Pat Harper

Two major projects scheduled to begin this year hiked the expenditure column of the 1998-99 budget approved Tuesday by the Village Board, but the budget is in the black. Expenditures...

New Lenox officials on Tuesday night took the first step toward creating a new town center. The 1998-99 budget approved by the board allocates $750,000 for buying property and providing...

Tim Butler is a doctor who makes house calls. Butler, 37, cares for sick trees through his Mokena-based Tree Technology, which began with one truck in 1993 and now boasts...

Is this how the Kennedys got started? Democratic congressional candidate Gary Mueller enjoys the campaign trail, but he's not on it alone. The Mueller offspring -- Erin, 6; Benjamin, 5;...

Ground has not been broken yet, but members of the Lincoln-Way High School Board got their first update on the school district's expansion process Thursday night. The job will begin...

Two men who grew up in Romeoville were honored by the Village Board this week as police officer of the year and firefighter of the year. The awards, given for...

Construction work on the new Cherry Hill School building is six weeks ahead of schedule, an architect told the New Lenox Elementary District 122 School Board. Architect Ron Wrobel said...

Life experience was on sale this week at Martino Junior High School in New Lenox. As part of the school's Career Day, 8th graders armed with imaginary paychecks and a...

Republican gubernatorial candidate George Ryan, Illinois' secretary of state, took his campaign Tuesday to Lincoln-Way High School, where he watched students and teachers bring technology into the classroom. Ryan, who...

A property owner will have to make more progress cleaning up an industrial park on 191st Street to win commercial rezoning for part of a La Grange Road building, trustees...