Pat Harper

The Mokena Elementary District 159 board has approved a $5.9 million tax levy. Although the 1997 levy, which will be collected in 1998, will be higher than the 1996 levy...

Trustees have voted to raise the town's business license fees. The fee schedule was changed after a survey of business license costs in neighboring towns, Village Manager Jim Smithberg said...

Finding the right niche may be the key to making downtown Mokena a drawing card, consultants told about 30 people at a meeting at Mokena Junior High School. Events such...

The Lincoln-Way High School District 210 board Thursday night formally voted to seek a long-anticipated $60 million bond issue referendum in the March 17 election to finance a major expansion...

Plan commissioners have voted to recommend approval of the Hidden Valley subdivision, with 95 homes and a park site near Delaney Road. Commissioners also decided not to file an objection...

Park commissioners Tuesday night scrapped a plan to take over the Cherry Hill School building next year. Park Director Bill McCollum said District 122's insistence that the Park District buy...

The 1997 tax levy approved by the Village Board on Monday will bring in more revenue without raising resident's tax rates, village trustees were told. Growth in the estimated assessed...

Village trustees Monday night joined the chorus of voices from southwest suburban communities calling for construction of a tollway link between Interstate Highway 355 in Bolingbrook and Interstate Highway 80...

Population growth points up the need for New Lenox Township's newly formed Family Services Commission, Supervisor Guy Sell told the Township Board recently. With more people moving into the village...

Designating a historic district in the center of New Lenox would help preserve the town's period homes, but it could also restrict homeowners' maintenance and renovation options, according to village...