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What Do You Want at the Front Street Market?

Local vendors? Local history? Music? Just farm produce? Tell us what you would like to see at the Front Street market currently being planned.

Mokena's 10-year-old French Market is no more, thanks to .

Now what do you want to see at the new Front Street market?

The village has given its unofficial blessing to a group of Front Street merchants who made their pitch to run a farmers market downtown.

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The planners, who include the owners of , and more, are working to pull together a market by May.

What do you want to see there? Just produce? Local stores? Music? Local history? Tuvan throat singers?

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Put your downtown market wish list in the comments below. As Mayor Joe Werner told the merchants during Monday's meeting, "We want you to say, 'This is what represents Mokena.'"

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Are you a vendor interested in the Front Street market? Contact Barb Bergman at .


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