LIGHTING UP ELWOOD - Regena G.F. Harris shows off some of her collection boxes in her home in Elwood. Regena has made a hobby out of collecting unique cigarette lighters and other items, putting them on display in cardboard boxes. One of her displays even got her recognition from the Will County Farm Bureau. Read Regena's unique tale in this week's editions of The Free Press Advocate, The Coal City Courant and The Braidwood Journal. Photo by Marney Simon.
One of Braidwood's most active local contractors found himself in jail within two hours of standing up at a City Council, complaining of being harassed. Tuesday, August 31, 2010
After a series of public meetings and mounds of paperwork, the Braidwood City Council finally took a major step toward ending the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) I district. Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Rick Roseland was sitting around one day with a few of his buddies when the idea to have a garage sale popped up in their conversation.
"My wife Jeanie just laughed at us, so we decided that we'd show her and thus the five guys garage sale came to be," Roseland said. Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Maine Township honored one of its own as township officials gathered at the town hall on Monday to recognize and remember long time town clerk, Robert Krull. Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Seventeen years of discussion and repetitious preliminary work all led back to the starting point where the Kankakee River dam at Wilmington is concerned - nothing can happen to address safety issues there until the state of Illinois becomes the owner of the structure and has access to it. Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Wilmington Coalition for a Healthy Community is one of 169 organizations nationwide to be awarded a Drug Free Communities Support Program Grant (DFC). The grant award was announced Tuesday night. Tuesday, August 31, 2010
ELWOOD - Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery would like to make Elwood its official home, according to a recent petition for annexation filed with the village. Tuesday, August 31, 2010
