Joliet, IL News

• Joliet, IL News
• From housing boom to housing bust, Will County residents doing their best to pick up the pieces
• The goat-to guys for cancer research
• Investigators look for cause of house fire
• Agencies investigate fatal accident
• Plainfield man gets 2 1/2 years for threatening to kill Jewish man
• Ex-cop gets probation for stealing from police charity
• Southwest Police Blotter
• Celebrating Memorial Day across the area
• Micro distillery to open in Plainfield
• Yorkville seeks grant for downtown lighting
• Dog saves Plainfield family from house fire
• Troy School Board OKs summer reading program
• Lunch prices to rise in Troy schools
• Teens collect soles for needy souls
• Illinois House passes bill to cut $1.6 billion from Medicaid
• Jobless rate in Chicago area falls to 9 percent in April
• Brian Stanley: Whatever its origin, ‘Taps’ a moving tribute
• Police Blotter: Fire damages townhouse in Shorewood
• Surveillance film helps police nab beef thief suspect
• Foreclosure another obstacle for recovering alcoholics and addicts
• Memorial Day to delay trash pickup in Joliet
• Caterpillar revises contract proposal for Joliet machinists
• Boy, 11, accused of trying to sell pot at Joliet school
• Ex-cop gets probation for stealing from police charity
• U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald: I won’t ever run for elective office
• Aurora man’s death ruled accident
• Guilty verdict in murder of East Aurora soccer star
• Ceremonies, parades on tap to honor the fallen
• Manley says she is staying in legislative race
• Push for the Path off to good fundraising start in Yorkville
• Biggert seeks expanded domestic violence bill
• Chicago Sun-Times owner Wrapports buys the Reader
• Tabler Road truck traffic concerns Minooka residents
• Valley View offering free meals over the summer
• Goin’ green at JJC
• Gas prices drop in time for Memorial Day travel; hotels, airfares rise
• Silver Cross honors volunteers for their work
• Strip mall sale to diocese concerns Crest Hill City Council
• Private-public electronic billboards make debut
• Sephora to open in Joliet’s J.C. Penney
• Police Blotter: 4 teens charged in Bolingbrook robbery
• Then & Now: 145 W. Main St., Braidwood
• Weber and Renwick roads project to start
• Area teachers rally against  proposed cuts to pension plans
• Plano man accused of fondling family member
• Counterfeit $50 bill seized at Yorkville bank during deposit
• Expect busy llinois tollways this Memorial Day weekend
• Poll: Making Joliet downtown vibrant
• House passes bill allowing Chicago casino — but vote not veto-proof
• Will Co. Forest Preserve director gets one-day suspension
• Illinois lawmakers: Protect job applicants’ Facebook passwords
• Sentencing delayed for Joliet man convicted of 2009 murder
• City Hall releases blueprint for upgrading Union Station
• Even the motions in Drew Peterson murder case are getting snarky now
• Minooka High rejects fees for sports and activities
• Bridge issue delays Black Road jurisdiction transfer
• Shorewood board takes care of business
• Quinn calls indicted state rep’s awarding of tuition waivers ‘one more blot’ on the program
• Police: Motorcyclist thrown from Eisenhower onto Kennedy in fatal crash
• Joliet fire captain to become fire chief in Acton, Mass.
• Fish for a Cure benefits area food pantries
• Slammers: City of defending champions
• Police Blotter: Candy truck goes up in flames on I-80
• Yorkville reverses electric aggregation vote
• Fatal-crash driver twice over legal limit
• Joliet Township man slain
• Cross to host children’s fair
• Judge: Accused killer’s confession can be used in trial
• Valley View girls can enroll in science program
• House OKs bill to allow recording police
• Company working to fix pipeline leak in Manhattan Township
• Slammers’ games to be available online
• Joliet City Council chambers to get makeover
• Flaming candy truck carrying Snickers and M&Ms closes I-80
• Flaming candy truck carrying Snickers and M&Ms closes I-80
• L-Way transition program benefits student, Provena
• Illinois congressional delegation speaks at the level of high school juniors, study finds
• Micro distillery to open in Plainfield
• Warrior Dash organizers to pay Channahon for police coverage
• Cub Scout dies as result of fall
• Thanas: Community effort needed to revitalize downtown Joliet
• Knights to sponsor Cruise-Ins
• Bail set for five charged in attack
• Sales Associates at RE/MAX Realty of Joliet Saluted for 2011 Success in Real Estate Sales
• Poll: NATO protesters heard?
• Woman’s suspicious behavior leads to closure of Joliet streets
• Cops: Couple try to steal lawnmower
• Joliet Diocese joins birth control challenge
• Bail set for five in attack at Tinley restaurant; two victims also charged
• New talks set in Caterpillar strike
• Latino group protests union official’s support for detention center
• Yorkville preparing for intense REC Center debate
• Lockport boy dies as result of fall
• Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Illinois redistricting
• Source: Group beaten at Tinley Park restaurant were white supremacists
• Bolingbrook woman killed in motorcycle-vs.-truck crash
• Will County starts mosquito monitoring for West Nile virus
• 9-year-old Will County boy dies from head trauma
• Golf outing to benefit Make-A-Wish
• Plainfield photo opportunity
• Plainfield teen takes first in state firefighting competition
• Police Blotter: One dead in I-55 crash
• State bill targets agenda details from meetings
• Kendall approves highway contracts
• Harvey man arrested, another sought in Mokena burglary
• Manhattan looks to savings through electricity aggregation
• New Lenox schools to be on Facebook
• Funding OK’d for day care centers
• Joliet makes name for itself in paintball world
• JJC ‘Plus 50’ helps get people back to work
• State House hopeful Manley expected to stay in race, despite arrest
• New Lenox man honored as Realtor of Year
• Plainfield Rotary to host golf outing
• State restores funding for low-income day care program
• Joliet fire victim identified
• Funeral services set for Bolingbrook drowning victim
• Senate Democrats’ spending plan offers deeper cuts than Quinn proposed
• Kendall fairground wants new liquor license for expanded events
• Local police raise money for Special Olympics
• Southwest police blotter
• Birthday party a Relay for Life walk fundraiser
• Strawberry Jazz Fest scheduled for June 3
• New Lenox School Board opposes pension shift
• Police Blotter: Man facing charges after allegedly touching woman
• Police officers remembered in Minooka
• Joliet-area commuters wary of NATO protests
• Manhattan-New Lenox TRIAD to host program
• 3 charged with robbing high school students
• Poll: The Slammers
• Drew Peterson murder trial to start at the end of July
• Child, 3, dies in Joliet Township house fire
• Joliet hopes water bill move boosts customer service
• National paintball event comes to Joliet this weekend
• Bolingbrook drowning victim, 11, remembered as ‘a sweet angel’
• Manville to replace Sass when he retires as New Lenox school superintendent
• Caterpillar, union to meet with federal strike mediator
• Romeoville to seek grant for Route 53 beautification
• Silver Cross celebrates employees
• ComEd offers assistance with energy bills
• New Will County drug court seeks to help veterans
• Census: Minorities now surpass whites in U.S. births
• Poll: Boost online gambling?
• Illinois House honors Sox great Pierce
• Center to offer class on homebuying
• Then & Now: Joliet Union Station
• Family: Groom wanted in wife’s murder made odd phone call
• Kendall coroner gets small pay hike, but still below other officials
• Kendall Board opposes plan to shift tax fund to teacher retirement
• Returning to scene of crime trips up suspect
• Busloads of protesters head to Chicago for NATO Summit
• Lincoln-Way-area veterans host fundraiser car show
• New drug court seeks to help veterans
• Tollway emergency program seeking sponsor
• Tax switch slows down
• Foundation for L-Way elects board
• Tractor Adventure volunteers sought
• Makeover for path where L-Way student was killed; Saturday fundraiser set
• Joliet approves tobacco license
• Joliet objects to state plan to divert money to pensions
• Police: Girl, 11, dies after being pulled from Bolingbrook pond
• Girl, 11, hospitalized after pulled from Bolingbrook pond
• Officers, firefighters to be honored
• Baldermann lashes out at video gambling process
• Police: Pedestrians need to stay off River Road Bridge
• After long discussion, Kendall board keeps salaries the same
• Annual ecological festival at JJC is green and growing
• Kendall County considers starting bike trail fund
• Accused killer wants confession tossed
• Joliet Diocese move doesn’t sit well with City Hall
• Plainfield gets update on proposed I-55 interchanges
• Merchandise heir Field speaks to Will County Community Foundation
• Veteran Plainfield cop back on the job
• New Lenox offers some help in ash borer battle
• Many employers plan a typical day at the office during NATO Summit
• Kendall considering starting bike trail fund
• Senior housing proposal in New Lenox may be doomed
• New Lenox Village Board honors scholastic bowl team
• Problems for Hillcrest continue
• Voters informed of program
• Kendall to vote on coroner, board pay proposals
• Poll: Same-sex matrimony in Illinois?
• Frankfort man recognized for community service
• SD 161 projects $1.7M deficit
• 8 protesters arrested at Obama campaign HQ in Chicago
• Foreclosure sparks protest at Plainfield mortgage office
• Ron Paul: ‘We will no longer spend resources’ campaigning
• Area schools honored with Earth Flag awards
• Romeoville to require inspections of rental properties
• Quinn: Illinois pension, Medicaid reform a rescue operation
• Joliet students get a feel for the right fields at career fair
• Motorcycle crash claims life of Bolingbrook man
• Pulse: Caterpillar workers’ rally attracts some big names
• Police blotter
• Students get a feel for the right fields at career fair
• Pulse: Rally attracts some big names
• Minooka police to host bike rodeo and auction
• Manhattan man remembered as family man, craftsman
• Boil order issued for Joliet-area town
• Police Blotter: Fire sweeps through empty house
• Police make gun, DUI arrests in Joliet
• Fashion show at Al’s
• St. Joe to present Powerful Women program
• Manhattan man dies under vehicle in Joliet junkyard accident
• Homer Glen bans video gambling
• Joliet Central JROTC team on to championship
• Will County Neighborhood Stabilization Progam honored
• Homer Glen man earns Golden Microphone
• Metra to close some stations, ban food and drink during NATO
• Yorkville seeks state help with downtown lighting
• Kendall may ask auditor to examine payments made to board member
• Joliet Diocese to be moving to Weber Road location
• Striking Caterpillar workers rally at Joliet plant
• Morris High School staging senior play
• Silver Cross honors doctors for service
• Sunny Hill honors top volunteer
• Lemont man guilty of molesting teen
• Two pulled from Heideke Lake after boat capsizes
• Curtis empowering students  culturally through TAP program
• Southwest police blotter
• Energy transmission line to mean money for Grundy County
• Crest Hill OKs balanced budget
• Shorewood OKs road projects
• FedEx breaks ground on Romeoville facility
• Police Blotter: Burglar makes away with memorabilia
• Tourism helping local economy, officials say
• Local police pay tribute to fallen comrades
• Elwood street to be closed Monday
• Yorkville gets requests to manufacture guns in city
• USF president will retire in 2013
• Man faces child porn charges
• Kendall seeks grant for nature museum
• Jewelry becomes new again for metalsmith instructor
• Court rules in favor of ex-director on amount of severance pay
• Morris votes to allow video poker machines
• Bikers invited to Ride the Rock
• Lemont man wins award for his volunteer service
• Fourth-grader wins state poster contest
• DuPage River preservation plan presented to Shorewood Village Board
• Moves may bring two new businesses to Shorewood
• Shorewood advances electric aggregation program
• Governors State student charged with child porn
• Police blotter: Parolee kept pair at gunpoint, cops say
• Oh, no you didn’t: Will break and enter for bottles of wine, food
• New Mokena market seeks ‘community’ feel
• Ride of Silence to be Wednesday
• Then & Now: The Braidwood Fire Department
• Yorkville High to host first Suicide Prevention Walk at school on Friday
• Yorkville council goes against electricity referendum
• Yorkville, YMCA continue talks about REC Center
• Candidate for state representative arrested
• St. Joe’s auxiliary holding fashion show
• Poll: Obama correct about gay marriage?
• Study: Fatality risk for teen drivers higher with multiple young passengers
• Obama voices his support for gay marriage
• Illinois House votes to yank free health care from state retirees
• We Care food pantry helps thousands
• Audit: Big problems in Illinois college tuition savings plan
• Police Blotter: Man dies when vehicle strikes semi truck
• Big carts boost Joliet recycling numbers
• Hip leads chief to step down early
• Striking Caterpillar workers plan rally Friday
• Day cares struggling with funding dilemma
• Speedway seeks to give back to community
• Letter carriers hold food drive
• Drew Peterson’s trial won’t be made-for-TV
• Field Museum to stay open May 19, 21 despite NATO Summit
• Commuter files fraud suit against Metra, says tickets shouldn’t expire
• Field Museum to stay open May 19, 21 despite NATO Summit
• In video, Sen. Mark Kirk says he’s anxious to get back to work
• Kendall Board sets salary for circuit clerk
• Drew Peterson doesn’t want jurors to hear about Stacy’s disappearance
• History teacher pens history of I&M Canal
• Will County cemetery added to historic list
• Like mother, like daughter
• Route 59 traffic initiative planned
• Poll: NATO protests
• Channahon eyed for wind energy station
• Kendall allocates  senior services funds
• Doctor to give seminar on ins, outs of menopause
• Army Corps quickens pace on Asian carp study
• Cops: Man used iron to force son’s confession
• School dedicates flag flown in Afghanistan
• Burnett visit to be special for Joliet couple
• Sprint says tower upgrades to ease dropped-call problems
• Joliet police tell students texting and driving don’t mix
• Donors sought for June 2 blood drive in Minooka
• Poll: Ignore missing Stacy Peterson?
