Pat Harper

The New Lenox Park District voted Tuesday night to ask a Joliet developer for land rather than cash. Park director Bill McCollum said it is the first action to fall...

The proposed New Lenox Commons project, under discussion for many years, may be moving forward soon, members of the New Lenox Open Space Committee said Monday evening. The proposed Commons...

The rose bush that Anita Drinkall's great-great-great-grandfather Stephen Findlay brought from Scotland in 1844 is still blooming, and so is the Presbyterian congregation that was born in the parlor of...

Mexican music, Chinese food, an Irish dancer in emerald green and an all-American electronic-basketball hoop set a multicultural tone at the Mokena Park District's first Ethnic Fest Saturday. The fest...

No sign of progress: U.S. Highway 30 seems destined to spend its summers as a work in progress. In a project that grew like dandelions, road crews started widening the...

The Romeoville Village Board has approved the site, landscape plan and engineering for a 120,000-square-foot retail development on the northeast corner of Weber Road and 135th Street. The primary tenant...

A small fire that forced the evacuation of a day-care center Tuesday might have had a small cause. Firefighters said a bird's nest resting on a wire might have sparked...

The New Lenox Zoning Board of Appeals this week shot down an oil company's request for larger-than-average signs but left the door open for some setback variations in the planned...

The New Lenox Plan Commission decided Monday night to continue until Aug. 3 a public hearing on an open-space study that calls for the creation of an extended greenway where...

As Romeoville grows, village officials might want to consider adding to the mix of economic incentives for development, Village Atty. Ray Meader told the Village Board. "The retail (development) is...