The sign will be installed at Hubbard Park, adjacent to the Thornton quarry at Margaret and Hubbard streets. The village will spend up to $2,000 on the sign, and it will be made to match the signs ...

Irene Botta sleeps with a bar of soap under her pillow. As an 86-year-old resident of Thornton, Botta says the odor coming off the town’s quarry reservoir can be oppressive. “Just this … ...

Diesel soot is so prevalent in Thornton that the American flag flying over Village Hall needs to be replaced at least twice a year, before the filth can be spotted from a distance. A 1996 Illinois ...

The Thornton Reservoir is known far and wide for providing many locals, and some passersby, with a lingering smell of sewage. “I can smell it going down I-80,” said Thornton Village Adm… ...