Pat Harper

Ensuring the required storm-water detention area is safe for children is the key problem in changing Cherry Hill School construction plans, school officials told the Village Board this week. Construction...

Cherry Hill School might escape the wrecking ball if either the village or the Park District can afford rehab costs. Trustee Patrick Flynn said Park District officials "have an extreme...

A tentative budget for the 1997-98 school year sees Mokena Elementary School District 159 in the black, according to Assistant Supt. Pat Chesla. The district's proposed budget of more than...

A subdivision developer won't have to dig up plastic sewer pipe and replace it with concrete, but he will have to turn over the money he might have saved. The...

The game was afoot at the Mokena Library last week. A trail of orange and black construction paper footprints led 20-plus mystery fans to the lair of "Sleuths on the...

The old Cherry Hill School building, slated for demolition, could be preserved for village office space and Park District program space, according to a village trustee. Trustee Dave Smith said...

A land-use plan developed for 191st Street cuts the acreage earmarked for industrial use and emphasizes office and residential uses. The plan for 191st Street between La Grange and Wolf...

A state startup grant for an early childhood program came in lower than expected but the program will go on nonetheless, the Mokena Elementary School District 159 Board of Education...

With bike-riding kids cruising past tiny stone cottages on miniature streets, Safety Town looks like a playground. But it's really an outdoor classroom, where the fun is designed to teach...

New Lenox officials voted Tuesday night to join a growing list of towns supporting a highway link between Interstate Highway 55 in Bolingbrook and Interstate Highway 80 in New Lenox....