The Illinois State Police responded to a shooting at around 5:30 p.m. Monday on Interstate 80 at the westbound entrance to Interstate 355 in New Lenox.

A former Joliet city employee claims in a lawsuit that a former city manager and two others fired her in 2022 in retaliation for exercising her rights under the Family Medical Leave Act.

A Joliet police investigation has led to the suspension of a ministry of a priest from a Canadian Catholic society but officials have not revealed the exact circumstances that prompted the investigation.