A 20-year-old man shot at police before fleeing on foot from a traffic stop in Joliet Township early Wednesday, police said

A Glendale Heights man who worked as a chef is facing a charge of the 2023 attempted murder and aggravated battery of a Joliet police officer who responded to his 911 call.

A semitrailer driver has been charged in Will County with threatening another semitrailer driver with a handgun following a road rage incident in Elwood, court records show.

A retired Will County judge filed his appearance in a Grundy County special prosecutor case on behalf of an attorney who was recently arrested after he was accused of domestic battery of a child.

Krystal L. Dean, 39, of Joliet, was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals and violation of owner duties under the Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act, according to Joliet police.

A Romeoville woman accused of stealing almost $136,000 from Walmart has been placed on electronic monitoring after she failed to appear in court for more than a year while on cash bail release. 

A Will County judge has ordered a New Lenox to remain in jail after he was accused of possessing a cellphone containing about 100 files of child sex abuse materials.

A Joliet man has been charged with firing a gun in a “reckless manner” which "endangered” the safety of residents near Rowell Avenue and Linden Avenue, court records show.

Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow said the “alleged circumstances” involving a former Plainfield fire chief suspected of misappropriating public resources “did not rise to the level of a criminal offense.”