Frankfort Square News

Littlest Elves Holiday Workshop: 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 28 at Pilcher Park Nature Center, 2501 Highland Park Drive, Joliet.

Frankenstein's kiddie carnival: 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 16, Central Elementary School, 23723 Getson Drive in Plainfield.

The construction may have ended, but it only signals the beginning for Island Prairie Park in Frankfort Square.

The construct ion may have ended, but it only signals the beginning for Island Prairie Park in Frankfort Square .

Frankfort Jaycees haunted house: 7 to 10 p.m. Oct. 16-17, 23-24, 30-31 at the Frankfort Square Park District, 7540 W. Braemar Lane.

Scarecrow and pumpkin party: 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 10 in Central Park on Route 6, east of Bluff Road, in Channahon.

Even though this is the last year the Frankfort Area Jaycees will be holding their annual haunted house at the Frankfort Square Park District, the members are quickly planning to scare you in 2010.

School is back in session at Lincoln-Way Central High School, and for the first time, at West campus, as well.

A 100-acre site at Illinois Highway and Gougar Road officially became Warriors Country on Sunday, with the formal dedication of Lincoln-Way West High School.

Bobby Douglass watches Lincoln-Way North quarterback Jake Wittman fire a pass, as the former Bears' quarterback was helping young QBs at LWN July 12.

ErikSchmitz, a functional glass artist for Unbroken Glass Designs, works on a piece at his home in Frankfort Square.

The Frankfort Square Park District is currently making final preparations for its application for a 2010 Illinois Department of Natural Resources Grant for improvements to its proposed Lighthouse Pointe Park Development.

No person has ever done what Urvi Shah got the opportunity to do. Shah, who is completing her junior year at Lincoln-Way North High School in Frankfort Township, was the school's first-ever student council president.

Will County sheriff's police are still searching for a Frankfort Township woman who, along with her sister have been charged with criminal neglect of an elderly person.

As the sun set behind Lincoln-Way East's stadium Thursday, June 4, so it did on the high school career of the class of 2009.

Christel Fannin-Cline just wants to do right by the environment and her baby. But being a busy working mom, the Frankfort Square resident doesn't think she will have time to do what moms have done for centuries -- use cloth diapers.

By next summer one of the village's oldest parks will look a lot newer, thanks in part to a state grant.