Pat Harper

A recent sting operation by police in which a 17-year-old visited 12 stores to buy cigarettes in New Lenox resulted in tickets and $25 fines for clerks at eight businesses....

Barry Ross, 40, of Schererville, Ind., is an insurance agent who has combined his love of animals and his talent for art into an extra career, sketching and painting pets,...

Support for a referendum proposal to finance expansion of Lincoln-Way High School was sought Thursday night by a gathering of 200 people. The volunteer steering committee that arranged the meeting...

With enrollment at a high point, the time has come to consider operating the elementary and junior high schools on different schedules to maximize safety and minimize traffic on the...

Pretty crafty: With flowers, candy and sentimental declarations standard issue for Sweetest Day commemorations, Scott McKanna of Minooka decided he needed to dream up something different. McKanna's Sweetest Day plans...

Investigator Edmund Rooney (below) opened his own firm, RALI,P.C. (Rooney and Associates Legal Investigations, Private Corp.), in Mokena six months ago. Rooney, 39, is a member of the Mokena Chamber...

More than 60 people showed up at the Mokena Village Hall recently to discuss plans to create a downtown business area that is more than a quaint reminder of the...

New Lenox trustees said they favor requiring that sidewalks be installed in new subdivisions before building permits are issued. Village Engineer Ron Franciskovich told trustees at a recent Village Board...

Almost 30 area business people went back to class at Lincoln-Way High School Thursday. The annual invitation extended in honor of American Education Week is an opportunity to show the...

A proposal to annex more than 300 acres of once-disputed territory northwest of the village into New Lenox has gained Plan Commission backing. A boundary agreement signed by the Village...