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If you are among the 97 percent of motorists who speed along Laraway Road, you might be relieved to know Will County is expected to raise the speed limit on a 12-mile stretch of roadway.

Click here for more photos Tommy Nevin's Irish Pub and Restaurant is selective about where it stakes its claim.

Mayor Jim Holland, village Trustees Dick Trevarthan and Mike Stevens and community relations manager Mary Canino recently traveled to the Executive Mansion in Springfield to accept the first-place Governor's Home Town Award for the village's Earth Day Celebration.

They know it's just a matter of time before people start asking about it. And when they do, officials in Frankfort and New Lenox hope to be ready with answers.

Whether he's picking up litter on his morning walks or organizing a golf outing for more than 200 people, no task is too insignificant or too overwhelming for Ed Selvas.

Epworth United Methodist Church, 627 Gentleman Road, will be a drop-off location this year for gift-filled shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child.

Secretary of State Jesse White will offer a free Rules of the Road review class for Oak Lawn-area residents from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday at the Oak Lawn Senior Center, 5330 W. 95th St., Oak Lawn.

The speed limit on most of Laraway Road might go up. Although it's 40 mph now, it soon could become 45 mph, if the Will County Board makes that decision.

"The Laramie Project": Theatre on the Hill's "The Laramie Project" will be performed Fridays to Sundays, Nov.

Martin Walthier was just looking for a good deal on a flight to his German homeland when he was led to a cultural club, DANK - the German American National Congress.

The village of Frankfort is spending $795,000 on a 3.5-acre parcel in hopes of future redevelopment of a prime downtown property.

After a 27-year presence in Frankfort, Fox Home Center will close its store there, across the street from Breidert's Green, by the end of the year.

Anglin, formerly of Frankfort, was charged nearly three years ago with mail and wire fraud and ultimately pleaded "no contest" to duping more than 40 investors from states including Florida, New Jersey and New York.

Feedback has been trickling into Frankfort on whether or not the village should tap in to Lake Michigan water, but village officials want more.

More than 2,000 people, mostly parents and their children, flocked to Plainfield Central High School on Wednesday to get free H1N1 flu mist vaccines.

Click here for more photos Originating in 1989 in Chicago, Francesca's now has locations throughout the suburbs - 20 in all - including the 13th, Francesca's Fortunato in Frankfort.

Every year, Palos Park resident Shawn Montell frequents the Mokena Community Park District's Halloween Hallow festival, and she drags along whoever will go with her.

At a tiny farm on the fringes of Frankfort, Steve Eager is trying to undo decades of farming techniques he believes are harmful to your health.

A man and a woman suspected of committing a murder in Illinois were arrested Wednesday in Larimer County just south of Fort Collins.