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Farmers Market Reporter Goes to New Lenox — Suburb With Papal Tie

  • Writer: Bob Benenson
    Bob Benenson
  • Jun 4
  • 1 min read

New Start for the City's Market After a Long Hiatus


Farmers Market Reporter graphic
Farmers Market Reporter graphic

New Lenox, an outer suburb southwest of Chicago, has just welcomed a new farmers market, ending a long hiatus after an earlier market closed. Farmers Market Reporter Ed Kugler paid a visit last Thursday (May 29), and from his photos below, it looks like the new market has a lot going for it.


New Lenox is in Will County, about 40 miles from downtown Chicago and seven miles east of Joliet, the county seat. Like many in the outer ring of Chicago suburbs, New Lenox was mainly a farm town before World War II. Now home to more than 27,000 residents, it had 1,750 in 1960.


It is home to Silver Cross Hospital and its three high schools that bear the name Lincoln-Way have had notable success in sports.


New Lenox has, in fact, generated a number of professional athletes. It also found itself in the news recently because a brother of Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, lives in New Lenox.


Enjoy Ed's virtual tour below.


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Village Commons, New Lenox

Thursdays, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.


Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler

Farmers Market Reporter Ed Kugler with New Lenox Farmers Market Manager Michele Arana.


Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler
Photo by Ed Kugler


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