Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Randy Jessen, the village's superintendent of public works, said the light should be operational by the end of the year.
Work has started this week on the installation of a traffic signal at the Route 59 entrance to St. Mary Immaculate Parish. Church officials requested that the Illinois Department of Transportation authorize the light because of the huge number of people who attend St. Mary's, the largest Catholic church in Illinois. The church has agreed to cover the construction expense. If all goes according to plan, the traffic signal will be operational by the end of the year, said Randy Jessen, Plainfield's superintendent of public works. The Rev. David Medow, St. Mary's pastor, has said some 10,000 cars will enter and exit the church parking lot at 15629 S. Route 59 every weekend, a volume so great they've had to hire police officers to direct …
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Catholic Charities wants an injunction to protect them from having to comply with anti-discrimination laws tied to same-sex civil union legislation.
Catholic Charities in the dioceses of Joliet, Peoria and Springfield filed an emergency injunction Tuesday that would allow them to reject adoption requests from any unmarried couple, including same-sex partners joined in a civil union. The request, filed in Sangamon County Circuit Court in Springfield, seeks a temporary restraining order to stop the state from forcing the agencies to comply with anti-discrimination policies that were part of the civil union legislation that kicked in June 1, according to a story in the Chicago Tribune. The Joliet Catholic diocese includes all of Plainfield. St. Mary Immaculate Parish in Plainfield is the largest Catholic church in the state. According to the suit, the agencies are trying to "avert an …
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Residents urged to keep off the streets through Thursday; school canceled again because of dangerously cold temperatures.
As Plainfield continued to clear the roads of of snow Wednesday night, impeded by more than 80 stranded vehicles, Mayor Michael Collins declared a "local state of emergency." At the worst of the storm Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, 30 vehicles were blocking roadways and 25 people had to be given shelter at the Plainfield Police Department. The shelter remains open as needed, particularly as temperatures drop to dangerously cold levels overnight. Public works officials said they hoped to make at least one to two snow plow passes through every village subdivision overnight Wednesday before tackling cul-de-sacs, which are last on the list for clearing, said Amy De Boni, in a news release issued Wednesday afternoon. On-street parking …
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Bishop Joseph M. Siegel will serve as the diocese's caretaker until a replacement for Bishop J. Peter Sartain can be named.
Bishop Joseph M. Siegel, who once served as a parochial vicar for St. Mary Immaculate Parish in Plainfield, has been named administrator for the Diocese of Joliet. He will assume many of the powers and obligations previously handled by Bishop J. Peter Sartain, who headed the Joliet diocese for four years until his appointment as archbishop for the Archdiocese of Seattle, according to a Diocese of Joliet release. Sartain was installed in that new position on Dec. 1. Siegel, 47, was elected by the College of Consultors on Dec. 3. Under church law, the college must convene within eight days after a diocese loses its bishop through death, resignation or transfer, the release said. As the diocesean administrator, Siegel's role will be as a …
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Volume of traffic coming and going at the Catholic church/school -- as many as 10,000 cars on weekends -- justifies the need for a light, the Rev. David Medow says.
The Rev. David Medow estimates as many as 10,000 cars make their way to St. Mary Immaculate Parish every weekend, ferrying church-goers to one of 11 masses held on Saturday and Sunday. Traffic volume is so great, in fact, that the church pays the Plainfield Police Department to help direct vehicles in to and out of the parish's parking lot at 15629 S. Route 59, Medow said. So two years ago, when church officials learned the state was going to widen Route 59 to four lanes through south Plainfield, they knew their chance to get a traffic signal had arrived, he said. "We approached (the Illinois Department of Transportation) about it in 2008, and they said, no, that wouldn't be possible," Medow said. "I knew we couldn't accept that answer…
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Janice Kissane
7:56 pm on Wednesday, September 28, 2011
About time! more ›