Pat Harper

A pipeline to carry Lake Michigan water from Tinley Park to New Lenox is moving closer to reality. New Lenox trustees this week tentatively awarded three contracts for phases of...

Liquor license hours won't be extended in Mokena, Mayor Robert Chiszar and trustees said at a work session this week. Chiszar said a tavern owner had asked to tack another...

Officials this week reassured Riivendell residents that their unincorporated subdivision can't be forced to join a village. Riivendell, a neighborhood of more than 100 single-family homes on 1- and 2-acre...

The annexation that brought land at La Grange and LaPorte Roads into Mokena should provide good opportunities for development, officials said. A development plan approved by the Village Board Monday...

The New Lenox Village Board Tuesday night awarded a $45,000 consulting contract to Rolf C. Campbell and Associates to study the north side of the village, where a proposed highway...

Fears that an area preschool program will be dismantled are premature, District 122 Supt. Thomas Mullins said this week. Two parents whose children are enrolled in Project BEGIN, an educational...

New Lenox trustees said this week they plan a 5 percent increase in the land-value figure used to set developers' fees. The amount of cash or land a developer has...

A legal opinion from the village attorney indicates that New Lenox can regulate tattoo parlors for health and safety reasons. The village has no tattoo parlors, but there have been...

Local veterans groups have formed a committee to design and install a memorial to those who have served in the armed forces. The memorial, which American Legion member Terry Burns...

A traffic consultant told New Lenox officials Monday night that Cedar Road has some trouble spots that will create significant tie-ups. "The performance of the whole corridor is really pinched...