• Frankfort restaurant may be moving
• Police: Thieves tries to sell stolen laptop to owner’s co-worker
• Is Midway Airport privatization deal back in the works?
• Manhattan firefighter killed in crash
• Storms bring flood warnings
• Romeoville clears way for future farmer’s market
• Improvement seen in Minooka’s fortunes
• Minooka High School Board mulls fees for sports and clubs
• Man with gun robs food mart
• Conference focuses on positive male role models
• Pulse: Walsh Jr. will juggle jobs
• May 15 deadline in Channahon to request larger recycling cart
• Cops seize dope, guns from Homer Glen home
• Training prepares firefighters for real-world challenges
• Heavy rain, thunderstorms expected, flash flood watch issued
• Lockport providing Iraq, Afghan veterans with free steak, golf
• Wheatland Township plans recycling event
• Justice man killed in motorcycle accident
• Police Blotter: Cops seize dope, guns from home
• Volunteers donate food to needy at Joliet Central
• ComEd working on new SmartGrid efforts
• Toys ‘R’ Us outsourcing local transportation jobs
• Drew Peterson returns to Will County court, gets new judge
• Little green bug requires big green spending in Mokena
• Lottery proceeds go to veterans’ support groups
• Festival is community effort
• Southwest Weekly Police Blotter
• Man on a goodwill mission
• YMCA offers camp for kids over summer
• Will County historic group marking its 20th anniversary
• Classroom notes
• D204, teachers have tentative contract agreement
• Teachers’ union in Frankfort OKs wage freeze
• Kendall seeks grant to update nature museum
• Frankfort approves balanced budget
• Former media mogul Conrad Black gets out of prison, facing deportation
• National Day of Prayer observed in Plainfield
• Peterson hearing set for Friday
• Sen. Mark Kirk now home — three months after stroke
• Police blotter: Man killed after being hit by truck
• Participants sought for show about bullying
• Center’s Medicare provider agreement terminated
• Drew Peterson hearing set for Friday in Will County court
• Legislators give voters a say on pensions
• Morris looks to hire police officers
• Morris City Council OKs budget
• Storms could bring hail, high winds tonight and Friday
• Senate votes to abolish scandal-plagued scholarship program
• Media makes case for cameras in Kendall, Kane courtrooms
• Future lookes bright in Morris, mayor says
• JT hazing allegations reportedly involve soccer team
• Produce project set for RidgePort development
• State: Joliet prison won’t be used for NATO summit
• Joliet housing chief off on leave
• Driver lost in the fields
• Then & Now: The Texaco plant, Lockport
• Car show coming Saturday to The Promenade
• Beacon, other media make case for cameras in court
• Forum addresses ‘the devil’ — heroin
• Poll: Political scholarships
• Coroner: Lincoln-Way Central student died of natural causes
• Driver charged in fatal Yorkville crash
• Man arrested in threats against Lincoln-Way schools
• State revoking license of Joliet nursing home
• Kendall seeks grant to update nature museum
• Fundraiser set for New Lenox fire district’s new rescue dog
• Annual shoe collection is under way
• Middle school students’ bullying video wins contest
• Judge recuses self from animal neglect case after receiving anonymous letter
• Controversial legislative scholarships could be ending soon
• Iconic Gas City cow Elsie moo-ooved
• Kendall Board sets salary for circuit clerk
• Police Blotter: Crash victim identified
• Habitat opens electronics recycling center
• State welfare data shows drop in child abuse cases
• Sun-Times circulation grows, surpasses Tribune as 9th largest
• Chicago Sun-Times papers’ circulation passes Tribune’s
• State takes action against Plainfield investment company
• Cat strikers say they’re taking a stand
• JTHS investigates hazing allegation
• Counties improve air quality
• Ex-Metea teacher gets six years for sex with student
• NIU killing suspect gave conflicting stories, prosecutor says
• Trail cleanup scheduled
• Early Days
• Area gas prices going down, still a half-dollar higher than last year
• Fundraiser set for New Lenox fire district’s new rescue dog
• Frankfort senior apartments: Some tenants have township ties
• State considers allowing  local bus fees
• Police blotter: No license plate leads to drug bust
• Indian Trail choir alumni sought for concert
• Union official says strike nearly certain at Caterpillar Joliet plant
• Larry Walsh Jr. named to replace McGuire
• Kendall man pleads guilty after 911 calls to complain about iPhone
• State steps up for Yorkville sidewalks
• Supreme Court ruling offers hope to imprisoned ex-Gov. Ryan
• Poll: George Ryan prison stay
• Early Days
• Minooka ordinance targets vacant buildings
• Minooka holds line on village budget
• Spending below budget in Minooka Grade School District
• South suburban intersections among Chicago area’s most dangerous
• Gegenheimer to stay in Minooka school post
• Still no answers in case of missing Plainfield mom Lisa Stebic
• Police Blotter: Man involved in crash dies of medical condition
• Caterpillar workers reject latest contract proposal
• Sign deal in works
• ‘Tepid’ economic recovery could last years
• Science fair energizes students
• Pulse: Sod bandits exposed
• National Day of Prayer to be Thursday in Plainfield
• Bargain hunters find deals at old Silver Cross Hospital sale
• Still no answers in Stebic case
• Fire destroys Joliet-area factory
• A special invitation to prom
• Man convicted in group home death of Joliet graduate
• Extension to offer composting program
• Mitchler remembered as father, grandpa, friend, public servant
• More pain pills prescribed in suburbs than Chicago
• Police Blotter: Woman dies in Bolingbrook crash
• Joliet tobacco retailers soon may need licenses
• New Americans take oath
• To Joliet Jail for NATO offenders?
• Democrats plan to name McGuire’s replacement Monday
• Poll: Bears draft
• Fairmont School to focus on positive male images
• Bishop Conlon is commencement speaker for Benedictine University
• Democrats plan to name McGuire’s replacement on Monday
• Mokena SD 159 to hold fundraiser carnival
• New Mokena market seeks ‘community’ feel
• Company decides not to locate in Joliet
• Southwest Police blotter
• Brownie troop makes Humane Society happier
• Police Blotter
• Educators pack Naperville Central to learn about teacher pension funding woes
• River View Elementary pupils learn about Arbor Day at arboretum
• Pet vaccine clinic to be held in Manhattan
• Henry Travis Rejoins Board Representing District 8
• Two fires damage homes in Joliet, Lockport Township
• New Lenox boycott brings lower gas prices
• ARBOR DAY? IT’S TREE-MENDOUS
• Eddy Curry’s son going back to mom who hit him with belt
• Independent living center celebrates success
• Joliet woman guilty of sex with 15-year-old
• Nude Mokena man strikes twice in same day
• New ramp to open at I-55 and Arsenal Road
• Two Minooka schools to swap start times
• ComEd details infrastructure upgrades for Shorewood
• New Lenox boycott brings lower gas prices
• Police Blotter: Officers nab $6,000 of pot in stop
• Then & Now: 808 W. Jefferson St., Joliet
• Repairs to Ruby Street bridge postponed until May 7
• Poll: Late-night TV president
• Developer outlines plans for St. Mary Carmelite Church
• Cardboard child kidnapped
• Troy School Board elects officers
• Trio nabbed when they return to scene of crime
• Giarrante wins Italian-American award
• Teacher pensions subject of town hall meeting in Orland Park
• Frankfort man charged with reckless homicide in fatal 2010 wrecks
• Homemakers group holding meeting
• Commission schedules vote on future of Illinois Youth Center-Joliet
• Applicants are in for McGuire seat
• Expo focuses on helping environment
• Sergeant retires after 25 years
• Newt Gingrich to end presidential campaign next week
• Seniors invited to seminar on safety
• New Lenox again debates senior housing proposal
• New Lenox plans May 12 kickoff for French Market
• Shorewood finalizing plans for Veteran’s Memorial
• Shorewood again named Tree City USA
• Protesters: Parts of I-55, Lake Shore Drive to be closed during NATO summit
• Joliet Catholic launches new website
• Troy School Board OKs member training policy
• Trial starts in death of man in group home
• Bolingbrook police to host prescription drug drop-off
• Mayor calls for boycott of New Lenox gas stations
• Police Blotter: Man arrested for car theft burglary of residence
• Bessler named Manhattan’s director of public works
• Yorkville School Board sticks with officers
• Kendall pulls bonds to help pay for flooding remediation
• Drew Peterson abandons appeal, wants trial date
• Plainfield gets report on state of its roads
• Former Yorkville deputy chief applies for alternative treatment
• Union pickets Caterpillar plant in Joliet
• Crumbling church in need of help
• Kendall board OKs higher per diems
• Plainfield principals switching schools
• Artwork by Plainfield IMSA student to hang in nation’s capitol
• Joliet committee gets update on St. Mary Carmelite plan
• Channahon schools OK hiring of two teachers
• Signing group holding a fundraiser
• Plainfield holds hearing on electricity aggregation
• Minooka High to seek Title 1 grant funds
• Minooka High South Campus closer to getting traffic light
• Kinzinger denounces  airport ‘groundbreaking’
• Waste Management collects 3 times the normal amount of yard waste
• Late resignations give Democratic officials choice of replacements
• Police blotter: Resident electrocuted by overhead wire
• ‘Giant’ sale Saturday at old Silver Cross hospital
• Arbor Day to be marked in Joliet
• Poll: Voters need a voice in replacing legislators?
• Youth volleyball team gathers, returns money
• ComEd aims to deploy 4 million smart meters in next decade
• Judge’s computer login used in attempts to view pornography
• Joliet Twp. H.S. community joins the fight against hunger
• Pulse: Will Co. judge clears air on wife’s union ties
• Event to highlight historic Route 66
• Chicago area residents face frosty Monday morning
• Sentencing rescheduled for man convicted of defrauding investors
• Students, parents, teachers fight hunger
• Police Blotter: Bradley man arrested for shoplifting
• Shale cared about downtown Joliet, people around him
• Event to offer support for families
• Campaign cash rolling in for Foster, Biggert in 11th District race
• Police Blotter: Lemont man dies in apparent electrocution
• Backers, protesters hold competing rallies on airport near Peotone
• Slammers, Joliet still looking for a Silver Cross Field deal
• Guns found during search of Yorkville High School
• Hultgren, Biggert talk trains at Transportation Center
• Sentencing rescheduled for man convicted of defrauding investors
• Board: Don’t close mental health center
• Slammers, Joliet still looking for a deal
• Special Olympian gathers support for run
• Quinn: Raise retirement age to 67 to help fix Illinois pension crisis
• Plainfield chorus sets performance
• 'Even as he got older, he was still a driving force'
• 'Once an Indian, Always an Indian'
• Student florists selling plants
• Morris Hospital to host educational program
• Hultgren, Biggert talk trains at Aurora Transportation Center
• Southwest Police Blotter
• New Lenox School Board OKs health insurance plan
• Downtown Joliet senior housing complex a hit
• Truck driver sues estate of teen killed in WCC crash
• Fermilab open house set for Sunday
• Will County starts monitoring West Nile
• Will Co. Drug Court adopts shelter dog to help recovering addicts
• Senior housing complex a hit
• Business Calendar
• Police Blotter
• Fairmont: Will board OKs plan to fix up ‘distressed community’
• Party leader wants McGuire’s spot filled in April
• Travis ‘proud to be back’ with Will County Board
• Work to start on Plainfield bike path
• Uniting America at the Spanish Community Center
• Plainfield sets public hearings on electric aggregation plans
• Plan offers look at future of Fairmont
• Slammers get time to prepare this season
• Poll: Going to a game?
• Gov. Quinn wants Medicaid cuts, $1-per-pack cigarette-tax hike
• Kendall Animal Control considers new name
• Illinois comptroller fractures hip in fall
• Police operation along Rt. 30 nets 64 arrests in south suburbs
• Romeoville OKs redevelopment plan
• College hosting workshops, carnival for Week of the Young Child
• Lane closures coming for I-80 bridge inspection
• Plainfield to buy shuttered Baci restaurant
• Joliet hopes to lure manufacturer, jobs
• Woman arrested for disorderly conduct
• JJC Spring Scholarship Gala to be Friday
• Is Aurora Blacktop about to close or ‘being restructured?’
• Slammers get time to prepare this season
• Then & Now: Electric Park, Plainfield
• State lawmakers target practice of jailing debtors
• Illinois income taxes jump nearly 32 percent, second-highest in nation
• Morris repeals ordinance targeting pit bulls
• Joliet hopes to lure manufacturer, jobs
• Westfield Louis Joliet mall sold
• $50K bond for Mokena man charged with arson in Orland Park fire
• Poll: getting withheld money back?
