Bob Okon

Starting Sunday, the Herald-News will again be publishing seven days a week.

Joe Turk says there were fireworks before Memorial Stadium, and Jefferson Street was a mess back then.

The Joliet project to bring Lake Michigan water to the city and surrounding communities is getting notice.

COVID-19 relief money is needed by some but not by all.

The Link family tells of days of ice skating and camping out at the old homestead on Route 6: 'It was like paradise.'

The city of Joliet and state of Illinois continue to negotiate a lease, or maybe change of ownership, for the Old Joliet Prison.

Rialto improvements, downtown development, I-80 upgrades and even an Olive Garden restaurant are becoming reality.

Joliet and Elwood have been at odds over the NorthPoint issue since 2018.

Court battles may tie up NorthPoint, but should they freeze out everyone else?

Mayor Bob O'Dekirk says financial numbers for the city are the best in at least 10 years.

William Evans, who will be sworn in Tuesday as police chief, confirmed that he has a personal relationship with Tamara Cummings, general counsel for the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council.

Name of appointee kept off of Joliet City Council agenda before the vote.

Council agenda does say who the mayor has in mind, but he made attorney Sean P. Connolly, the lawyer who produced missing video report in Eric Lurry case, a special inspector general last year.

The welcome mat sometimes is rolled back for tax-exempt social agencies and even the Diocese of Joliet.

Let's take a look at some of the things the city did not get done in 2021. Will they do it in 2022?

Joliet created an inspector general role in 2016 that has been handled in staff. Now an outside firm will be hired. But who and how?

Joliet City Council Bettye Gavin voted for city manager a year ago warning she's be 'watching' him and switched vote last month when Capparelli's contract was renewed.

Hiring of a “public relations manager” is one issue in 2022 budget debate.

No one ever really promised you a Rt. 53 moratorium.

It’s not the alley this time.

Non-NorthPoint warehouse plan back on the city agenda.

Votes could be coming on citizens review board for police and single-family rental inspections.

What’s next for Ex-Chief Dawn Malec?

Joliet has had one applicant for a crossing guard job in the past year.

Building permit revenue could double for a second consecutive year.

The more things change, the more our drawbridges stay the same.

The police review board, Airbnbs, and a good book are getting a look at City Hall.

For a second time this year, neighbors say aren’t getting straight answers from City Hall

Terri Coleman sees art in that concrete monster

Taking it to the people can be hard when the people don’t answer the door

Houbolt Road bridge and Chicago Street reopening are momentous if they work

Judge ruled it’s hard to make a legal case now that trucks and warehousing are a nuisance.

Not all of it has to be spent on city government

Lion Electric’s Joliet announcement created some confusion in Joliette, Quebec.

Thanks to state pet store bill, although the governor still has to sign it

Mark Grabavoy may have a great idea, but someone had to set some ground rules.

Electric bus and truck manufacturer puts the local logistics boom in a new perspective

The city sells a parking deck to John Bays. Was it a good idea?

The war of the words is loud as Bobby Rush and Doug Jenco vie for the attention of the governor

Guerrero wins an at-large council seat previously seen as a barrier to minority representation

The apparent winners don’t look likely to shake things up, but it ain’t quite over yet

Local elections are Tuesday when we'll find out if interest perked up this year.

Building bridges isn't easy in the Joliet area, and neither is maintaining them.

The Senor Tequila building awaiting demolition had a fonder place in the hearts of the people of Joliet as the old D'Amico's restaurant.