Marilyn Thomas

Everybody knows Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, but for a few evenings before Christmas, Chuck and Kathy Edelhofer of Oak Forest share their address with him. Santa Claus...

After two years of complaining they were bearing too much of the tax burden, homeowners in the Landings subdivision will see a 7 percent drop in their 1997 tax bills....

Taking the reigns of city government into their own hands, students from Oak Forest High School recently accomplished in 50 minutes what elected city officials sometimes take months to accomplish....

At the suggestion of city building inspector Jeff Lane, the Oak Forest City Council has followed the lead of Tinley Park in spelling out how multifamily rental dwellings can be...

Members of the Oak Forest City Council say they are tired of cajoling a local developer who they say repeatedly has failed to comply with city requests and homeowners' needs....

The opening salvos of the city elections have been fired. At a City Council meeting, the discussion of the city's burning of landscape waste at the old fire station came...

City officials say a special committee will work with Sexton Disposal Services to come up with a solution to garbage hauling problems. Aldermen Susan Hofrichter and Fred Rave were appointed...

Emergency services in Oak Forest could get a boost if residents Tuesday approve an increase in the 911 service fee charged to their phone lines, officials said. "We'd rather have...

Arguing that setting salaries is an administrative prerogative, Mayor James Richmond took offense last week to council members who proposed paying a public works assistant superintendent a larger salary than...

The Oak Forest City Council refused to make its $8,100 payment to Sexton Disposal Services of Chicago Heights, arguing that the garbage hauler owes money to the city. On a...