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The Disability Pride Event in Joliet was meant to remind people that “to be disabled means to be part of a community of fighters,” said Riley Spreadbury.
A driver traveling through the east side of Joliet is expected to survive after he was shot in the head and leg by an “unknown pedestrian” in the area, police said.
Metra customers are now required to carry their e-bikes and e-scooters on and off the train without the assistance of electric motors.
Employees were able to evacuate safely from the Lockport building following a fire on Sunday.
Defense attorneys Jordan Kielian and Dan Walsh have filed their appearances in cases involving a Will County State's Attorney's Office employee charged with misconduct that endangered witnesses.
The felony charges were filed against Amy Burgett-Masse, 44, and Ryanne Burgett-Masse, 20, both of Elwood, following an investigation of computer tampering and official misconduct.
The sister of a Joliet woman who was murdered in 2023 told her killer in court on Tuesday that he is "an evil person with a dark soul."
Will County officials confirmed members of the Texas National Guard are using a training site south of Joliet to prepare for deployment in Chicago.
A 74-year-old woman is expected to survive getting struck by a vehicle outside a Joliet Walmart and the driver who hit her remains under investigation, police said.
A Joliet man has been charged with threatening to come to Joliet City Hall with a handgun and shoot people, police said.
At 1:30 p.m. Sunday, officers responded to the crash on the westbound lanes of I-80 at milepost 138, according to a statement from Illinois State Police.
A Joliet police lieutenant put on leave last July for an ongoing city inspector general investigation was found in 2024 to have violated departmental policy by shooting at a fleeing vehicle, city records show.
A preliminary investigation indicates a man on a skateboard was heading south on Heggs Road when he was struck by a gray Nissan Rogue traveling in the same direction, police said.
A man in Joliet is expected to survive a gunshot wound to the groin, police said.
A Will County judge has set what she called a “firm trial date” in a 2018 murder case against a former Joliet teacher after telling attorneys the case has “taken entirely too long.”