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City of Lanark, Illinois
A "TREE CITY U.S.A." Community

The City of Lanark was established in 1861

Lanark is a beautiful, peaceful rural community located in Northwest Illinois.
It is 20 Minutes East of the Mississippi River, 55 minutes Southwest of Rockford, IL, and 2 hours West of Chicago.

The city is known as one of the most beautiful communities in the region. It has stately trees, an historic, picturesque business district and magnificent old and new homes.

Lanark takes great pride in the academic and extracurricular achievements of its students in the Eastland School District.

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Request for Qualifications (RFQ) Architectural Services

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES
RFQ DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2010, 4:30 P.M.
RFQ TITLE: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SERVICES FOR LANARK MUNICIPAL BUILDING

The City of Lanark is openly soliciting Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for architectural / engineering services.

CLICK HERE to download the full RFQ.

Lanark Strategic Planning - second session

Tuesday, February 9
6:00 pm at the Heritage Center

Share your vision for Lanark.
Residents and stakeholder of Lanark are invited to help shape the future of the City.
Click here for more information.

Lanark Library features Snapshot Day

Libraries all around the state of Illinois will feature Snapshot-One Day in the Life of Illinois Libraries on February 10. The community is invited to the Library at 110 West Carroll Street to share their stories of how libraries have played an important role in their lives for entertainment, enlightenment or personal enrichment.
Robin Fisch, Family Nutrition/Family Consumer Science Educator from University of Illinois Extension will hold half hour sessions demonstrating ways to preserve your family story in the form of an heirloom cookbook or personal memoir. Fisch will give programs at 3:30, 4:00 and 4:30. Coffee and Hot cider will be served. Each person will be ask to add their favorite book or author to a wall chart that will be posted in the library. A display will also feature recently acquired audio books, large print titles and DVD's. For more information call 815-493-2166 Tues, Wed, Fri Noon-5 Thurs Noon-7:30 and Sat 10-3.

Job Opportunity

The U.S. Census Bureau is recruiting temporary, part-time census takers for the 2010 Census. These short-term jobs offer good pay, flexible hours, paid training, and reimbursement for authorized work-related expenses, such as mileage incurred while conducting census work. Best of all, census takers work right in their own communities.
Click here to find out more about being a census taker.
Click here for local testing dates.

Follow What's Happening on Facebook

Lanark has a Facebook page.
Click here to become a fan.

Pay your Water/Sewer/Garbage Bill Online!

You can now pay your water, sewer, garbage bill with a credit card via the internet. Please visit the following link to Illinois E-Pay sight: Click here then follow the instructions on that page.

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