Bob Okon

City staff has proposed raising local fuel taxes in Joliet to 5 cents a gallon for gasoline and 11 cents a gallon on diesel fuel next year.

A man is in custody after keeping himself barricaded inside his Plainfield Township home for about two hours on Friday. Joliet, Plainfield and Will County police responded after getting a 911 call from a woman inside the home.

Joliet Mayor D'Arcy holds off on denial of liquor license for BP station near Houbolt Road.

Southern Will County residents are trying to stop 3,600 acre solar energy complex.

City looks to make changes in 2016 health plan.

Joel Brodsky, ex-attorney of convicted murderer Drew Peterson, says he wants to talk about an error of "constitutional magnitude" in murder trial. A Will County judge on Wednesday refused to lift a gag order.

Stays ahead of Michelle Stiff by 1,030 votes after late-arriving mail-in ballots are tallied.

New insurance coverage would only affect non-union employees.

Three incumbents file for reelection along with six others seeking council seats in April.

Joliet Planning Director Jim Torri on Friday is wrapping up a 34-year career with the city that started with an internship out of college in 1990.

The three at-large Joliet City Council positions will be on the ballot on April 1 when elections are held for city councils, village boards, school boards and most local elected offices.

The village of Manhattan has signed on to a lawsuit aimed at hemming in a potential 4,000-acre NorthPoint Development warehouse project.

Workshops will include family fun attractions.

Knights of Columbus in Joliet invites public to Mass in November in memory of two chaplains who died in war and also to honor local veterans.

Former Councilman Mike Turk and Rev. Wendell Martin appointed to Joliet Plan Commission. The City Council approved the appointments made by Mayor Terry D’Arcy.