• Fifth-grader wins Tar Wars poster contest
• JTHS joins the IHSA TV network
• Morris amends TIF revenue distribution formula for schools
• Shorewood family keeps telethon tradition alive after losing son
• Joliet to celebrate Arbor Day
• Man charged with selling contraband cigarettes
• Kids committed to giving back
• Family keeps telethon tradition alive after losing son
• City unloads Splash Station
• Illinois lawmakers target practice of jailing debtors
• Joliet looks to hire police
• Chicago cop ticketed for pitbull attack that killed small dog
• Slammers lower some ticket prices, hike some food prices
• Ill. lawmakers target practice of jailing debtors
• Abandoned dog finds home helping recovering Will County drug users
• Man gets 60 years for gunning down ex-wife outside Oak Brook hotel
• Pet lover recovering from brain injury needs some attention of her own
• Party raises money for path, downtown profile for Yorkville
• Kendall board supports increase in meeting pa
• Metra lines won’t close during NATO summit
• Cops: Street sweeper in fatal Orland crash cited for running red light
• Channahon police, fire donate AED for retirement community
• Plainfield seeking historic downtown designation
• Poll: Changing the downtown landscape
• 5K to help fund scholarship memorializing New Lenox teen
• Families get help from food pantry
• Truck tips over, closing tollway ramp near New Lenox
• Blood test could detect depression in teenagers
• Drew Peterson is down in the dumps after court ruling on evidence
• Students can Draft-A-Bill
• Rescue group uses mini horses to raise spirits
• Chicago Street may open up
• Joliet Township band seeking stories for 100th anniversary celebration
• Black Road resurfacing to begin
• Bald eagles nesting in Palos Township forest preserve
• Poll: Rasing minimum wages
• Mokena woman gets spin at ‘Wheel of Fortune’
• New Mokena market seeks ‘community’ feel
• Joliet Hobby Lobby workers benefit from company’s latest pay hike
• Man dies after being hit by train in Joliet Township
• Former Steak & Shake waitress named Joliet Telecommunicator of the Year
• Pulse: McGuire gives Joliet Exchange Club progress report
• Party Nov. 6 ballot positions to be drawn Thursday
• Wild weather night expected; strong winds, hail, ‘downpours’ possible
• Kids’ kicks help P.E. programs
• Southwest Police Blotter
• Autopsy: Sixth-grader hit by ball died of cerebral hemorrhage
• ComEd to host open house in Lockport
• Familiar face in running to lead at Union School
• Hundreds attend rally against heroin use in Will Co.
• Blago’s brother heads to D.C. to talk about Senate seat controversy
• Lockport man gets 30 years for killing elderly father
• Joliet Dem alleges deals made in McGuire replacement plan
• Men cook up delicacies for charity
• State moves up West Nile testing date by two weeks
• Some allege back-room politics
• Addict: It’s never too late to get help
• Road to recovery from heroin addiction includes relapses
• 360 Resale ready for business
• Work to require lane closures on I-80
• Court allows hearsay evidence against Drew Peterson
• Park board backs Splash Station deal
• Craigslist ad: Aragon bathroom tryst during Megadeth concert led to pregnancy
• 99-year-old woman duct-taped, hit in Romeoville home invasion
• Joliet man guilty of girlfriend’s stabbing death
• Gotta Do It
• Ex-cop pleads guilty to stealing from police charity
• Dine at Heroes to help needy families
• Decision expected by end of month on shutting down rails during NATO
• Tax incentive paves way for Portillo’s in New Lenox
• YMCA sets open house for Healthy Kids Day
• Ex-wife of former Bull Eddy Curry charged with battering child
• Tax incentive pave way for Portillo’s in New Lenox
• Manhattan school’s 911 call goes to Canada
• Experts: Prisons too crowded
• Your junk could be a gold mine
• Guard escorts Marine killed by deputy
• Channahon board pays tribute to public works employees
• Woman posts reward for dog
• Glasgow: Drug court pays off
• Heroin in Will County: ‘We never worried about the consequences’
• Grammer sighting
• Work to start Monday on Route 6 in Joliet
• THEN & NOW
• Expect to pay about 25 cents more for gas this summer over last
• Orland Park man facing charges after crash injures Mokena man
• New Lenox mayor defends proposed senior housing
• Magnitude 7 earthquae shakes buildings in Mexico City
• Yorkville budget: Pay raises, property tax cuts
• NFL’s Ninkovich honored by New Lenox Village Board
• Grammer sighting
• Poll: is ‘Boss’ on your watch list?
• Freeze warning issued for Chicago area
• Presentation addresses trafficking
• New Lenox mayor defends proposed senior housing
• Expec to pay about 25 cents more for gas this summer over last
• Accusations fly at Wheatland Town Meeting
• Police on heroin: ‘The poison brings crime’
• Shorewood OKs permit for new yoga location
• Shorewood study to examine water/sewer needs
• Road project to start Monday in Bolingbrook
• Yorkville approves $500,000 incentive plan for downtown
• ‘The poison brings crime’
• ‘Boss’ films in downtown Joliet
• Poll: Drug users
• Joliet casinos continue revenue slide
• Splash Station control may change
• County Board member questions Kendall health pay hikes
• St. Joe’s doc to address menopause
• New Lenox raises Metra lot parking fees
• Illinois chamber leader calling for lower taxes and reduced spending
• Summit Hill District 161 hikes student fees
• Joliet Cares event set for April 21
• Man dies after Romeoville crash
• Heroin problem only getting worse
• Hopefuls bidding to replace McGuire
• Police Blotter: Man dies in rollover crash
• Briggs Street rail crossing to be closed
• Can suburban mayors serve on county board?
• Poll: Has heroin abuse hit close to home?
• Wisconsin man dies in crash near Frankfort
• Man accused of making fake holdup call
• Heroin leaves deadly mark on Will County
• Kendall: Poster county for nation’s population slowdown
• Troy shredding event to be April 21
• Pulse: Joliet first lady big Deen fan
• Morris patrolman gets kudos
• New restaurant puts off moving into shopping center
• Joliet to look at minority participation
• Joliet Cares to be April 21
• Joliet man hit by squad car dies from injuries
• Energy Efficiency 101: Joliet Junior College going green
• Fire kills 254 hogs at Joliet farm
• Energy Efficiency 101: JJC going green
• Good Friday walk of the faithful covers 7 miles
• Will County to mail tax bills out on May 4
• Minooka Grade School District gets 50K grant from state
• Corvette show, parts swap set
• Dirt from Route 47 widening a concern for Yorkville planners
• IPad helps boy communicate
• Southwest Police Blotter
• Go Green Fair will go on in Yorkville
• State Rep. Jack McGuire announces retirement
• Annual Rock for a Wish set for May 31
• Former USF coach set to speak at youth summit
• Great Read gala slated for April 17
• Prosecutor message to parents, teens: Drugs kill
• Blotter: Woman arrested for credit card fraud
• Ex-con with ties to Naperville charged in heroin case
• ‘Boss’ filming in Joliet delayed until Monday
• Two more opening acts added to Ribfest lineup
• Deen gives Joliet taste of Southern cooking, hospitality
• Workshop set on universal design housing
• Pedestrian struck by Will County police car
• Probation for man who sold stolen goods on eBay
• Empty Crest Hill shopping center to be auctioned off
• Conference at Naperville hotel focuses on minority health issues
• Paula Deen visits Joliet, Silver Cross in New Lenox
• Plainfield hears proposal for hot dog cart
• Food borne bacteria sickens 8 in Illinois, 93 nationwide
• Man booked on sexual abuse of children charges
• Paula Deen visits Joliet
• Hazardous waste and electronics to be collected in Romeoville
• County Board member questions Kendall health pay hikes
• Homer Glen family fights eviction
• Sentencing hearing begins in fatal Balmoral DUI crash
• Poll: Should youth prison close?
• Joliet a hot spot for TV land
• Poll: Should youth jail close?
• 3 charged in wake of chase and standoff in Joliet
• Man charged with biting child’s face, breaking his leg
• WWJ organizes march in support of Martin
• Area Mega Millions players win thousands
• Weaver benefit to be April 22
• Public health officials warn of increased bat activity
• Suspect surrenders after Joliet police surround building
• Joliet a hot spot for TV land
• Ex-Blago aide Lon Monk sentenced to two years in prison
• Crisis calls take personal toll on 911 dispatchers
• Farmer injured when run over by tractor
• Applications available for energy bill aid
• Will County ranks 16th in state for healthiest
• Drivers ed class changes gears at Frankfort dealership
• St. Joe’s gets grant to study fall risks
• Former Joliet residents attacked in apparent robbery
• Plainfield pokes hole in doughnut shop drive-through request
• Plainfield clears way for summer festival
• Joliet clears way for Chipotle, other businesses
• Joliet woman files suit claiming satellite TV installer shoved her
• Plainfield spring cleanup starts April 9
• Homer Glen woman, sons face federal tax charges
• Man kills 7, wounds 3 at Christian university in Oakland
• Officials: 7 dead, 1 detained in university shooting in Oakland
• Joliet clears way for Chipotle, other businesses
• Road into Minooka industrial park to be rebuilt
• Joliet woman files suit claiming satellite TV installer shoved her
• Poll: Political signs
• Release of 1940 Census records strains National Archives website
• Biggert’s office clarifies vote on Violence Against Women Act
• Joliet residents will go green  at GR2012
• Joliet Township students recognize good deeds
• Psychotherapist to speak during community program
• Joliet is Tree City USA for 21st year
• Pulse: Did Biggert vote against renewal of Violence Against Women Act?
• Cherry Hill Road bridge to be closed
• Youmanity tokens encourage kindness
• Students pump iron in memory of teacher
• With an eye on the future, Joliet looks at U.S. Steel, old prison development
• Is IYC-Joliet necessary? Plan to close it the focus of hearing
• Herald-News seeking old photos of area
• 3 winning Mega Millions tickets, and one was sold in Illinois
• Poll: Youth center
• Channahon School District support staff raises approved
• Mayor to candidates: Pick up your signs
• Man charged with threatening to rape neighbor’s wife, daughter
• Mega Millions jackpot up to record $640 million, strains state website
• Chicago man dies in crash; driver charged
• Going bald for Baldrick’s day
• Southwest  Police Botter
• Immaculate Conception D.A.R.E. graduation class
• Bone marrow match drive Saturday
• Yorkville employees getting support for pay hike
• Minooka joins DuPage watershed group
• Trip is a cultural awakening
• Plainfield students win art awards
• Dozens receive diabetes screenings
• Lottery players see jackpot dreams
• Children’s Easter Egg-stravaganza!
• Ex-Tinley Park cop pleads guilty in DUI crash
• Quinn officials will halt prison remodeling
• Herald-News seeking old photos of area
• Joliet hopes new police, fire radio system will be running in fall
• Plainfield schools to cut teacher posts to save $1.1 million
• Art, music show Sunday in downtown Yorkville
• Yorkville debates providing insurance for elected officials
• Summer movie schedule set in New Lenox
• Plainfield teacher a Golden Apple finalist
• Southland hospitals prep for NATO Summit emergencies
• Money seminar is just for women
• Officials say Channahon finances in good shape
• Court appears split by ideology over health care
• Bobby Rush chastised for wearing a hoodie
• Top Blagojevich aide to serve 10 days
• Crash critically injures teen
• Hearing on Tinley Park Mental Health Center is April 10
• Poll: Overturn health care law?
• Housing authority hires decontamination service to deal with dead bodies
• Kendall sheriff gives residents new way to search for sex offenders
• Art, music show Sunday in downtown Yorkville
• Yard waste collection to resume in Joliet
• Bartender at Frankfort pub a champion of the pour
• State Supreme Court says no to Yorkville landfill
• Judge says Blagojevich showed ‘mental instability;’ gives ex-aide 10 days in prison
• Busted Aurora man hoped to meet up with teenage girl
• Mock trials will weigh Mary Todd Lincoln’s sanity
• Tornado season is here — Do you know how to protect yourself?
• NATO summit could shut down rail lines running under McCormick
• Libraries to pull out of consortium, form smaller one
• Plainfield chamber to sponsor expo
• Bartender at Frankfort pub a champion of the pour
• Student wins full-ride scholarship
• Summer movie schedule set in New Lenox
• New Lenox economic development director praised
• New Lenox OKs contract for weed cutting
• Shorewood cuts fees to spur development
• Shorewood OKs balanced budget
• Man gets 9 years for sexually abusing girl
• Law license suspended for child porn conviction
• Police Blotter: Man charged with residential burglary
• Judge rules Plainfield man unfit for trial
• Joliet Township Animal Control center passes surprise inspection
• Plainfield Rotary to host festival
• Seiler-Zigrossi Named To County Board Leadership
• Joliet native writes ebook on happiness
• Allergy sufferers find warm weather something to sneeze about
• Yorkville teen looks to future with donated service dog
• Get your teeth cleaned, help a good cause
• Gasoline prices hit record: $4.67 in Chicago; $4.51 in metro area
• Joliet Township High School students’ robot puts on a show
• Police Blotter: Bogus gift cards land men in jail
• Veterans outreach program to be Thursday
• Naval airman, 91, aloft again
• Lawyer says Lemak likely upset about French TV documentary
• Homeless man charged in Troy Township slaying
• Gasoline prices hit record high: $4.67 in Chicago; $4.51 in metro area
• Crest Hill man convicted on child porn charges
• Joliet man was first to buy lottery ticket online
• Joliet city clerk set to step down
• Limestone Brewery leaving Plainfield for Aurora
• Poll: Airport groundbreaking?
