happens in the village of Grant Park, Ill., a close-knit community nestled in Kankakee County some 50 miles south of Chicago. So when...

Ed Zabrocki, 67 *Incumbent, seeking an eighth term. Except for stint as state representative in 1994 and 1995, has been village president since 1981. *Takes partial credit for: Fiscally conservative...

TINLEY PARK Trustee demands vacant site cleanup If a local bank doesn't clean up the weeds and debris on the northwest corner of 171st Street and 84th Avenue, village employees...

With Joliet's budget forecasts worsening, it looked like the annual Easter Parade would become the city's latest victim to tough times. But Joliet police stepped in last week and signed...