Pat Harper

A proposed retail development featuring a Home Depot would have to meet village officials' and residents' needs, Mayor Robert Chiszar said this week. A meeting will be scheduled to outline...

Voters will be asked Nov. 7 if they want to issue $7.4 million in bonds to retool Mokena's water system and bring in Lake Michigan water. The Village Board voted...

The New Lenox Economic Development Commission decided recently to take a more active role in increasing the village's tax base. "We have to be the catalyst. We have to be...

A police liaison officer funded by state grant money will be on duty at each of the Lincoln-Way High School campuses this year. State Rep. Renee Kosel (R-New Lenox) and...

From lifting weights to playing foosball, area kids can find something to do at the Youth Center opened by I-80 Regional YMCA in Mokena Sunday. "What's really important," said Larry...

The parkway tree program is being overhauled, but new homeowners in New Lenox still will get their trees. Trustees agreed that the system under which the village collects money for...

The parkway tree program is being overhauled, but new homeowners in New Lenox still will get their trees. Trustees agreed that the system under which the village collects money for...

Families roaming the woods at NORTH PARK VILLAGE NATURE CENTER are likely to see painted turtles and others called red-eared sliders basking in the sun on rocks and logs. They...

Trustees in New Lenox Tuesday overruled a Plan Commission recommendation and approved a commercial rezoning on North Cedar Road. "I don't know that we have a legal basis not to"...

Some homeowners on the south end of Mokena urged village officials Monday to keep Home Depot out of their back yards. "I moved to Mokena to get away from development,"...