Stories about Shorewood, Illinois
“It’s not like they come out of the ground and you hear this gigantic, deafening sound. They need time to complete their life cycle," said Nancy Kuhajda, program coordinator at the University of Illinois Extension in Will County, in describing the emergence of cicadas.
Jeffrey Santora, 50, of Shorewood, has been identified as the motorcycle passenger who was killed in a crash involving a school bus in Troy Township.
Melissa Aud-Headlee, 35, and mother of three children, was killed in Saturday - the day before Mother's Day - in front of her Joliet home by her estranged husband Michael “Mikey” Aud-Headlee, 32, of Carmi.
Chicago Street Farmers Market will feature local vendors, fresh vegetables and artisans on Saturday, its opening day of the 2024 season.
River Road bridge project will shut down traffic up to 15 minutes at 1 a.m. on four nights.
The 16-mile I-80 project through parts of Will County will result in three lanes in each direction instead of the original plan to keep it at two lanes with auxiliary lanes to ease access at interchanges.
New schedule not yet announced for River Road bridge project.
On Saturday, The Curator’s Café in Joliet hosted its second Artist Coffee Talk. This is a drop-in and informal gathering of artists of any and all mediums and skills to network and discuss their works.
Traffic will be completely stopped for up to 15 minutes at 1 a.m. on two nights.
A fourth grade student at Trinity Christian school in Shorewood was chosen to be this week's Friday Forecaster on WGN Morning News.
Repairs are taking place on Interstate 80 in Will County after police responded to multiple vehicles with tires damaged from potholes.
The $1.1 million project consists of repairing the bridge deck, approaches and structural steel, installing a new deck overlay and resurfacing.
Will County prosecutors requested the detainment of a man charged with identity theft because he "may be associated with a malicious force that intends to inflict harm on the citizens of the [U.S.]," court records show.
Her Coffee and Conversations will be 10 a.m. to noon at the doughnut and coffee shop located at 3043 Theodore St.
The Hippity-Hop Easter Egg Hunt, which was held on Saturday at the Shorewood retirement community, featured more than 7,000 eggs filled with candy,