Denise Sperekas was a first-time home buyer when she paid $126,100-- $173,550 in today’s dollars-- just before Thanksgiving 2001 for a brand new townhome in Montgomery’s Lakewood Creek subdivision.
As part of Earthquake Preparedness Month, Illinois disaster officials are reminding residents that the threat of quakes is real, even for a Midwest state.
Covering 541 homes and six square miles of unincorporated Will County just outside Joliet’s southeastern city limits, Union School District 81 is easy to overlook on a map.
U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), said the pipelines "provide the opportunity to move our economy forward with job growth and lower energy costs."
Among registered voters, private sector taxpayers outnumber state and local public sector workers and pensioners nearly nine to one in the 37th Illinois House district, according to a Will County Gazette analysis.