Pat Harper

Three Mokena businesses can add to their signs, the Zoning Board of Appeals ruled recently. One change, at the Shell Oil station at 191st Street and LaGrange Road, was actually...

A subdivision developer will be allowed to split his project into three phases, but he will be required to improve an adjacent village road next year. Delaying improvements for Illinois...

A student-built house is going on the market, Lincoln-Way High School Board members said Thursday night, because of the failure of a raffle to reach its goal. The ranch-style home...

Mokena isn't ready to hook up to a Lake Michigan water pipeline yet, but a set of intergovernmental agreements approved Monday positions the village to tie into a lake water...

The New Lenox Park District's Sanctuary Golf Course, which became an issue in the April election, is steadily gaining ground financially, park officials said at a press conference Tuesday. Challengers...

A boundary agreement approved by the New Lenox and Mokena Village Boards puts residents of the Riivendell subdivision on Mokena's side of the boundary line but stipulates that Mokena will...

A "smart-growth" scenario devised for New Lenox by the Chicago-based Environmental Law & Policy Center and presented at a community forum Monday night just recaps policies already in place, according...

Both the former village engineer and a New Lenox trustee said last week that accepting a builder's bond after deadline was an attempt to give a new homeowner a break....

Oswego, another growing community, is the next stop for Carrie Hansen, New Lenox planning and development administrator. Hansen, who has worked for New Lenox for 7 1/2 years, will remain...

New Lenox trustees have called for an ongoing traffic study of the Cedar Road corridor to pay more attention to the intersection of Cedar Road and U.S. Highway 30. "In...