Pat Harper

Plans for expanding Mokena's waste water-treatment plant are expected to be complete next month, trustees learned at a work session this week. The plant at 11400 W. 191st St. is...

A compromise with a landowner may help the village get the acreage it needs to expand a waste water-treatment plant, village officials said recently. To keep pace with the needs...

The village this week will mail out a survey to find out how residents feel about services and community issues. The survey will be similar to the last effort at...

Intersection renovations at Wolf and LaPorte Roads will get some federal funding, Village Engineer Paul Pearson told the Village Board recently. A grant application for federal funding submitted to the...

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

Mokena trustees voted Monday night to outlaw drug paraphernalia. Police Chief Stephen Pollak said the town's crimefighting strategy has emphasized prevention, especially for such offenses as marijuana possession, tobacco possession...

A sackful of success: For a tiny square object of minimal price, the traditional White Castle burger appears to inspire outsize passions. Those unfamiliar with the fare of childhood afternoons...

A quest for annexation that began in 1994 ended successfully when the New Lenox Village Board voted to annex more than 35 properties. The resolution last year of a longstanding...

A quest for annexation that began in 1994 ended successfully when the New Lenox Village Board voted to annex more than 35 properties. The resolution last year of a longstanding...

Homer Township residents who say they fear an erosion of their rural lifestyle asked New Lenox trustees Tuesday to reconsider their recent annexation of some Homer Township land on the...