Pat Harper

A refinancing move by the Village Board is expected to save the village more than $50,000 in interest costs, according to a financial adviser. Kevin McKenna, a financial adviser to...

Because no residents showed up at a public hearing called to discuss Romeoville's proposed higher tax levy this week, trustees delayed the hearing for another week before voting on the...

Park officials want to know if they have a chance of saving Cherry Hill School from the wrecking ball before they shell out money to study renovation costs, New Lenox...

Weary of the hassles over space and scheduling created by dealing with two rival youth baseball associations, New Lenox park commissioners want to see the two groups begin a dialogue....

Stirring pumpkin soup, dipping wax candles and struggling with quill pens, 5th graders at Hickory Creek-Frankfort Junior High School recreated the lives of North America's earliest European settlers. Girls, some...

South Cedar Road is the next major street in line for renovation, New Lenox officials said Tuesday night. After learning the project qualifies for the Illinois Department of Transportation's Local...

A citizens steering committee supporting a referendum proposal to finance expanding Lincoln-Way High School has mapped out a grass-roots campaign. The campaign, now in the planning stages, will begin in...

The Mokena Village Board on Monday approved an intergovernmental agreement with New Lenox to pay part of the engineering costs for an oversized water line that would carry Lake Michigan...

Village officials want to know what it would cost to acquire land for a village green south of U.S. Highway 30. Trustees recently agreed to hire a Joliet appraisal firm...

Sarah Schumacher isn't afraid of the big, bad wolf. In fact, he'd be welcome to huff and puff at the straw house in the 8th-grade science project that gained national...