Patricia Trebe

Voters in the south and southwest suburbs demonstrated little appetite for change Tuesday, returning to office mayors who were up for re-election in Country Club Hills, Joliet, Channahon, Park Forest...

BOLINGBROOK Officials OK plan for new sidewalks Sidewalks will be installed this spring along several more streets in older neighborhoods. Trustees this week approved a $228,000 contract with Bartlett-based A&R...

HOMER GLEN Villlage makes deal on roadwork costs A proposed intergovernmental agreement would make Will County responsible for 65 percent of most costs associated with improvements to 143rd Street intersections...

If Richard F. Chase liked an idea, he would see it through to the end. Whether it was forming a consortium to build a Chicago-area sports arena or starting his...

Two men were charged with residential burglary and criminal damage to property, accused of spending a weekend night in a home in the Hidden Valley subdivision and causing $10,000 in...

Village officials hope a special census to be conducted in the coming months will show that Plainfield has added 4,000 residents since the last census was taken in 2005. Trustees...

The Promenade, a retail shopping center opening in April that sprawls across both sides of Boughton Road, received Village Board approval this week for an expansion project. The developer, Forest...

The village has extended its agreement with Joe DePaulo, the former owner of Clow International Airport, to continue running airport operations at least through the spring. When the village bought...

The village put a stop order on three developments last week after staff discovered that the developer built buildings with final designs that were not approved by the Village Board....

A now-routine test in women's yearly gynecological exams was a notable breakthrough in the 1940s when Lucille Chappell and a few others worked as technicians to isolate the cells that...