Pat Harper

Tuesday is moving day for Schmuhl School. Perched on blocks above its foundation, New Lenox Township's last remaining one-room schoolhouse waits on the southeast corner of U.S. Highway 30 and...

Improvements in the New Lenox Commons area will go forward even if a village plan to buy Park District land falls through, village officials said this week. Mayor Mike Smith...

The Orland Park Lions Club is adopting a local woodland. Village trustees this week approved the club's proposal to clean up Ravinia Woods at 148th Street and Ravinia Avenue. The...

Two Sandburg High School students have asked the Village Board to improve intersections on 151st Street. Erika Pernecky told Orland Park trustees Monday that the intersection of 151st Street and...

Students with discipline problems that force them out of Lincoln-Way High School don't have to give up their chance for a high school diploma. And now they have an additional...

With a growing residential tax base and a budget limited by a tax cap, the New Lenox Park District needs alternative revenue sources, a park official said recently. About 92...

The vacant post of New Lenox Park District director will be filled by the man who took over the job on an interim basis. In a rare unanimous vote, the...

A busy building season and rising costs forced architects to make some changes in the plans for a new junior high school in Mokena, the District 159 school board learned...

The plight of a captured leprechaun grabbed the attention of 5th graders at Frankfort's Hickory Creek Middle School last week. "As long as you hold on to a leprechaun, he...

With one major project planned and another coming up for a vote in the fall, Mokena trustees hired a bond counsel and a financial adviser Monday. Village Administrator John Downs...