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The Forest Preserve District of Will County is seeking participants for its volunteer morning program, gathering seeds for future restoration efforts or clearing brush to give native plants room to grow.

No citations were issued to the semitrailer driver involved in the deadly crash in Will County. The intersection where the crash occurred only has stop signs on South Center Road.

A woman was killed in a crash near Peotone in Will County after her vehicle was struck by a semitrailer, police said.

A 45-year-old man who jumped off an inbound train in Elwood is expected to survive after he suffered injuries that led to the amputation of both legs.

The Will County Forest Preserve District is hosting a program at the Braidwood Dunes and Savanna in Reed Township on Saturday, July 27

The body was identified Tuesday evening as Chicago pastor Warren Beard, 53, who was was last seen July 2 in Joliet, Will County Coroner Laurie Summers said.

A school bus driver issued a citation for failure to reduce speed to avoid a crash on Interstate 55 in Will County that involved two other school buses and left 10 children with minor injures.

A Will County judge ordered the pretrial release of a Braidwood man charged with meeting who he thought as a teenage girl at a forest preserve in Wilmington. He must be on GPS monitoring and stay off the internet as a condition of release.

Thanksgiving has been an official holiday in the U.S. since 1863, and the people of Joliet have found ways to celebrate the occasion ever since.

Mary Martha Thompson was born just a month before the end of World War I and grew up on a Will County farm.

A Braidwood man was accused of using a piece of lumber to strike another man, who was also arrested on a charge of possessing a stolen gun.

A retired Will County judge’s son was back in jail on charges that alleged he falsely reported a female had a knife to her throat.

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K9s for Veterans provides and helps train service dogs for veterans and aims to help veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder transition back to civilian life

A Custer Park man stands charged in Will County with concealing the death of a 44-year-old man who died from a methamphetamine intoxication by dumping his body in a wooded area in Kankakee County.

Matthew Gosz, 24, of St. Charles, was booked into the Will County jail after his arrest in Braidwood. His bond has been set at $250,000.

Constellation’s Fishing for a Cure Tournament on Braidwood Lake raised more than $57,000 for Advocate Children’s Hospital last month, bringing the tournament’s 21-year fundraising total to more than $750,000.

Schools in New Lenox, Braidwood see COVID-19 outbreaks, IDPH reports

No tornadoes were reported following the National Weather Service’s warning late Monday for part of southwestern Will County, but more bad weather could be on the way.

A lawsuit has been filed against Braidwood Mayor Robert Jones over a 2019 car crash that led to his second conviction of driving under in the influence in Will County.

Joseph Vercellotti is a Korean War veterand and a ‘real American hero,’ nephew said

Starting point in Chicago. First stop Miller’s Pub on Wabash. Historical stops at Dell Rhea Chicken Basket in Willowbrook, White Fence Farm in Romeoville

The Braidwood mayor on Monday surrendered himself to serve his jail sentence after he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in connection with a three-vehicle crash in 2019.

COVID-19 was cited as the reason Braidwood’s mayor was not taken to jail Friday to serve his sentence for driving under the influence, and his case was continued to April for another hearing, prosecutors said.

Tabitha Ledwa and David Zauratsky

A judge sentenced the Braidwood mayor to eight days in jail and two years of conditional discharge after he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and driving an uninsured motor vehicle.

Braidwood Mayor Bob Jones was driving with a 30-year-old woman and her 9-year-old daughter when he was involved in a three-car crash that led to his arrest last November for driving under the influence, according to Illinois State Police reports.

Braidwood Mayor Bob Jones pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, court records show.

Braidwood Mayor Bob Jones’ November 2019 arrest on a charge of driving under the influence wasn’t his first.

On Nov. 25, 2008, Jones was charged with two counts of DUI, according to Will County court records. He pleaded guilty to one count a month and a half later. The second count was dropped.

On Friday, following a six-month investigation, the Braidwood Police Department arrested Colin West, 26, of Gardner on charges of drug-induced homicide

The mayor of Braidwood was arrested by Illinois State Police on probable cause of driving under the influence after he was involved in a three-car crash near Wilmington, police said.

Mayor Bob Jones, 58, was the driver of a white 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe that rear-ended a blue 2013 Chevrolet Cruz, which then rear-ended a white 2003 Chevrolet sedan, police said.

For Jan. 10, 2018: Note to readers: Information in Police Reports is obtained from local police departments and the Grundy County Sheriff’s Department. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proved guilty in court.

Members of the Growing Parks Strong committee and supporters of the Joliet Park District referendum watched with anticipation Tuesday night at Traditions Restaurant and Pub as election results poured in

The referendum asks Braidwood residents to pay an additional 0.2069 percent of their homes’ equalized assessed value to help pay for a retirement fund the city has been supporting for the past 13 years