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Flushing of various fire hydrants around the New Chicago Water System will take place between 10pm on September 18th, 2025 and 2am on September 19th, 2025. During this time, you may experience lower than normal water pressure.

The town cleanup originally scheduled for September 13th, 2025 has been rescheduled to September 20th, 2025.

Get ready for the first year of the New Chicago Town Wide Garage Sale and Rummage/Craft In The Park on September 6th, 2025! The park event will be from 9am to 3pm and with no limit to the time that day for the town wide garage sale!

When signing up, please be sure to give your address and what types of items you will have! We plan to add that to the flyers!

Want to have your spot listed on our map that will be posted for folks to grab? Head over to the water department to pay the $5 fee to help your local park department cover the cost of printing the flyers and also raise some funds for our parks!

Looking for a spot at the park instead? We have 30 spots available to choose from! A 10’ x 10’ spot is only $15 and a 10’ x 20’ spot is only $25! People who sign up for a spot at the park will also be listed on our flyer!

Reach out to your New Chicago Parks Department at 219-940-6193 with any questions you may have! You may text or call that number!

Online bill payment is now live! Click the button the home page to be able to pay your water bill online!

Starting soon, New Chicago Water Department will be able to accept online bill payments utilizing credit and debt cards. More information on this will come as we get closer to the launch date!

Due to scheduling conflicts, the various board and council meetings will be held in the following locations:

1. Monday, August 4th, 2025 – Police Commission Meeting – Rosser Hall, Upstairs Police Department
2. Tuesday, August 5th, 2025 – Parks Board Meeting – Little Rosser Hall (Lake Station Community Center), 3107 35th Ave, Lake Station, IN
3. Wednesday, August 6th, 2025 – Planning Commission (5pm) & Town Council Meeting (6pm) – Little Rosser Hall (Lake Station Community Center), 3107 35th Ave, Lake Station, IN

Due to the change of location of the Parks Board and Town Council Meetings, the live stream may not be available. If not, a recording of the meeting will still be made and uploaded for future viewing.

The Town of New Chicago is looking for Utility Workers for the Water & Street Department along with clerks in the water department. Apply at the water department located at River Forest High School, Door 3 (Back of Building).

The New Chicago Park Board and New Chicago Town Council meetings will be live streamed every month. This started officially with the February meetings. The meetings will be streamed to YouTube each month and stored there for later viewing. You can find these streams on the Town of New Chicago YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/@TownOfNewChicago and view at any time. If you have a YouTube account, be sure to hit Subscribe on the page and then hit it again and select all so that you should get a notification 30 minutes prior to the stream starting and also when the stream starts.

Please note: The only meeting that is required to be streamed is the Town Council meeting. Also, comments that come in during the stream are not required to be read. Someone will try to monitor the stream for comments that come in stating that there is no audio so that issues can be fixed, but that will be the extent of it. If you would like to make a comment that is officially part of the record, please come in person to any of the town meetings.

As a reminder, the schedule of meetings for the town are as follows:

• Police Commission – 1st Monday of the month at 6pm
• Parks Board – 1st Tuesday of the month at 6pm
• Planning Commission – 2nd Wednesday of the month at 5pm
  • These meetings only take place when needed and may not happen every month.
• Town Council – 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm.

Meetings are subject to change due to availability to the various board/council members as an official meeting can only be held when a quorum is present and may also change due to holidays or in the case of the Parks Board, election days. If there is a change to the schedule of a meeting that was not already advertised at the beginning of the year in the local newspapers, a sign will be posted at the temporary town hall/water department, a reach alert will be sent out (sign up for Reach Alert for free at https://app.reachalert.com/network-select) and we will do our best to make a post here and also on the various Facebook pages. By state law, the only two required postings of a change of meeting are at the meeting location and to be advertised in the classified section of the newspaper.

All garbage pickup will be from the roadway on Friday, February 14th, 2025. No garbage will be picked up in the alley due to the snow fall on February 12th, 2025. Please contact the town hall or Total Disposal with any questions.