Bob Okon

The rally in downtown Joliet on Thursday drew more than 100 people, an older crowd that joined a nationally organized 'Good Trouble Lives On’ movement.

Mayor D'Arcy said Joliet needs more apartments if it wants a residency rule requiring newly hired workers to move into the city.

The Joliet Slammers will partner with Pabst beer to drop 2,600 packaged hot dogs to fans at the July 22 game. Tickets will be at a special price.

The fast-food giant already is renovating a former Arby's on Rt. 59 in Joliet and plans to take over another former Arby's on Jefferson Street as it maps out a return to the Chicago region.

The operating profit may have been the first in the theater's 99-year history, Executive Director Wade Welsh told the Joliet City Council on Monday.

One lane on Essington Road in Joliet will be closed through Friday.

A contract for supervisors in the Joliet Fire Department includes the same 50-mile rule allowing city workers to live outside Joliet.

City officials, family members and others gathered on Friday, July 11, 2025 for a ceremony to dedicate Albert Avenue in honor of Staff Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., who grew up on the Joliet street and died earlier this year during a training mission in Lithuania.

The accidents happened in sections of Orland Park and Tinley Park that are in Will County.

The family of Staff Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr. was joined by city officials and roughly 100 residents outside his boyhood home in Joliet for a ceremony dedicating Albert Avenue in his honor on Friday.

Joliet has provided nearly $210,000 so far to restaurants, bars and other small businesses to offset impact of construction from $20 million downtown improvement project.

Diane Matter is the second neighbor of the future Love's truck stop in Joliet to say they were offered $100,000 to annex into the city and keep quiet about it.

Christine Johnson told the Joliet City Council it's time remove a ban that keeps her husband and another former guard at the old Joliet Correctional Center off the prison grounds.

Many city workers already live outside Joliet since a residency rule was eliminated in 2009 before being reinstated in 2016 for union employees.

The city announced that the Black Road-Ruby Street connection at 6 corners will be closed starting Tuesday for ongoing water main work.