Pat Harper

A new angle: If you find a "gone fishing" sign on the door of Mokena Junior High School, it's for real. The school is forming an anglers club for its...

The long wait for a park in Romeoville's Lakewood Estates is almost over. After more than two years of negotiations with the developer, DiPaolo Corp., Romeoville Parks Director Steve Gulden...

A developer has been turned down in his bid to have the Village of New Lenox defer water and sewer tap-on fees for his proposed 24-home development. Trustees this week...

A $44,000 study of the Cedar Road corridor was approved by a 4-3 vote of the New Lenox Village Board this week. The contract awarded to Metro Transportation includes $10,000...

The proceeds from oil pipeline easements approved this week by the Mokena Village Board will help finance landscape buffering at a proposed waste water-treatment site. Lakehead Pipeline Co. of Superior,...

A Tinley Park civic leader was named to his first political office by Mayor Edward Zabrocki late Tuesday afternoon. Zabrocki said Matthew Heffernan, a 17-year resident, agreed Monday to replace...

A turn-of-the-century home on Wolf Road can be rezoned to house a florist shop, the Mokena Zoning Board of Appeals has decided. Lucy Struple and Nancy Reuth recently had asked...

Phil Hurst (right) is a Michelangelo of ice. He runs Your Chef Custom Ice Sculpturing in Westmont. When he's not turning ice cubes into art, Hurst, 40, lives in Burr...

Phil Hurst (above) is a Michelangelo of ice. He runs Your Chef Custom Ice Sculpturing in Westmont. When he's not turning ice cubes into art, Hurst, 40, lives in Burr...

Art doesn't just imitate life, it's part of it, according to Lincoln-Way High School art teacher Julie McGuire and artist-in-residence Jeanette May. May, a Chicago artist, spent some time in...