• Drunken driver guilty again 13 years after 10-year-old’s death
• Wilmington City Council at odds with Illiana route
• Crest Hill committee spending questioned
• Police Blotter: New Lenox man arrested for burglary
• Cruise nights to return to Plainfield
• Joliet Easter parade boosts business
• Lewis University dedicates new Science Center
• Pulse: Jackson comment ‘a slap in the face’
• Teachers show their dance moves at fundraiser
• Mobile food pantry to visit Joliet May 5
• At St. Xavier, Hastert still quite the speaker
• Parents sue Silver Cross Hospital after son’s suicide
• Navy veteran gets surprise welcome-home celebration
• 10 graduate from Will County Drug Court
• Diocese of Joliet grounds manager Strysik loved gardening, animals
• Police hold suspect in beating death
• Crisis averted: Housing Authority review finds million-dollar error
• Channahon to hold budget workshop
• Man arrested in Lockport Township slaying
• Crisis averted; Housing Authority review finds million-dollar accounting error
• Joliet retiree makes picking up around the city his project
• Library hosting tribute to the Titanic disaster
• St. Jude students rally against federal mandate to cover contraception
• Morris train victim ID’d as 22-year-old
• Starting Sunday, you can buy your Illinois lottery tickets online
• Poll: Littering
• One ISU student may have died from seizure disorder, coroner says
• Teaching kids ways to feel good about themselves
• USF hosts meal for Daybreak Shelter clients, residents
• Hearing set for proposed closing of Illinois Youth Center-Joliet
• Trace Adkins coming to the Rialto
• Early Days
• Southwest Police Blotter
• Navy veteran gets surprise welcome-home celebration
• Democrat Bill Foster not crazy about new, Democrat-drawn districts
• Weekend cool-down ends summer-like heat wave
• Conservationists eye subdivison, want more like it
• Joliet Grade School Board hears plan for new program
• Expungement workshop to be Monday
• U. of I. president quits
• Group pitches charter school
• Restoring the natural order
• Voters shut down aggregation
• Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center makes top 100 list
• Grab your bonnets for Sunday’s Easter parade
• Investigations into different crimes leads to same suspects
• Poll: Move election to weekend?
• Solo Cup sold for $1 billion
• New Lenox school fun fair to be Saturday
• 2 projects expected to bring jobs to Romeoville
• Spring road projects to start across Will County
• Wilmington residents get look at proposed Illiana path
• Police blotter: Authorities release name of slain man
• Police nab man with stolen ATV
• Will County officials say primary voting went well
• Got cash? Then buy local
• Joliet to evaluate townhip-provided animal control services
• Joliet man accused of filming teen couple having sex
• Cops: Man shot his friend
• Will officials oppose Tinley center closing
• D’Arcy to host free child safety seat check
• Kendall voters reject tax hike  to fund KenCom operations
• Will County officials join call to keep Tinley Park Mental Health Center open
• Groundbreaking for south suburban airport in April?
• Former U.S. House Speaker Hastert to speak at St. Xavier University
• City to evaluate animal control services provided by township
• National Dems: ‘Road to majority’ in Congress ‘goes through Illinois’
• Poll: Will Mitt be it?
• Got cash? Then buy local
• Thanas staying with Joliet, but clerk is retiring
• Before noon, another record high temp set
• Kick-a-thon to benefit Troy athletics
• Officials: Summer temps causing ‘dangerously high’ tree pollen levels
• GOP Grundy County Board primary sees one incumbent ousted
• Bates defeats Neal in Grundy prosecutor primary
• Kinzinger ousts Manzullo in 16th Congressional District GOP primary
• Foster gets easy win, will next face Biggert
• Jackson routs Halvorson in 2nd District
• Peck wins GOP nod in 49th state Senate district
• St. Mary Carmelite church turned over to developer
• Will County voters split on electricity option
• Walsh turns away challenge; 2 county board incumbents ousted
• TRIAD members to learn about Leeza’s Place
• Warrants issued for 3 men accused of robbing pizza restaurants
• Will Co. voters drawn out by more than GOP presidential race
• Walsh, 19 incumbents face challenge on Will County Board
• Hillcrest center sued over abuse claims
• One dead, one wounded in shooting near Crest Hill
• Morris City Council rejects landfill expansion
• Poll: Should worker be reinstated?
• Arrests made in Plainfield pizza robbery
• Cruise nights to return to Plainfield
• Plainfield OKs village’s first bed and breakfast
• Minooka High schools chief sees pitfalls in grant program
• Morris moves against emerald ash borer
• Aftershock shakes Mexico City after 7.4-magnitude earthquake
• St. Baldrick’s party set for area golf club
• County clerk expects low voter turnout
• New cable fee will fund remodeling of council chambers
• Chances to put prison back in use are fading ‘rapidly’
• Joliet’s Fire Station 3 dedicated
• Blood drive at Will County state’s attorney’s office
• Poll: Heading to the polls?
• Yorkville path supporters plan concert fundraiser
• Grundy, Coal City to cooperate on police study
• Fired animal control officer will get to keep dog
• Romney confident, Illinois voters divided as GOP primary nears
• Record high temperature set for fifth consecutive day
• Criminal charges cloud sexual harassment claim
• A new academic trek
• Pulse: Township supervisor misses dead cat show
• Blood drive to be Saturday in Manhattan
• Board Urges Governor To Cease And Desist Negotiations With Alnac, Cites Major Ethics Concerns
• Board Approves Collective Bargaining Agreement Without Additional Spending
• Will County Wins National Transparency Award
• Aunt Martha’s breaks ground on new health center in Joliet
• Housing Authority of Joliet can avoid cuts with proof of accounting error
• Joliet’s Ethel McCraith had ‘determination in her eyes’
• Heroin  conference slated at Lewis U.
• Animal control dispute causes protesters to growl
• Fashion show to be Wednesday
• Poll: Animal control
• Mokena man, a teacher, pleads guilty in sex case
• Man guilty in 2008 rape of 6-year-old girl; faces 120 years
• Ballot question: It’s electric
• A win-wind situation for Grundy County
• Plainfield South math team to compete in state contest
• New home to fill site of fatal ’08 explosion
• Bin Laden wanted to kill Obama so ‘unprepared’ Biden would take over
• Group keeps Irish spirit alive
• Arrest made in 2001 Joliet Township slaying
• Kathy Griffin’s Rialto show in Joliet rescheduled
• Cook County sheriff’s officer, son nabbed in federal sting
• Southwest  Police Blotter
• STAND: Promoting anti-bullying
• Saints Strength for Life event to be held April 22
• Health department gets grant for its website
• New Grundy 911 center now operating
• Eight in GOP race for Kendall Board District 2
• Eight compete in Kendall District 1 GOP race
• Pack the house for Special Olympics
• Students learn the ills of tobacco use
• Students bring history to life
• Griffin Rialto show rescheduled
• CarHop dealership zoning rejected by Joliet panel
• Police Blotter: Men hit cell phone store in armed robbery
• Workers rally to keep Illinois Youth Center open
• County board wants an end to Jackson’s airport panel
• Kony 2012 comes to Joliet
• Rod Blagojevich begins sentence at a Colorado federal prison
• Rod Blagojevich begins 14-year sentence at a Colorado federal prison
• Bolingbrook Lions to offer hearing screening
• Animal control officer loses job, keeps dog, for now
• Man charged with burglarizing evidence locker where heroin went missing
• Yorkville, private owner agree on REC Center price
• Will County slams Jesse Jackson Jr.’s airport plan — again
• Minooka students would have made Rube Goldberg proud
• Caterpillar to shift work from Joliet to S.C. manufacturing plant
• Cardinal George to speak at USF
• Joliet looking for largest silver maple tree
• Shorewood Police Department to get new electronic sign
• Man, 81, dies in brush fire while working in yard
• Rube would have been proud
• Blago says goodbye to freedom
• Edward CEO finds vindication as Blago heads to prison
• Then & Now
• Yard waste collection to start in Joliet
• Plainfield mulls changes to rule on outdoor sales
• Poll: Feelings for Blagojevich?
• Animal control officer faces off against Joliet Township
• Cunningham not a candidate, court rules
• Hastert making the rounds for Romney
• Recommendations coming for future use of vacant prison, steel mill
• Suburban Chicago live music for St Patrick’s Day weekend: March 16th-17th
• Joliet firefighter arrested on domestic battery charge
• Wednesday a record-setter for warmth
• Will County receives grant for mental health program
• Caterpillar gives aid to Big Brothers
• Great Read program inspires ‘Rocket Boy’ art competition
• Concerns aired about proposed senior housing in New Lenox
• Braidwood rejects shed concrete pad requirement
• Live review: ‘Our Father’s Burden’
• Route 66 to take another direction
• Rialto racking up star appearances
• It’s spring cleanup time in Troy Township
• Federal judge throws out part of Illinois campaign finance law
• Authorities investigating whether chickens on Homer Glen farm were groomed to fight
• Former Joliet cop arrested for allegedly beating a Yorkville woman
• With new tobacco business waiting, Frankfort puts licenses on hold
• State Board of Elections: Cunningham votes shouldn’t count in 11th Dist. race
• Girl Scouts celebrate 100th anniversary
• Silver Cross gets donation of $50,000
• Ballot challenge backdrop to 11th Congressional District GOP race
• Boy injured in Wyoming crash starting to heal
• $6 million settlement in train crossing crash that killed dancer
• Learning to eat wisely
• Irish dancers qualify for world event
• Employees to rally to keep Illinois Youth Center open
• West-Fest to be Saturday
• New judge in Wal-Mart gun case
• Board Schedules Meeting To Discuss 95th Street Extension In Bolingbrook, Naperville
• Plainfield girl, 6, killed in Wyoming crash
• Joliet city manager being recruited for another job
• Springlike 80 degrees for Chicago in last week of winter
• Lockport man dies in motorcycle crash
• Cook notes Channahon’s gains during past year
• Springlike escape for Chicago in last week of winter
• Crest Hill takes up address issue
• Plainfield’s Bayles part of sweep in Afghanistan
• Crest Hill teen shot to death
• 11th District race shaping up to be national battleground
• Paramedic had one goal: He wanted to save lives
• Romeoville girl earns trip to national spelling bee
• Lockport mayor proposes rate increase options
• Voters to decide on sales tax hike in March 20 referendum
• Pulse: Blues Brothers Revue rocks the Rialto
• Fraud program to be held at Sunny Hill
• Crest Hill teen found shot to death on street corner
• Teen’s death in Joliet being investigated as homicide
• School’s reaction to threat against 5-year-old angers mom
• Hundreds take the plunge at Leisure Lakes for Special Olympics
• Illiana Expressway meeting moved  to training facility
• 98th District hopefuls tout conservativeness
• Is a reinvention on the horizon for Joliet?
• Joliet bill payment by phone system starts
• Exchange Club honors pair
• Leeza’s Place receives more than $100,000 award
• 95th Street meeting set
• Orland Park nurse developing health curriculum for Haiti schools
• Poll: Rush Limbaugh
• Superpac backing Romney buys nearly $1 million in TV time here
• Senator's doctor happy with stroke recovery
• Romeoville program aims to alleviate drainage problems
• House passes ban on drivers using cell phones near emergency scenes
• Southwest police blotter
• Warm temperatures mean  early emergence of the insects
• New Contract to bring big savings to Romeoville
• Girls say man tried to lure them into car
• Public meeting set on 95th Street extension project
• Man gets fine for DUI conviction
• U of I president  vows to address  faculty woes
• Great-grandmother knows her sauerkraut
• Plainfield Rotary Madness under way
• Kendall votes for more stringent control of bills
• Will County Board Issues Severe Weather Awareness Reminder
• Bolingbrook student wins Will County spelling bee
• Girls say man tried lure them into car
• House passes statewide ban on using cell phone while driving
• Primary election start of changes for Will Co. Board
• Heritage Corridor trains running on time
• Joliet looking for another land buy downtown
• Aunt Martha’s to begin construction this month
• Poll: Smoking in casinos
• Kendall finalizes support for CASA
• Will County spellers seek chance at D.C. competition
• Ready to bear the flame
• Illinois senators vote to cut their salaries again
• Man sentenced for driving 96 mph in Naperville while drunk
• Solar storm speeds toward Earth, may disrupt power, satellites
• Workshop teaches teens safety skills
• Walmart helps stock pantry
• ExxonMobil gives award to area couple
• Lewis University Arts Gala to benefit Arts & Ideas series
• Quite a Leap Day for Shorewood family
• EPA test to take place at Braidwood Station
• Joliet casino revenues still in decline
• Plainfield Irish parade Sunday
• Then & Now: Old Goldblatt’s building
• Child ID event to be Saturday in Romeoville
• Gingrich at Judson town hall meeting March 15
• Teen fans ravenous for ‘Hunger Games’
• Wrongful death suit filed in drowning of tot at Aurora home
• Suit: Collector Porsches, Intellivision sold after rent payments lagged
• Kendall Board OKs concept for KenCom lease
• Crash victim’s family says no drag racing involved
• Land purchase to help Joliet build transportation center
• Big bucks, high stakes in race for Senate District 49
• Police blotter: Police stop men, arrest them on marijuana charges
• Report claims townships do more with less
• Spring Arts Festival set by Friends of New Lenox Library
• Police respond to threat to ‘shoot up’ Lincoln-Way Central High School
• Teacher’s aide pleads guilty to sex with student
• Two agreements net more than $900K for Joliet
• Joliet OKs new liquor licenses for W. Jefferson, Jackson St. locations
• Chicago man accused in international hacking bust
• Plainfield OKs redevelopment of Ottawa Street site
• Yorkville man to carry the flame for Olympics
• Blagojevich’s new name: Prisoner No. 40892-424
• Edward expansion gets approval
• Will County senior center program wins award
• Palos Hills man admits setting 2008 pancake house fire
• Channahon fire chief leaving for Plainfield job
• Plainfield OKs redevelopment of Ottawa St. site
• Plainfield amends nuisance ordinance
• Athletes wear green to promote kindness
• Homer Township Library wants room to grow
• Shorewood to get first commercial LED sign
• Union Station getting spruced up
• Police blotter: Cops: Women pimped 15-year-old
• Support groups to assist young parents
• Experts: Pipeline crash won’t raise price of gas if repairs are timely
• Lincoln’s Tomb to get a makeover
• White House moves G-8 summit from Chicago to Camp David
• Goat gives birth to five kids at Lockport’s Calypso Farm
• Police say drag racing led to fatal pipeline crash
• AP survey: More optimism about jobs and economy
• Beating by Joliet cop haunts Yorkville woman
• Experts: Pipeline crash won’t raise price of gas if repairs are timely
• Primary election start of changes for Will Co. Board
• Minooka High Board to review field trip expense policy
• Primary election start of changes for Will Co. Board
• Police blotter: Romeoville man arrested for aggravated battery, vandalism
• Sabor International fined $2,000 for liquor violations
• Pulse: Is medical campus really just a thought?
