Pat Harper

Saturday was a perfect day for strolling in the park, eating Asian food or watching kilt-clad Scottish dancers--and Mokena's Main Park was the perfect place for all of those activities....

A new five-year agreement with area park districts includes arrangements for using Lincoln-Way High School's new athletic fields and the swimming pools due to be added to the campuses. The...

A proposal for an industrial park on 191st Street near the Metra railroad tracks was presented at a work session last week but shot down by trustees, who said they...

In a year-end report to the Lincoln-Way High School board, the president of the Lincoln-Way Foundation outlined some of the fundraising group's recent contributions. Janet Caschetta, president of the volunteer...

Mayor Robert Chiszar and several trustees affirmed their support this week for the Wolf Road route selected for Sunday's 4th of July parade sponsored by the Mokena Chamber of Commerce....

Mokena's budget for fiscal 1999-2000 features a lower tax rate, coupled with "proactive spending" to keep pace with village growth and pursue economic development, Village Administrator John Downs told the...

Recent outages notwithstanding, the Mokena Village Board had enough power to put the heat on a Commonwealth Edison representative Monday. Peter Evers, the region's public affairs officer for Commonwealth Edison,...

A proposed "back-to-basics" budget leaves the New Lenox Park District's Sanctuary Golf Course to pay its own way, a park commissioner said recently. Commissioner Mike O'Neill, Park Board treasurer, said...

The school colors and mascot for the Lincoln-Way High School East Campus will be the focus of attention for the District 210 Advisory Committee this year. Supt. Lawrence Wyllie said...

A turn-of-the-century summertime came back to life in Joliet's Cathedral neighborhood Sunday as horse-drawn buggies paraded slowly down the streets, music drifted from the gazebo in Preservation Park and six...