Pat Harper

A rezoning proposal endorsed by the Mokena Planning Commission opens the door for commercial development on the site of a local campground. Commissioners recommended changing the zoning classification of the...

Union electricians protesting the hiring of a non-union contractor on a school district remodeling job set up informational picket lines outside Haven School in New Lenox this week. "I'm going...

Lincoln-Way High School Board members last week approved a budget for the 1999-2000 school year. Expenditures in the budget's three operating funds, educational, building and transportation, are expected to total...

While students are back in the classroom at Lincoln-Way High School, construction workers are still busy outside the East and Central Campus buildings, a construction manager told the school board...

Officials in Mokena last week saw two more developments added to the 191st Street corridor. Corporate Corridors will occupy land south of 191st Street, west of 88th Avenue and north...

Questions about interfund loans stalled a vote on the proposed New Lenox Park District budget last week. At issue is a recommendation by Park District staff to transfer slightly more...

New Lenox Elementary School District 122 opened the new school year with two new schools, Nelson Prairie and Nelson Ridge. And the new classrooms weren't ready a moment too soon,...

Lincoln-Way High School's Marching Knights, who will kick off the new year by marching in one of the nation's oldest parades--the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif.--got an official...

Plans for two residential subdivisions went on hold this week to give Mokena officials time to make sure a creek that runs through both areas will continue to function as...

Access to Park District records and golf course finances spurred conflict among New Lenox Park District commissioners Tuesday night. Park Board President Tom Lewis said Commissioner Mike O'Neill, the board...