• Naperville club donates to advocacy center
• Joliet’s McGuire tells tales of first week as state senator
• Joliet’s Woodland School wins $50,000 in U.S. Cellular communities campaign
• An extraordinary life: Former Timbers prom ‘queen’ had generous spirit
• Bill to raise dropout age not getting an A here
• Grundy-area police report recent arrests
• Police Blotter: Cops says car was stolen for tools stored inside
• Assistant principal to take helm of special ed program
• Burros youth football team to stay in Mokena
• Two dead in oil pipeline crash in New Lenox Township
• Details of hit-and-run driver’s life murky since fatal crash
• Bid questions delay 911 upgrade
• Plainfield schools seek award nominations
• 38th District Dems want to put focus on economy, education
• $500K bond for Plainfield man held in sex abuse case
• ‘Even though he’s fired, he’s still the police’
• Pace’s Route 508 serves new hospital
• Utility bill assistance still available
• Joliet chamber set to honor 17 teachers
• Board Encourages Residents To Learn About Electric Aggregation Before Going To The Polls
• Whale of an award for Lockport man
• Ex-NVHS aide guilty of having sex with student
• Man, 18, charged with sexually assaulting woman in west suburb
• Band persists despite changes - Joliet Herald News
• Poll: Election choices
• Charges: Christian ed professor had pics of kids under 13, unregistered guns
• Strange week in weather continues, rain and snow expected Friday
• Deal likely in Metea teacher sex assault case
• Mokena Park District to Burros: Change leadership and ‘let’s start fresh’
• $500K bond for Plainfield man held in sex abuse case
• Minooka extends tax abatement for former Clorox facility
• Blues Bros. revue on tap at the Rialto
• Police Blotter: 5-year-old home alone when fire breaks out
• Musicians bring blues to USF
• JTHS students’ basketball robot is ready to rumble
• Man fined $1M for Ponzi scheme
• Channahon school tax refund no sure thing
• Homer Glen State of Village address set
• Yorkville group pushing grassroots support for path
• Driver gets four years in fatal Kendall crash
• Strange week in weather continues, rain and snow expected Friday
• Driver gets four years in fatal Kendall crash
• Poll: Taxes done?
• Driver gets four years in fatal Kendall crash
• Quinn lifts hold on Illinois hospital tax rulings
• Woman gets 12 years for role in kidnapping
• Jobs picture brightens, but incomes, spending weak
• Minooka schools to continue phonics approach to reading
• Minooka retention pond shorelines damaged
• Shorewood to get first commercial LED sign
• Area gas prices up about 25 cents from last year
• Addition to double size of Homer library
• Grundy Souper Bowl collects record-setting amount
• Ribbon cutting set for clinic at Senior Services Center
• Joliet Grade School District unveils a flashier website
• Then & Now: Jefferson and Ottawa streets
• Tax rebate checks to go out in New Lenox
• Cold temps killed homeless man
• 8 charged in extreme snack attack
• Frankfort to assess shuttered buildings
• Therapy dog helping young abuse victims
• Poll: Higher taxes, lower values?
• Wind advisory issued for south suburban counties
• Kendall approves major road projects for 2012
• Tax rebate checks to go out in New Lenox
• Fermilab director: Budget cuts could have ‘significant consequences’
• Lincoln-Way area citizen’s police academy to start
• Luxury portable toilet business coming to Shorewood
• Shorewood business gets permission for banner display
• Bolingbrook police: Woman lied about sex assault
• Mom excited to be first to give birth at new hospital
• Lincoln-Way making 130 community garden plots available
• Women’s club set to offer scholarship
• Mayor: Joliet ‘ready to reinvent itself’
• Bowling event set for special needs rec center
• Primary rivals Jackson and Halvorson haggle over loyalty to Obama
• $200,000 in fire damage linked to suspect, 12
• Poll: Early voting
• More staff cuts ahead for Plainfield schools
• Man convicted of gunning down ex-wife outside Oak Brook hotel
• Juvenile jail employee gets 6 years for sexually assaulting inmate
• Voting map redrawn by those in power — with hope of keeping it
• Plainfield eyes balanced budget
• Supreme Court refuses to close local locks in Asian-carp dispute
• Move of Plainfield war memorial delayed, for now
• Cultural arts center plans facility near Plainfield
• Crest Hill trash pickup fee to increase
• Sparks fly over mayoral residency in Supreme Court candidate forum
• Cops: Infant likely fell out of bed, suffocated
• Historical museum to honor century-old JTHS band at gala
• Man charged with Plainfield bar stabbing
• Downtown Lockport fire closes bar
• Romeoville to discuss electric aggregation
• Poll: Surprised an arrest was made in hit-run case?
• Four charged in various arson cases
• Man charged in Joliet beating
• Kendall Health director retires after 21 years with department
• Guilty conscience leads man to confess to 2008 fatal hit-and-run in Joliet
• Supreme Court won’t get involved in Asian carp fight
• Juvenile charged with setting fires in Plainfield
• Man approaches boy, leaves porn magazine on his porch
• Man arrested after stabbing outside Plainfield bar
• Pulse: Third airport contractor has reported ties to Gadhafi
• Make fitness fun and your heart will thank you
• Police blotter: Man charged with burglary
• Local students advance to state chemistry challenge
• Grundy-area police report recent arrests
• Silver Cross Hospital moves from Joliet to New Lenox
• New thrift store opens in Lockport
• Bald eagle numbers up in Illinois
• Board celebrates Black History Month, Honors Frank Stewart
• Silver Cross Hospital moves from Joliet to New Lenox
• New thrift store opens in Lockport
• ‘Laddie’ loved basking in nature
• Police blotter: Man shot in chest while sitting in car
• Plainfield’s McCarthy to learn Oscar fate
• Lions Cash Bash to be Saturday
• Anderson, Farnick seek support in 14th Congressional District
• This is one assignment that will stick with them
• Biggert appeals Cunningham’s return to 11th District ballot
• Voters have multiple  issues facing them
• Voters to find new names on ballot after remapping
• Voters can hit the polls on Monday
• Fire strikes downtown Lockport building
• Plainfield’s McCarthy to learn Oscar fate
• McGuire replaces Wilhelmi in 43rd District
• District 161 votes to close Drew School in Frankfort
• Advocates applaud plan to close Illinois youth centers
• Dancing club turns school gym into ballroom
• Fire damages Joliet apartment building
• Naperville man gets probation for possessing child pornography
• ‘Haiti doesn’t need  a hand out, it needs a hand up’
• Right place, right time: Joliet officer again catches alleged burglars in the act
• Joliet man beaten in home invasion
• Kendall to call in bond on developer
• Illiana Expressway meeting draws big turnout
• Wilmington may transfer some city property to park district
• Joliet legislator ‘reached across party lines’
• Local ties to Haiti are many and strong
• Briefs: Provena hosts nursing conference
• Blotter: SUV hits Joliet ambulance
• Library to debut media studio
• New Lenox man gets prison for burglary and child pornography
• Private investigators drop lawsuit against Riley Fox’s parents
• Homer Glen man accused of child pornography
• District 161 to close Drew School
• P.I. drops Riley Fox case lawsuit
• Fired Joliet officer allegedly beat woman
• Congressman calls for Keystone pipeline OK
• Funds needed for prevention of domestic violence, sex assault
• Fundraiser to help injured man
• Yorkville asks county for loan for bridge project
• Area braces for another slap by Old Man Winter
• Crest Hill mayor cites road projects, business growth as positive signs
• 40,000 pounds of aluminum stolen
• Session to discuss how to finance college
• Think winter is done for the season? Think again
• Gov. Pat Quinn on pension mess: ‘Everything is on the table’
• Poll: Youth prison closure
• ‘Sharing people’s  misery and sorrow makes them stronger’
• 585 jobs at stake at threatened local prisons
• MorningStar ‘a blessing’ for homeless veterans
• Penitents marked with ashes for Lent
• Walnut Trail, others, cited for academic excellence
• Half of special ed teachers to retain jobs at Minooka High
• Minooka High details deficit reduction plan
• Then & Now: Joliet Dry Goods Co. to Rialto Square Theatre
• Wanted: Hamburglar
• Proposed intermodal district concerns Elwood officials
• D204 substitute teacher fired in duct-taping incident
• Gov. Pat Quinn on pension mess: ‘Everything is on the table’
• Morris special ed coordinator resigns
• Guiding himself, others through the chaos
• Culling optimism from so much hardship
• Joliet’s year-end finances even better than expected
• Sheriff busts shop for synthetic-drug sales
• Quinn looks to close Joliet youth prison
• March 8 kickoff for Plainfield Relay for Life
• Developer purchases unfinished Yorkville subdivision
• Salvation Army much bigger than red kettles
• ‘Top Model’ contestant to grace runway
• Report: Quinn budget plan calls for closing more state facilities
• Fair helps ‘frustrated’ job seekers
• Sen. Durbin backs Senate transportation bill, not GOP House bill
• Troy schools post seniority list
• Troy schools asked to lower impact fees
• 4.0 earthquake in Missouri shakes 9 states
• Look hard enough, and you’ll find signs of hope
• ‘Here for the long haul’
• Crash kills Bolingbrook driver
• Romeoville Relay for Life kickoff to be Thursday
• Rehab Institute ‘pleased’ with Kirk’s progress
• Business advocate visits Joliet to bring message to politicians
• Poll: Get a holiday?
• Limp appointed to Frankfort library board
• Metra inching closer to Oswego
• Kirk walking on treadmill; doctors ‘pleased with progress’
• JTHS: 100 years to beat the band
• Police blotter: Woman charged for failing to register as habitual child sex offender
• Man killed in Bolingbrook crash
• In Haiti, it’s one miserable local after another
• Catholic Charities in Joliet closing offices for four days
• Record-breaking Chicago winter continues
• From one miserable locale to another
• Local teacher eliminated from ‘Jeopardy!’ tourney
• Pulse: Will Rutherford run for governor?
• Discount prescription cards offered
• JHTS: 100 years to beat the band
• Influence game: Leaks show area group’s climate efforts
• Police blotter: Woman charged for failing to register at habitual child sex offender
• He’s filling essential needs, one cargo  container at a time
• Joliet man remembered for kindness and humor
• Grundy-area police report recent arrests
• Classroom visit brings back school memories
• Twist in fashion accessory knockoff case
• Police Blotter: Bolingbrook man killed in crash
• Job fair to be Monday in Lockport
• Kirk walking on treadmill; doctors ‘pleased with progress’
• Man stays in Joliet motel with girlfriend’s corpse for nearly two days
• Man stays in motel with girlfriend’s corpse for two days
• New eateries coming to Joliet
• Warrant issued in fashion accessory knockoff case
• ‘I can still smell the flesh, the fire and the smoke’
• Taft School Board OKs referendum
• Deal trims maximum jobless benefits to 73 weeks
• Sen. Kirk walking on treadmill; doctors ‘pleased with progress’
• Following the trail of help to Haiti
• ‘It’s a work of mercy to bury the dead’
• Teen on mission  to become doctor
• Couple with strong JCA ties to be honored
• Pantry gets food out to 180 families
• County gets RTA grant
• Coaches hosting youth baseball clinic
• Kirk walking on treadmill; doctors ‘pleased with progress’
• Homer SD 33C to get $4.5M payment
• Crest Hill lifts boil order
• Woman found dead at Joliet motel
• Exchange Club of Joliet honors pair of police officers
• Joliet board delays decision on CarHop facility
• New Lenox School Board votes to keep current busing plan
• Romeoville OKs cleanup of Spartan Square
• ‘Poor little Jason’ guilty in 2009 Channahon murder
• New Lenox School Board slashes student fees
• Street improvements for 2012 approved by Shorewood
• Shorewood to use bond funds to finish uncompleted subdivision work
• Taking a look back in time
• Man charged with forgery in Frankfort
• Police: Teen sexually assaulted at Joliet youth home
• Will County gives initial OK to mosque plan
• Giving Gala to benefit YMCA
• Police: Joliet robbery victim was really ringleader
• Cops fatally shoot Joliet Marine
• Tuesday deadline to apply for Wilhelmi’s state senate seat
• Crest Hill issues boil order
• Joliet police recover 200 stolen sewer grates, arrest three men
• Yorkville, Oswego to bid for garbage collection together
• Driver allegedly on phone when she hit Rockdale squad car
• Woman: Murder suspect was in ‘shock’
• Businesses urged to take part in New Lenox French Market
• Romeoville residents urged to approve electricity plan
• Channahon School Board mulls future finances
• Thieves target manholes and sewers in Will County
• Joliet police to listen to what teens have to say
• Local agency  offering free hearing tests
• Air Force sergeant retiring for civilian post
• Thieves target manholes and sewers
• Kohl’s Shorewood plans further delayed
• Then & Now: Nowell Park Pool
• Pros to offer summer camps in New Lenox
• Benefit Saturday for Will-Grundy Medical Clinic
• Joliet police sting targets sex trade
• Poll: Prostitution prosecution
• Son says Worth woman found dead was ‘wonderful’ but was a hoarder
• Man charged with breaking into Aurora home, raping woman
• Dixie Square demolition begins
• Yorkville rejects pact with state to remove dam
• Driver charged with DUI in I-55 crash near Joliet
• Shooting victim describes deadly Channahon home invasion
• Joliet club pleads guilty to liquor violations
• Channahon man arrested for sex with drunk woman outside bar
• Child porn charges for Lockport man
• Grundy County Board votes to eliminate health insurance for members
• Grundy Board OKs plan on dispatcher retirement system
• Perino allegedly used her Lockport companies in Chicago fraud case
• Pros to offer summer camps in New Lenox
• Kohl’s Shorewood plans further delayed
• Yorkville to ask residents: What do you want from your city?
