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In exchange for $16,000, a woman agreed to drop her lawsuit claiming false arrest against the City of Joliet and a police detective.
A Will County judge blocked the pretrial release of a retired Illinois Department of Corrections sergeant charged with shooting and killing his son at a Plainfield forest preserve.
Will County forensic interviewers work on the front lines with police and prosecutors with fighting crimes against children. The interviewers allow child victims to "finally have a voice" and share their story.
Plainfield Police Sgt. Luke Ostreko said a career in law enforcement can "offer so much if you’re willing to be invested in it and take the time to make it what you want it to be."
Plainfield Police Officer Dean Klier said his experience in his first year as a school resource officer has taught him that "everybody has a story,” whether it’s “inside the school or on the street.”
A Lockport city attorney agreed to plead guilty to improper lane usage after a special prosecutor dropped a DUI charge against her. If she completes her brief court supervision sentence, she will have no conviction on her record.
A Crest Hill man pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of his infant daughter and he was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison, according to prosecutors.
A Chicago man has been charged in Will County with disclosing a woman’s private images on the website Reddit. He was arrested in Missouri and awaits extradition to Illinois, police said.
A Will County judge ordered the jail release of a man charged with a 2017 murder at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse but he suspended his court order to give prosecutors time to appeal his decision.
Firefighters with six agencies in Will and Grundy counties received state grant funding to purchase small firefighting and ambulance equipment.
A judge granted default judgment after Salem Village Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Joliet failed to respond to a lawsuit filed against them over the death of a resident who was attacked by another resident.
A Lockport man allegedly armed with a gun had ordered four painters he hired to go into his bedroom, where he accused them of stealing a jewelry box, police said.
Will County prosecutors said a Joliet man approached an inmate at the jail and asked him to kill a confidential informant in a 2017 felony gun case.
A Lockport man was charged with public indecency after he allegedly exposed himself to a woman on her doorbell camera. A warrant said the man is unemployed and had prior threats to fight the police.
A Plainfield man allegedly contacted a woman more than 700 times on her cellphone and her workplace between March 3 and March 13. Prosecutors alleged the man is defiant of the police and court orders.