Sheila Burt

HOMER GLEN Vote delayed on removal of berm After a heated discussion, the Homer Glen Village Board decided this week to delay voting on an engineering bid for the removal...

New Lenox resident Linda Bethke knew very little about hospice -- or end-of-life -- care a year ago. But in October when her mother-in-law learned she had lung cancer, which...

TINLEY PARK Trustee demands vacant site cleanup If a local bank doesn't clean up the weeds and debris on the northwest corner of 171st Street and 84th Avenue, village employees...

HOMER GLEN Larger bus lot wins village OK The Village Board approved plans this week for a larger school bus lot than Homer Glen's zoning laws normally allow. The lot...

HOMER GLEN Village pins hopes on stimulus money The village is hoping to secure money from the federal stimulus package for what officials called long overdue roadwork. At a recent...

HOMER GLEN Oakwood barrier to be removed A landscape berm will be removed from a subdivision at Oakwood Drive after some residents complained it made it difficult to reach their...

HOMER GLEN Village increases sales tax to 8% The Homer Glen Village Board is increasing the sales tax by 1 percentage point -- raising the rate from 7 percent to...

Helen Osterman, a retired nurse who writes mystery novels in her Homer Glen home, said her afternoons are too frequently marred by the loud barking of her neighbor's three German...

BOLINGBROOK Village Board approves police promotions Two weeks after Kevin McCarthy took over as chief of the Bolingbrook Police Department, trustees backed several promotions within the command staff. McCarthy, former...

EVERGREEN PARK Village agrees to hire 5 more police officers Evergreen Park will add five patrol officers later this year. The Village Board this week approved hiring the officers at...