Matt's Old Mokena
Friday, October 29, 2021
The Great Mokena Sandwich Heist: A Halloween Tale of 1919
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The season of tricks and treats is upon us. Ghosts, witches and black cats, our community has a long history with all of them on the All...
Friday, October 15, 2021
Red Hot Escape: Mokena's 1909 Jailbreak
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Our fair village is generally a peaceful place, as it always has been. However, if one knows just where to look, provocative cases of cr...
Sunday, September 26, 2021
From Hardware to Hot Shaves: The Story of 11014 Front Street
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Viewed as a whole, Mokena is divided up into lots and blocks, looking like a cross section of squares and rectangles. If we see it as a ...
Friday, September 3, 2021
Skyscraper of the Prairie: the Mokena Grain Elevator
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Mokena is built upon a solid foundation of agricultural bedrock. Farmers were the lifeblood of our community for well over a century, an...
Friday, August 20, 2021
Pioneer Scribe: The Story of Julia Atkins and the Mokena Star
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Looking back upon Mokena’s history, prominent names are sprinkled throughout the pages, such as that of Allen Denny, the founder of ou...
Friday, August 6, 2021
Sons of the Soil: The Story of the Cleveland Family
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History has been kind to the earthly memory of our earliest settlers, those honored few who braved the fierce unknown of the American we...
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