Pat Harper

A township commission to help families is about ready to form, Township Supervisor Guy Sell said. Among the Township Board's projects for early 1997 are assembling an advisory board drawn...

School District 122 will take its case for an increase in the education fund tax rate back to voters in February. The school board voted to try again after voters...

The current Cherry Hill School building will house its last crop of kindergarten classes next year. Plans to build an addition to the school, which houses kindergarten classes on Washington...

A gasoline service station at Chicago and Steger Roads now qualifies as the 16th establishment to hold a liquor license in the community, thanks to rezoning action by the Village...

Village Board members say they are opposed to a business owner's request to have his property rezoned from residential to commercial, citing traffic concerns and the primarily residential character of...

A survey of 1,500 parents who attended parent-teacher conferences in New Lenox Elementary School District 122 indicated that most have a favorable impression of the school, Assistant Supt. Edward Tatro...

Shouldering a flintlock musket and toting a wooden chest filled with trade goods, a visitor from the Isle a la Cache Museum gave Hickory Creek School 5th graders in Frankfort...

The Lincoln-Way High School Board has bid farewell to one veteran board member and welcomed back another. Renee Kosel, a 13-year board member, has resigned to take office as state...

School District 159 Supt. Roger Reardon and school board members have announced that they will lobby the Mokena Village Board for business development along 191st Street. A study of the...

Village officials are expected to prohibit liquor sales between 1 and 7 a.m. and stop issuing liquor licenses to gas stations when they revise the liquor-license ordinance next year. Trustee...