Friday, December 17, 2021

Yule of Yore: Christmas 1925 in Mokena

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       Christmas is easily the biggest holiday on Mokena’s calendar, it being a grand finale to the year and all of its events.  Each yuleti...
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Friday, December 3, 2021

The Stories in the Stones: The People of Marshall Cemetery

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    We Mokenians of 2021 live in decidedly 21 st   century surroundings, with a fair share of the village’s historic landmarks long since di...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

A Hero's Journey: The Story of Lt. Edward Lauffer

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    In today’s age, we live in a world of short attention spans. The painful truth is that the sacrifices of past generations, of all of the...
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...