• Chicago clout contractor targeted in major construction fraud case
• Three charged with forging prescriptions
• Cash Dash returns $101M to residents
• March of Dimes kickoff to be Thursday
• Joliet crash temporarily closes I-55
• JTHS remembers longtime volleyball volunteer lost to cancer
• ‘Promising’ data: Construction of new homes spikes in Joliet
• Occupy protests to emerge from ‘winter lull’
• Valley View School Board votes to keep busing in-house after union concessions
• Parents ask Minooka school board to change grading policy
• Plainfield may join coalition to protect watershed
• Morris to track fuel usage by city vehicles
• From ‘love at first sight’ to ‘till death do us part’
• Board Mourns Death Of Longtime Member Frank Stewart
• Heroin talk draws overflow crowd to Naperville library
• Businessman launches chamber from Yorkville to Elgin
• Computer classes to be offered at Farm Bureau
• Amtrak claims CN is delaying trains
• Romeoville police reopen 1980 murder case
• Will County likes Illiana route
• Poll: Valentine’s Day doings
• Around 10,000 visitors take tour of new Silver Cross
• Pulse: Grosskopf says he won’t run for second term as Dems chair
• Illiana Expressway could start at I-65 near Lowell; meetings set
• Obama’s new budget: Higher taxes for the wealthy
• Joliet junior high students learn life lessons from elders
• Southwest blotter: Grundy-area police report recent arrests
• Special owners open homes to rescued pets
• Man accused of threatening to kill girlfriend
• Fire damages apartment in Joliet
• ‘Housewarming’ at new hospital
• Pulse
• Channahon to hold meetings on electrical aggregation
• Rev. Wright: Race not over yet
• Quinn natural gas tax proposal far from simple
• SD 210 adjusts summer school, ‘zero hour’ fees
• State Rep. McAsey holding poster contest for junior high students
• Junior high students learn life lessons from elders
• Ribbon cutting ceremony held for Plainfield business center
• Blind Frankfort Square teen not letting anything, or anyone, keep her down
• Police Blotter
• Plainfield teacher to compete for Ms. America crown
• Wilhelmi to resign from state Senate post
• Outpouring helps convince Obama to change contraception policy
• Cash Dash comes to Lockport on Tuesday
• Are state, feds tying police grant money to DUI arrest quotas?
• Plainfield residents to vote on electric aggregation
• Soldier send-off at Mokena school a class act
• Shorewood police benefit from dance
• Hung jury in murder case of East High soccer player
• Mother of boy bitten by dog sues Kendall County Animal Control
• Obama: Birth control policy meets everyone’s needs
• Police blotter: Man jailed in Will County on armed burglary charge
• Groups to work together, seek private funding to help Will County’s children
• Agencies help disabled man buy Joliet home
• Illinois to get $1B  in mortgage deal
• Joliet bar fined $500
• Biggert, Foster clash over Keystone pipeline stock
• Rev. Wright to speak Sunday in Aurora
• Art, chocolate show to honor late artist
• Voter registration event at USF
• Rialto to welcome Carol Burnett
• Will County Board member Frank Stewart dead at 66
• Poll: Carol Burnett
• Powerball rolls over, jackpot now $310M
• Joliet center in need of donor support
• Rialto welcoming Paul Shaffer, Official Blues Brothers Revue
• Grundy to host grain rescue training
• Revenue plummets at casinos
• Alleged robber turns himself in
• Valley View looking for more FANS
• White Oak Library District planning surplus auction
• Poll: Been to the new casino?
• Candidate tossed from 11th District ballot running as write-in
• Visiting jail? Leave drugs at home
• Joliet burglary patrols witness crime
• Then & Now: Joliet’s Jefferson Street bridge
• Walsh Jr. mulls filling Wilhelmi seat; Las to apply
• Alleged bank robber turns himself in to Romeoville cops
• Trucker sought for threatening girlfriend with gun
• March events to bring road closings in Plainfield
• Crime numbers, police OT down in Channahon
• Lockport Vietnam veteran honored by President Obama loses cancer battle
• Classic car showroom coming to Plainfield
• EPA grant to help Minooka High cut busing costs
• Plainfield renews boundary pact with Joliet
• Grant to help pay for pedestrian bridge in Plainfield
• Minooka High Board eyes $2 million in cuts
• Appeals court throws out same-sex marriage ban
• When your eyes fail you
• Joliet approves plan for VA clinic
• State rep. plans meetings with county officials
• Prosecutor: Teen shooter to be tried as adult
• Residency issue resolved, Petrella to fill own Kendall board vacancy
• Movie explores ‘Vanishing of the Bees’
• Authorities: Joliet driver charged in crash was facing deportation
• Sandburg teacher charged with sexually abusing student
• Provena Saint Joseph doctors choose leaders
• Joliet mother killed in crash, orphaning 5-year-old
• Cancer claims decorated Vietnam veteran from Lockport
• Shattered tap handle leads to suit against Two Brothers Brewing Co.
• Pay up on old parking tickets or risk your state tax refund
• Police: Joliet boy tortured cat
• Court: Calif. gay marriage ban unconstitutional
• Komen official quits in wake of Planned Parenthood dispute
• Police: Joliet man flees crash scene after seriously injuring girl
• Lockport grad gets shot at ‘Idol’
• Four killed in wrong-way crash along I-80
• Naperville school, community leaders grapple with teacher’s murder
• No one seriously hurt in rollover crash in Frankfort
• Resident wants ban on chaining dogs
• Joliet to wait for JJC building plan
• Off-duty officer pulls gun in Oswego Wal-Mart
• Ribbon-cutting set for Plainfield business center
• Lockport grad gets shot at ‘Idol’
• Accident or homicide? Man’s death a mystery
• Poll: Reality TV shows
• Naperville school grapples with teacher’s murder
• Asian refugee has no right to son she abandoned, judge rules
• Camps offer taste of colleges
• GOP debate Thursday for 25th, 49th Senate races
• ‘Unseasonably’ warm temps won’t continue this week
• Fire damages Joliet home
• Ethics commission drops complaint against Vickery
• Waste Management sites bring in $4.7M
• Police blotter
• Pulse: Quitting won’t take Wilhelmi off ballot
• Feb. 21 last day to register to vote in March election
• Bond set for man accused of killing Naperville teacher
• Political unity evading third airport backers
• Moving Silver Cross Hospital: It’s not brain surgery, but it is complex
• Gala welcomes Silver Cross to New Lenox
• 44th annual Morris Hospital ball set for March 3
• Grundy-area police report recent arrests
• Minooka officers and department earn kudos
• Head Start enrollments available
• Great Danes display size, beauty in Frankfort competition
• Briefs: Have lunch with Rosie the bloodhound
• Moving Silver Cross Hospital: It’s not brain surgery, but it is complex
• Romeoville OKs ambulance purchase
• Rally to take on drug overdoses
• Summit Hill schools mull cost-cutting measures
• Joliet Job Corps student accused of rape
• Schools fear Quinn idea to shift pension costs
• Susan G. Komen drops plans to stop Planned Parenthood grants
• Kendall Ethics panel drops complaint against Vickery
• Samy’s Lounge fined by liquor commissioner
• Railroad admits flaws in Yorkville derailment cleanup
• Fermilab sounds debut at CSO performance
• Complaint leads to gun charge
• Board, University Of St. Francis Work Together To Redevelop Downtown Joliet
• Filing errors knock Kane clerk off election ballot
• Joliet man fighting for rights of pedestrians amid local obstacles
• Home Depot moves to Joliet warehouse
• Joliet chamber salutes Hollywood Casino
• August trial date for alleged family killer Christopher Vaughn
• Lockport OKs concept plan for proposed crude-oil depot
• Veto maintains Lockport water-rate hike
• RHS Band Boosters plan Festival Night
• Police arrest man suspected of many Meijer thefts
• Romeoville bank robbed
• Joliet bishop calls for protest of birth-control requirement
• Susan G. Komen charity ends funding for Planned Parenthood
• Obama says his policies are extension of his faith
• Wealthy Florida man adopts girlfriend in legal battle
• SUV goes into Dupage River at Plainfield
• Weather not as strange as it appears
• Police: Man with child porn on phone took pics of kid at Romeoville library
• Quinn’s State of the State address gets cool reception
• Four face burglary charges
• For 12th year, Joliet earns award for financial reports
• Mojoes denies serving minors before fight
• Pit bulls seek true love at Kendall shelter
• Congressional race fund-raising shows Jackson and Halvorson competitive
• Push for fertilizer ban comes up short in Kendall
• Troy schools thanked for toy drive
• Coffee with Plainfield school superintendent Saturday
• Poll: State’s financial health
• Shorewood man convicted of having child porn on his computer
• Group names its top ‘Bigs’
• Obama seeks to broaden reach of housing assistance
• Pfizer recalls 28 lots of birth control pills
• Quinn pitches tax relief for families, businesses that hire vets; more college aid
• Firefighters put out blazes in Crest Hill and Lockport
• Relay for Life ready to kick off
• Library moves into historic Lockport building
• Minooka mulls law on street fundraising
• Tentative contract averts refinery strike
• Alleged gunman may lose hand
• Teens split on best age to start driving
• Missing Naperville man is found OK
• Metra riders rush to buy passes before 25 percent fare hike
• Company wants Joliet to OK charity raffle devices for bars
• After debate, Crest Hill hires streets chief
• Strike possible at Citgo refinery
• Poll: Age to drive
• Blind Frankfort teen not letting anything, or anyone, keep her down
• Baby weighing nearly 14 pounds delivered without C-section
• Tax help available for Troy seniors
• New homes for dogs saved from squalor
• A question....
• Search for missing Naperville man continues
• Teen shot in Bolingbrook
• Dems seek Wilhelmi’s successor
• Police: Wilmington officers shoot masked, armed man
• Palatine woman, 88, found dead at Midewin park in Will Co.
• Sen. Mark Kirk upgraded to fair condition
• New Lenox restaurant to rebuild after fire
• Kendall inmate died of heart trouble
• New Lenox Naval Reserve officer returns from Afghanistan
• Poll: Super Sunday?
• State action urged to stop pension debt from ballooning
• Police seek missing Naperville man with autism
• Metra fare increases begin Wednesday
• JJC professor connects photo students with those in need
• Pits for Patriots a shot for those in need
• Southwest Weekly: Grundy-area police report recent arrests
• Yellow dots can save lives
• Plainfield updating its comprehensive plan
• Blotter: Local police report arrests
• Local couple celebrates  70 years of wedded bliss
• A shot for those in need
• Local 150 reaches deal with Minooka on contract
• Pulse: Bob Sirott visits Joliet Area Historical Museum
• Violent crime down in Joliet
• Joliet Democrat Wilhelmi stepping down from State Senate seat
• Mayor: Lockport continues to grow
• Trivedi vetos decision to end water-rate hike
• College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan
• Police Blotter: Muggers hit teens before taking their necklaces
• Colleague: Kirk ‘irritated’ in hospital, which means he’s getting ‘better’
• Economic growth not enough to sharply reduce unemployment
• Poll: Lock your doors?
