Joliet police reported that officers found the victim in the front yard of a residence in the 200 block of Nicholson Street.

A firearm instructor from Frankfort has been charged with issuing a false concealed carry firearm training certification in exchange for $300.

A Bolingbrook man has been sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison for drug-induced homicide in Aurora. The man sold fentanyl pills to an Aurora man who died after ingesting one pill.

An Illinois National Guard staff sergeant from South Elgin has been charged in Will County with official misconduct by looking up someone’s license plate for no “official purpose.”

Peter Strama, 22, was taken to the jail on Thursday after his arrest by the Will County Sheriff’s Office.

A judge found a Plainfield Township man guilty of the first-degree murder of a girlfriend who was brutally beaten to death in 2018 in Romeoville.

A 17-year-old who was stabbed Sunday at Riverwalk Homes in Joliet has died, Joliet police said

A security guard at Anthony’s Restaurant & Pub in Joliet was struck in the face and bit during an altercation with two patrons, police said. 

A Joliet police officer on patrol heard the sound of an animal crying and saw a man punching and kicking a pit bull while it was lying on the ground, a police spokesman said.