New Lenox backs Creek flood control and recreation project
New Lenox officials endorsed the Spring and Hickory creeks flood control and recreation plan after village plan commission recommended backing the multi million dollar project in full. The plan includes a dam and reservoir near the New Lenox Frankfort line, with land acquisitions totaling about 1500 acres.
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New Lenox Backs Creek
New Lenox Village
Spring
Hickory Creeks
Village Plan Commission
Joe Davies
George Sangmeister
Dmokena
Sangmeister
Division of Water Resources
Lenox- Frankfort
Joliet
Sauk Trail
Frankfort
Wolf Road
Mokena
Hickory Creek
New Lenox
Davies
Will County Forest Preserve District
Fred Henize
Lincoln Way
Frankfort Township
Plan Commission
Route 30 traffic signals debated in New Lenox study
New Lenox officials discussed widening Route 30 and studying traffic signals at Route 30 and Vine Street after Trustee William Brown challenged an application to the CATS group as illegal. Village President Joe Davies defended the move, saying approval came from his role with CATS.
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Pilcher Park
Joliet
Henize
William Brown
Brown
Route 30
Vine Street
New Lenox
Wed
CATS
Davies
Lincoln Way
Joe Malecky
Cedar Road
Lutz Guenther
Lincoln-Way East construction praised despite weather delays
Lincoln-Way Community High School Superintendent Joe Kruzich praised the progress on the Lincoln-Way East project at Route 45 and Colorado Avenue in Frankfort. He cited 1 097 yards of concrete poured and impending first structural beams, noting no major problems though weather and potential trucker strikes could affect the May 1977 completion.
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Lincoln-Way Community High School
Joe Kruzich
Lincoln- Way East
District 210
Route 45
Colorado Avenue
Frankfort
Dous Construction
Kruzich
Frank Goetschel
L-W
Open atmosphere valued in Summit Hill District 161 schools
District 161 promotes a friendly open atmosphere to personalize and humanize education. Principals Norbert Rojewski Jerry Cummings and Alan Trhlik report stronger student engagement and a warmer school climate, with expansion plans at Arbury Hills Frankfort Square and Summit Hill Open space design aids movement and interaction while reducing hallway loitering.
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Summit Hill
Board of Education
Norbert Rojewski
Jerry Cummings
Alan Trhlik
Cummings
Frankfort Square
Arbury Hills
Trhlik
Frankfort Square School
District 161
Summit Hill Junior High
Rojewski
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State Division of Water Resources
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Craig Camp
Inside Magazine
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Tinley Park High School
Jim Hanley
Dennis Wheeler
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