• Benefits set for Shorewood vet who lost his home in fire
• The Department helps kids’ club
• 73-year-old accused of fondling girls in Homer Glen
• New Lenox surprises returning serviceman
• New Lenox schools adapt to declining kindergarten enrollment
• Police: Frankfort Square man sought child for sex on Craigslist.com
• Cops: Man sought fathers on Craigslist ‘willing to share their daughters’
• Shorewood residents rally to aid fire victims
• Frankfort firefighter owes fine in hit-and-run case
• Panel suggests $1 increase in license plate fee
• Budget-minded brides find bargains at Together We Cope sale
• Gov. Quinn to propose raising school dropout age 18
• Minooka Grade Schools resume own special education program
• Alum excellence award nominees are still needed
• New Lenox announces  firefighters’ promotions
• Police blotter: Joliet man facing drug charges
• 2 arrested, 1 sought in robberies
• Home uninhabitable after fire
• Fundraiser to help students attend band camp and more
• Lockport to vote on crude-oil depot proposal
• OpenLine: Values out of whack
• Joliet neighbors fight budget car dealership plan
• Area’s worst blizzard hit 45 years ago
• Souper Bowl event will help local Boys and Girls Club
• Country Club Hills man charged in University Park murder
• When enjoying soft serve ice cream, thank Joliet man and his dream
• Ecstasy sales land woman in prison
• Bolingbrook suspect wanted in Calif.
• Ecstacy sales land woman in prison
• Joliet man embodied American dream
• Joliet and Suburban Chicago live music Jan 26th-30th 2011
• Police: Joliet man had sex with 15-year-old
• Joliet man embodied American dream
• Stebic lawyer gets court date in legal fee dispute
• Misfit Craft Brewery gets OK in Oswego
• Second train derailment spurs questions in Yorkville
• JCA lockdown gives police, staff overview of school safety plan
• Yorkville council approves IDOT agreement to widen Route 34
• Then & Now: Barrett Hardware Co.
• Illinois abortions at record low
• Moms, health professonals steadfast in their beliefs in breastfeeding
• New Lenox residents to see increase in water rates
• New Lenox village and park district to swap property
• Shorewood allocates 911 fees to WESCOM
• Local residents aren’t quite  warming up to state of union
• Hoops squad delights at Joliet Central
• President Obama says every American should get a fair shot
• Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth
• President Obama says state of the union is getting stronger
• Sen. Mark Kirk doing better — asks for Blackberry
• Seniors are welcome on ‘Love Boat’
• ‘Devoted to breastfeeding’
• Teen employment drops in state
• Plainfield native McCarthy nominated for Oscar
• Train cars derail in Yorkville; crews work to clean up site
• Man pleads not guilty to trying to kill Obama
• Bolingbrook man gets 7 years for stabbing
• Plainfield to host business incubation center
• Channahon schools hold line on most fees
• Plainfield to host business incubation center
• Plainfield officials want better beer fest operation
• Disabled freight train delays Metra trains in Joliet area
• Kadner: No state plan to treat mentally ill
• Two men arrested after fight at Joliet campus
• Illinois to allow courtroom cameras on ‘experimental basis’
• Chairman Moustis Urges Local Control Of 3rd Airport
• Poll: Do you visit Old Country Buffet
• Sen. Mark Kirk has stroke, could have problems with left arm, leg
• Police: Joliet man used Facebook to find teen for sex
• Program offers senior job seekers
• State gives Yorkville time on bike trail decision
• Kendall reaches agreement with former Sheriff’s Department clerk
• Old Country Buffet closes Joliet restaurant
• Minooka High Board OKs Electrolux abatement
• Joliet’s borer war wages on
• Lockport Elks Lodge distributes children’s coats
• Joliet casino’s new manager brings wealth of experience
• Minooka High sets public hearing on school holidays
• Supreme Couurt rules cops need warrant for GPS tracking
• Pulse: Who’s to blame for Mojoes’ woes?
• Stanley: Chest pain a sign to slow it down
• Midewin opening bidding for cattle-grazing permits
• Fossil Ridge sets reception to introduce library leader
• Southwest police blotter: Grundy-area departments report arrests
• Police blotter: Plainfield cops nab woman for alleged theft
• JJC board to review plan for city campus
• Wilmington names volunteer of the year
• Joliet casino’s new manager brings wealth of experience
• Police blotter: Sheriff’s police arrest man on weapon charge
• Plan for online lotto sales irks gambling foes
• More competition from electric suppliers could save Romeoville money
• Mayor: Business is booming in Bolingbrook
• Chest pain a sign to slow it down
• Lawmakers mull freeing crowded prison inmates
• Manhattan mulls plan to cut electricity costs
• Poll: Online lottery sales
• Business briefs: New board members, promotions and honors
• South suburbs digging out after storm dumps up to 9 inches of snow
• Man who shot nail into his brain thought X-ray was a ‘doctor joke’
• Police: Joliet man threatened to kill Social Security staff
• Events postponed; street crews tackle snow cleanup
• Romeoville holds blasting levels at Hanson Materials Quarry
• Precipitation possible throughout weekend in Joliet area
• Broken wheelchair curbs Frankfort teen’s independence
• L-Way High Schools facing more tough budget decisions
• Will County meal deliveries cut to four days a week
• Loose coins help needy
• Food pantry helps 185 area families
• State police seize 6 pounds of pot during stop on Interstate 80
• Jailed Peterson could watch Lifetime movie about him
• Joliet’s snow-covered walks force pedestrians into the streets
• Water main work slows Jefferson
• Tilted Kilt to open Jan. 30 at Westfield Louis Joliet
• Will County official takes airport fight to Quinn: ‘You will not dump on us’
• New trash carts for Plainfield
• Lockport council: Nix water-rate hike
• Jailed Drew Peterson could watch Lifetime movie about him
• Trio accused of stealing diabetic test strips
• Briefs: Residents invited to meet with legislator
• 6 inches of snow possible Friday
• Rick Perry dropping presidential bid, backing Newt Gingrich
• Gov. Quinn to meet with Hillary Clinton
• U. of Illinois expects to hike tuition 4.8 percent
• Wesley Township crash injures two
• Neuro patients meet their heroes
• Man charged with carrying pot in packs
• Couple’s encounter has surprise ending
• JJC trustee: Scale back city center plan
• Then & Now
• State’s backlog of unpaid bills nears $8.5 billion
• Joliet and suburban live music events Jan 20th-24th 2012
• Poll: Brain injuries
• Summit Hill SD 161 mulls school closure
• Kendall sets new restrictions  for siting of waste facilities
• Sponsors needed for Will Co. Men Who Cook competition
• Channahon officials ready to get back to business after Cook sentencing
• Joliet club’s liquor license suspended after recent fight
• Sponsors needed for Men Who  Cook competition
• Early Days
• Police Blotter: Citizens detain suspect until cops arrive
• Police: Five recent robberies at local stores are connected
• Joliet parking ban ‘still a work in progress’
• Two charged with robbing Naperville pizza outlet, suspected in others
• Judge rules Wheaton mother who abandoned newborn unfit to raise him
• Joliet nightclub loses liquor licence after latest melee
• Killer of four left suicide note saying he was distraught
• Man suspected in deadly DuPage Co. fire found dead in Dolton
• FedEx to open distribution facility in Romeoville
• 3 to 5 inches of snow possible in north suburbs
• Channahon names Wold as police chief
• Critic says third airport could be fiasco
• Lockport alderman wants to nix water-rate increase
• Blaze destroys Romeoville business
• Board Announces Affirmation Of Strong Financial Rating
• Jailed man now facing charges he failed to register as sex offender
• Joliet mayor ‘not going to put up with’ trouble at nightclub
• Police: Jailed man facing charges for not registering as sex offender
• MLK holiday ‘a day on’ for Joliet
• Will County seeks input on zoning law revisions
• NIU to reopen Cole Hall, site of 2008 shooting spree
• Freezing rain, snow and cold snap in the forecast
• Jon Huntsman drops outs of GOP race, endorses Mitt Romney
• Joliet police say same pair committed weekend armed robberies
• Joliet church displays historic photo of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Police: Pair rob two stores
• Crest Hill residents content with railroad quiet zones
• Pulse: A salty tale for Joliet
• Coal City nurse honored
• Manhattan man was a caring cop
• Duo helping older residents
• Troy School District hosting forum on state standards
• Joliet nightclub fight injures 3
• ‘Cold and scared’ illegal immigrant calls Kendall Co. police
• Cubs roll out plan for patio deck, scoreboard in right field
• Man’s Facebook posts could be used against him in reckless homicide case
• Joliet landlord to be back in business after family ouster
• Police ID Plainfield driver killed in snowy crash
• County to offer testing for correctional officers
• Lockport Legends advance in First Lego League challenge robotics tournament
• CNR to buy system  to relay crossing info to 911 dispatch center
• Lagger appointed to new post at Saint Joseph Medical Center
• Wizards, Ballerz game to raise money for Woodland School basketball teams
• Black Road work not yet complete
• Parking ban difficult for some
• ‘No immediate threat’ of low-level radiation from Bed, Bath and Beyond tissue box holders
• Hundreds of kids get help from We Care
• New Lenox man, a high-ranking Latin King, gets 26 years on drug charge
• Two charged with manufacturing ‘Charley Sheene’ bath salts
• Poll: Resolutions
• Yorkville passes first contract with public works union
• Yorkville OKs agreement for River Rd. bridge work
• Bowling fundraiser to help injured Oswego Marine
• Bed, Bath and Beyond removes radioactive tissue box holders
• No new snow expected, but chilly temps on tap
• Channahon man doesn’t let age slow him in 50-mile runs
• 11 arrested in Aurora prostitution sting
• Traffic, crashes mark first big snow
• Dog dies in Joliet fire
• Man gets probation for sex with 13-year-old in Mokena
• Downstate man gets 20 years for sex with New Lenox teenager
• Phone bill clinic to be Wednesday in Bolingbrook
• Some Joliet-area schools canceling after-school activities due to snow
• Man who escaped on way to court dies in federal custody
• Joliet cancer center, Provena pleased with new partnership
• Martial arts training offered free to cops
• Years and miles can’t slow Channahon man
• Plainfield chamber set for State of the Village
• Chocolate Ball set to aid wish-giving group
• Jurors for accused killer Christopher Vaughn may see late wife’s emails, chats
• Boats burn at Seneca marina
• Yorkville: $10,000 incentive for people to build, buy houses
• Plan commission supporting new Lockport crude oil depot
• Foreclosures plummet in Will County
• Lockport’s Ninth Street plagued by graffiti
• Joliet vending machine dispenses a felony
• Then & Now: The Joliet Daily News
• Poll: Coyote spotting
• Michelle Obama: Tired of ‘angry black woman’ stereotype
• Obama: ‘Everything that we fought for is now at stake in this election’
• DUI charge for Shorewood man in crash that tore engine from car
• Burglary suspect turns self in
• Homer Glen may ban private wells near former gas leak site
• New Lenox family warns others after coyotes attack dogs
• Joliet plans to implement parking ban for Thursday snowstorm
• Center has scholarships available
• Digital land rush expected Thursday for new Internet ‘top-level’ domain names
• Vending machine dispenses a felony
• Prison time for man who molested little girl
• Judge rejects new trial for Steger man who killed boy in DUI
• Work day set to honor King’s spirit of charity
• Shorewood completes work in more unfinished subdivisions
• Yorkville to begin meetings on recreation sites
• Fisherman thanks firefighter who saved him
• Car rolls over, loses engine; driver charged with DUI
• Local groups get funding from BP grant
• Fisherman thanks Chicago firefighter who saved him
• Illinois gets $7.7 million in federal storm-repair aid
• New swine flu, drug-resistant strains arising
• Joliet woman forged insurance signatures
• Volunteer tax preparers sought
• Chicago woman gets 30 years for 2009 beating death of Joliet man
• Police suspect arson in string of Plainfield fires
• Leaking water service line repaired in Joliet
• Four hurt in Kendall County crash
• Metra says ‘we are sorry’ for Monday’s delays at Union Station
• New Lenox looks to tighten rules on weapon security
• Suicide prevention signs to go up in New Lenox
• What’s the fuss over the new Obama book?
• Grundy police charge pair with a spree of burglaries
• Plainfield motel fire investigation goes cold
• Joliet casino revenue down 5.1 percent
• We may break record for least snowy start to winter
• Switching problems causing Metra delays at Union Station
• Neighbors mourn Crete woman killed in Indiana crash
• Military helicopters in skies are part of preparations for Obama visit
• Man pleads guilty in fatal drunken driving wreck at Balmoral
• Mokena man charged with having sex with girl, 16
• Joliet casino revenue down 5.1 percent
• Wilhelmi opts out of controversial tuition-waiver program
• Police: Romeoville man, 29, had sex with 14-year-old
• Lab’s forensic check failure sparks fingerprints retesting
• Phone bill clinic to be Jan. 25
• Poll: State scholarship program
• Bill Daley out as Obama chief of staff, sources say
• Black Disciples leader who ran drug, gun trade, dead at 60
• County board OKs grants for USF, Illinois Extension
• New Silver Cross Hospital to host housewarming party
• Police blotter: Joliet man arrested after burglary
• Library events stave off the winter blues
• Joliet parks hosting party
• Pulse: Trouble in Camelot
• Joliet students celebrate birthday of Carl Sandburg
• Wilmington ‘Strongman’ staying fit at 60
• Body found in Plainfield Twp. ID’ed as missing man
• Eye-gouging attack hardly Joliet man’s first time in court
• Company proposing to build crude oil depot in Lockport
• Joliet bars pay past due fees to city
• Funds available for lead abatement
• Aurora soldier killed in Afghanistan
• Deer Ridge residents oppose homeowners’ association
• Will County’s Blackburn Awarded County Auditor of the Year
• Poll: Helping veterans
• Grundy inmate recaptured after fleeing Morris Hospital
• Joliet killer gets 61 years
• Man, 47, slain in Joliet
• Grundy County inmate escapes hospital, is captured in Shorewood
• President Obama lunches with campaign contest winners
• Apology follows email referring to Michelle Obama as ‘Mrs. YoMama’
• David Tutera coming to Rialto wedding expo
• Grundy kettle campaign sets a new record
• Police: Metal thief returns to the scene
• Plainfield North wins $10,000 grant
• Warm winter could cause growing pains
• Accident slows traffic in Joliet
• Fire damages pole building in Plainfield
• Stolen from Romeoville: $37K worth of gum, candy and mints
• Voter registration deadline is Feb. 21
• Pasta dinner benefits Joliet schools’ 99-year-old band program
• Joliet rental troubles prompt family to move out of town
• David Tutera coming to Rialto wedding expo
• 1 in 30 U.S. babies is a twin
• Joliet and suburban live music events Jan 6th-7th 2012
• Teens accused of Bolingbrook shoplifting spree
• Cops: Man tries to rape girlfriend in hotel room
• Teens accused of shoplifting spree
• Park board not entirely sold on city’s plan for waterpark
• Slammers, Joliet look to settle stadium lease
• Poll: Will you use high-speed rail to St. Louis?
