Pat Harper

School report cards indicate Elementary District 122 is above average in student achievement but below average in financing, Supt. Thomas Mullins said Wednesday. While New Lenox students' average test scores...

The newly formed Mokena Youth Commission is gearing up to hire a part-time coordinator. Trustees have agreed to set aside Village Hall work space for the commission's coordinator, whose pay...

Citing rising land prices and dwindling open space, Mokena Park Board President Ken Echternach made a successful plea Monday for village trustees' support for a $4.5 million Park District referendum...

More than 32,000 surveys were mailed to registered voters in the Lincoln-Way High School attendance area this month. More than 1,000 have been returned, said Lincoln-Way East Principal Michael Gardner....

The village has authorized a study that would determine the average number of cars traveling down 12 area streets. Both main roads and outlying streets will be surveyed, Planning and...

Mokena voters will be asked Nov. 5 to authorize a $4.5 million bond issue to buy and develop park land. If voters approve, proceeds from the bond issue will be...

Plan Commission members on Monday recommended approval of plans to expand a new subdivision in the southwest section of the village. Jack Fugate of Highlander Development Inc. told the commission...

Ideas spring to life with color and movement as freshmen in Tim Reilly's core English class at Lincoln-Way East High School scrawl definitions and symbols for a new set of...

If Mokena residents vote to pipe in Lake Michigan water, they can expect to pay higher water rates, but prices could go down if the village joins forces with New...

Castles and dragons, long the stuff of kids' fantasies, are about to be translated into a form of reality in what may be the ultimate do-it-yourself project. Hunched over a...