Pat Harper

A request from a local video store owner to place a sign on the roof of his building has prompted the New Lenox Village Board to re-examine its sign ordinance....

The Village Board has approved a land sale that gives the Creekview subdivision a site for a neighborhood park. Trustees voted earlier this week to sell slightly more than 6.5...

Preliminary plans for an apartment development have been approved by the Village Board, with plans for commercial development also moving ahead. "We want to see (the commercial development) going forward,"...

Engineering work for a pipeline to carry Lake Michigan water from Tinley Park to New Lenox should be completed by the end of March, an engineering consultant said recently. Brett...

With a growing enrollment in need of transport, the Mokena Elementary District 159 board will stagger school starting times in the fall. Using the results of a transportation survey in...

Finding a developer with a taste for history would be the best of both worlds for the New Lenox Area Historical Society and New Lenox Elementary School District 122 when...

School colors: Jim Rinke of Mokena graduated from Lincoln-Way High School almost two decades ago, but he's still true to his school. Rinke, class of '80, recently donated his stained-glass...

From a vantage point at the edge of suburban development near Illinois Highway 59, students at Troy Middle School took a deeper look recently at the "soil-versus-sprawl" debate that occupies...

From a vantage point at the edge of suburban development near Illinois Highway 59, students at Troy Middle School took a deeper look recently at the "soil-versus-sprawl" debate that occupies...

Cedar Road, New Lenox's main north-south thoroughfare, is about to be refurbished. Trustees recently approved a $46,985 engineering contract with Teng & Associates Inc. for the renovation of the Cedar...