The former TJ’s Bar and Grill on Maple Street has been vacant at least 20 or 25 years, New Lenox Mayor Tim Baldermann said.
Tru Country Bar and Grill to fill vacant TJ’s space in New Lenox
Day: August 26, 2024
Editorial: Time to move past rueful chuckles about Chicago and Illinois’ corrupt and damaging ways
A Tribune series on the nature of corruption and its ubiquity in Illinois and Chicago politics kicked off Sunday.
Restaurant news: Stussy’s Diner in Bridgeport, among notable openings and closings around Chicago
A look at Stussy’s Diner in Bridgeport, plus other notable restaurant news, including more openings, closings and new menus.
Letters: Bill that would help provide state universities with right funding would boost Illinois
SB 3965 would create an innovative path toward addressing financial strains and reversing enrollment declines at universities.
I know what you stole last summer: Beg that national park for forgiveness and send it back. Better yet, write a letter.
An art professor has made it his passion to collect what he calls “conscience letters,” the packages that park rangers sometimes receive with natural artifacts that had been swiped as souvenirs. They’re touching reminders of people trying to do the right thing.
Laura Washington: Kamala Harris must engage with voters on crime to maintain momentum
Donald Trump’s campaign may be spewing lies about crime and violence, but Kamala Harris needs to engage on this issue.
Proposed dam removals on Fox River pit environmental groups against some residents
Issues such as safety, habitat, water quality and flooding are at the heart of the argument to remove the dams on the Fox.
Some CPS parents take transportation into their own hands, as busing woes continue for 2024-2025 school year
Without busing, parents of Chicago Public Schools selective enrollment and magnet schools take matters into their own hands.
Froylan Jimenez: Fewer choices in Chicago school board races are a blow for voters
It was very disheartening to find out that a number of Chicago’s elected school board candidates have been thrown off the November ballot.
Stacy Davis Gates: CPS students need a leader who refuses to accept inequities as the status quo
CPS CEO Pedro Martinez saw the fiscal cliff that the end of federal COVID-19 relief funds signified and sat on his hands.