Pat Harper

The village got a little bigger this week. Following up on an intergovernmental agreement between village trustees and the Park District board, trustees agreed during a Monday night Village Board...

Trustees are cracking down on neon. The Village Board approved an amendment to the zoning code prohibiting illuminating the edges of doors and windows with neon strips, strings of lights...

A transportation-oriented development near the Hickory Creek train station could become a key component of the plan for the 191st Street corridor. At a joint meeting of the Village Board...

A new volunteer organization is calling for environmental action. Lorrie Cerkvenik told trustees this week that the Community Affairs Commission wants to establish a community tree board. The tree board's...

The architecture and layout of a major commercial development won Village Board approval on Monday. Mokena Marketplace, proposed by Mokena Retail Associates would bring a 207,000-plus-square-foot Meijer store to the...

Frankfort homeowners troubled by the erosion of a local lake will get some help from the village. Trustees voted this week to upgrade the storm-water management system and restore the...

The Village Board instead of a review committee will have final authority to accept plans for commercial and business development, it was decided this week. Village Administrator John Downs said...

Citing the rapid growth of a service area that includes parts of the village, unincorporated land and neighboring Mokena, Fire Protection District Chief James Grady outlined plans for a 3,883-square-foot...

Another neighborhood can look forward to clearer water after the Village Board agreed this week to fund an iron-removal project for the subdivision's local well. An iron-removal system will be...

Mokena trustees this week signed off on the village's first big-box retail development. A 200,000-square-foot Meijer store and a 100,000-square-foot J.C. Penney will anchor the 54-acre Mokena Marketplace on the...