• Four years after acquittal, Braidwood man pleads guilty to sexual abuse
• Joliet pub sets benefit for family of crash victim
• Alleged repeat DUI driver in court again
• $186M to fund Joliet-to-Dwight high-speed rail
• ComEd replacing Joliet cable to reduce outages
• Police: Man exposes himself at Joliet store
• Then & Now: J.D. Brown & Co.
• Bolingbrook school adds night classes to improve test scores
• Michele Bachmann ends campaign, says she’ll fight for issues
• Phil Kadner: Your chance to replace incumbents in Illinois
• Feds grant Illinois $186 million for high-speed rail project
• Ex-con from Bolingbrook charged with sex trafficking
• ICC to hear Camelot water fight
• Crash closes I-80 near I-55 for an hour
• Joliet firefighters rescue tiny dog from icy retention pond
• Body found in Plainfield Twp. preserve likely missing man
• Joliet police charge six with shooting to celebrate new year
• JCA schedules placement exam workshop
• Library’s ‘sleek’ design taking shape
• Police: Nephew gouges out man’s eyes during Joliet Township argument
• Plainfield school holds career day
• Lions Club delivers food to needy families
• Coroner IDs body found under viaduct
• Runaway case full of frustration
• Police Blotter
• Driver services to be available Jan. 17 at GSU
• Pricey picks: Powerball tickets doubling to $2
• Joliet family struggles with loss of home, jobs
• Police dog to retire after 10 years on Joliet force
• Economy, elections could mean rough 2012 in Illinois
• Coroner IDs homeless man’s body
• New year, new pocketbook pain for Southlanders
• Southwest blotter: Grundy-area police report arrests
• Your positive attitude could change the world
• Plainfield holds line on tax levy, but fees to increase
• Gunmen hold up Plainfield pizzeria
• Pulse: Extended holiday for Joliet City Council
• Review: Latest CD from ‘Second Season‘ takes band to ‘Another level’
• Local economy woes top 2011 review
• Joliet mall full of retail stories
• Foods class final is a tasty treat
• Snow shortage puts smiles on faces of local towns’ budget directors
• Trash pickup delayed, but trees accepted
• Police blotter: Meth worth $150K seized in Bolingbrook
• Wounded Marine welcomed home in Joliet
• Plainfield closes gas-tax loophole
• Lifetime movie on Drew Peterson captures his personality but takes some liberties
• Donations: Gifts, food distributed to Joliet-area children
• Space book is next Great Read pick
• Man convicted in fatal DUI crash gets another DUI in Joliet Twp.
• Police blotter: BB gun fired at Joliet Township homes
• Joliet bars, clubs and DJ’s New Years Eve parties
• New traffic light on Route 59 in Plainfield
• Three new projects solidify Joliet’s logistics dominance
• Police seek man who beat Pace bus driver
• Man convicted in fatal DUI crash gets another DUI in Joliet Twp.
• Stebic’s lawyer sues him for $10K in unpaid fees
• Dog’s Christmas Day slaying ‘so cruel’
• Frankfort woman charged in daycare swindle
• Joliet man survives often-fatal condition
• Capitol renovation uncovers oddities
• Longtime Herald-News reporter dies after battling cancer
• Green Lecture Series to resume in Plainfield
• Suburban NYE live music weekend 12/30th 2011-Jan 1st 2012
• Kendall sheriff’s office honored for finding missing children
• Bolingbrook man faces attempted murder charges in brother’s stabbing
• Run for the bedroom doesn’t work out
• Garbage collection fees to increase in Plainfield
• Troy School Board approves tax levy
• Cranky croc steals Aussie zoo worker’s lawn mower
• Back-seat riders required to buckle up starting Sunday
• Quinn: Ruling paves way for online lottery sales
• Fowl play: Taxidermied duck blown up in Joliet
• Coroner ID’s victim of Christmas fire in Joliet Township
• Romeoville hikes tax rate to try to bring in $1M more
• Visitation and aid group donates food and gifts to Joliet schoolchildren
• Plainfield board green-lights 340-apartment complex plan
• Attacker with shotgun wounds two Joliet men
• College funding seminar set for Joliet West
• Bolingbrook man sentenced to eight years for stabbing wife
• Accused of seeking sex with minor, Joliet defendant kills himself
• Probation for Joliet man who tried to kidnap 11-year-old
• Wilmington to spend $30K in support of Illiana Expressway
• Romeoville delays quarry expansion hearing
• Channahon cuts back on proposed tax increase
• Channahon wants I-55 interchange upgraded
• Police blotter: Romeoville men charged with burglary
• Fatal Joliet Twp. fire believed accidental
• That outdated electronic gear? Wait, don’t toss it
• Illinois to create independent tax appeal tribunal by 2013
• Minooka: Local hearings for local violations
• Poll: Happy returns?
• Fatal Joliet Twp. fire believed accidental
• A bumpy road for Illinois
• Minooka won’t increases taxes on residents
• Grundy-area police report recent arrests
• Heart-warming stories fight off winter’s chill
• Braidwood station workers give to charities at holidays
• A bumpy road for Illinois
• Coroner: Murderer’s body going unclaimed
• Woodland School wins $50k in national contest
• Police: Woman too drunk to care for baby on Christmas
• Christmas morning blaze leaves man dead in Joliet Township
• Bolingbrook High schedules freshman orientation
• Pulse: Pay now or pay later for Splash Station?
• Vickroy: Lockport girl collects shoes for Haiti kids
• Felony charges in Will County for couple who ran prostitution ring in NW Indiana
• ‘One last hurrah’ in Joliet for Silver Cross Hospital
• Wrong list equals two errant late-night calls
• Cops honored for efforts to save driver
• Police Blotter
• Woman finds faith through despair
• Homeless man found dead under Joliet overpass
• Bail set at $1.25 million for Joliet man accused of fatal stabbing
• ‘Santa’ brings toys to kids at local hospitals
• Poll: Snow for Christmas?
• Obama quickly signs payroll tax cut after congressional approval
• AU hosts Lincoln Civil War exhibit
• Walgreen, Safeway join stores pulling formula after infant death
• Judge drops Glasgow from cop’s lawsuit
• Robbers hit Yorkville pizza parlor
• Kids delight on Polar Express
• New Simulation Man offers real-life training
• Hollywood Casino in Joliet getting new gm
• Police Blotter: Parole sweep nets two on drug charges
• Joliet man charged in stabbing death of man who came to help woman
• Rockdale man police say raped his roommate arrested in Minnesota
• Forest preserve to recycle trees
• Brian Stanley: Santa, how about some good stories for Christmas?
• Brides getting refunds from closed Lemont venue
• Poll: Payroll tax deal
• Alcohol-related road fatalities decline in Illlinois
• White Christmas unlikely for Chicago area this year
• Unemployment fell in 43 states in November
• Families send Christmas video messages to their sons at war
• Police arrest Rockdale man for alleged rape of roommate
• Police arrest parolees on drug charges
• Joliet plans to lease new radio system
• Geoken Group looks to light some Joliet streets
• Munns ruled off Kendall board ballot for shortage of signatures
• Police: Illicit meeting ends in shooting
• Woman faces robbery, ID theft charges
• Police seek Rockdale man  for alleged rape of roommate
• SEC charges ex-Bear Gault with fraud
• Man kills himself, hours before he was to plead guilty to sex crime
• Poll: Stolen credit cards
• Van driver cited in crash with school bus in Orland Park
• Celebrating science: Girl Scouts take aim at ‘gender bias’
• Joliet West student puts tech  skills to use for Christmas
• Age, no name for man killed by train
• Joliet won’t let gas station owner leave
• Rehab employees climb tower
• Gunman grabs cash register from Joliet bakery
• Nearly 60,000 Illinoisans could lose unemployment benefits
• Four ‘Felony Lane’ smash and grab suspects arrested in Naperville
• Kendall Board will declare a vacancy in District 1
• Police: Lockport man taped minor in bathroom
• Joliet students sing at Silver Cross
• Joliet welcomes furniture resale shop with vote for approval
• Joliet could break free from water park debt
• Fire displaces family in Homer Township
• Naperville OKs annexing Islamic Center property
• Poll: Christmas shopping deadline looms
• 4 ‘Felony Lane’ smash and grab suspects arrested in Naperville
• Summit Hill District 161 hires Barb Raines as superintendent
• Judge calls effort to get new trial for Blagojevich ‘harebrained’
• Judge calls Blagojevich motion ‘harebrained’
• Kirk endorses Romney for president
• Developer completes unfinished subdivision in Shorewood
• Minooka High School wants tax deal to rule out appeals
• Kendall County gives Electrolux tax break
• Public works group gives back to community
• Marines returning from Afghanistan say it's good to be home
• Grundy-area police report recent arrests
• Three best friends embrace H.U.G.S’ mission
• Grundy County Board members reject changes to insurance plan
• Kendall County gives Electrolux tax break
• Naperville man named veteran of month
• Minooka High School wants tax deal to rule out appeals
• Man injured in Joliet crash dies from his injuries
• Pulse: Glasgow character absent from Lifetime's Drew Peterson movie? 
• Joliet school shoots hoops for heart
• Forest preserve awarded grant to fund projects
• County reorganizes vets group
• Man with disability tells kids his story
• Education foundation gives L-Way schools $250,000
• Cornerstone CEO retiring
• D’Arcy honored by St. Francis
• Grundy County staying tough on drivers
• Statewide ban looming on synthethic marijuana
• Police blotter: Man arrested on DUI charge
• White Oak Library District  raising funds for computers
• I-80 crash claims caring friend
• Family Fun Zone opens in Crest Hill
• Grundy County bans synthetic marijuana
• Grundy County to require referendums to sell bonds for construction
• Quinn signs tax break bill to keep Sears, CME in state
• Joliet native Rudy settles SEC stock fraud allegations
• CrimeStoppers seeks tips on burglary, mailbox damage
• Minooka native in new TV show
• Developer completes unfinished subdivision in Shorewood
• Police blotter: Homeless man charged with assault in Joliet
• Signatures challenged, Will County Board member Deutsche goes independent
• Police blotter: Homeless man charge with assault in Joliet
• Will County Pledges Support For Art And Education
• Welcome planned for Shorewood soldier
• Students mix it up, meet new kids at lunch
• Residents save, win free electricity
• Police dog fired after attacks
• Joliet woman’s teen fan letter part of new Roy Rogers book
• Fireworks show is primary victim of funding cuts
• Grundy County ballots take shape for primary
• Illinois’ unemployment rate down, slightly
• Riley Fox’s parents say P.I. who’s suing them lied about FBI ties
• L-Way Central student wins bridge-building contest
• Avery YMCA holding gala
• Lewis honors its top donors
• Teen wins bridge-building contest
• Plainfield teachers earn certification
• Police: Stalker won’t leave woman alone
• Driveway is wrong way in attempt to get away
• Brouhaha over resale store plan not an isolated incident in Joliet
• No new trial for woman who called out judge’s kids’ Facebook friends
• Herald-News is moving back to Joliet
• Timber Ridge to hold fundraiser
• Then & Now: Chicago and Cass streets in Joliet
• Alden Takes Rehab to a New Level
• Feds subpoena Joliet housing authority records in Evergreen Terrace case
• Minooka couple wins big in Illinois Lottery
• Riley Fox’s parents say P.I. who’s suing them lied about FBI ties
• Woman suing Crete-Monee schools after daughter punched by special-needs student
• FBI: Joliet man fenced 200 stolen golf clubs
• Bolingbrook cops ID man they say hijacked TV truck
• Insurance switch will save Morris $39,000
• Thursday deadline for New Lenox tax rebate
• Now, you can ‘like’ #JolietPolice
• Plainfield completes some water system upgrades
• Poll: Regulating resale shops
• January concert set for New Lenox
• Obama salutes troops’ ‘extraordinary achievement’ to mark end of Iraq war
• Homer Glen man offers $20K reward in theft of safe
• Time names ‘The Protester’ as ‘Person of Year’
• $20K reward in theft of safe
• Drive seeks items for troops
• Three rescued from Bolingbrook retention pond
• Charges: Joliet man sent naked photos to minors
• Romeoville helping Lewis get $28M in revenue bonds
• Judge’s kids’ Facebook friends at issue in bid for a new trial
• Cook, suburban counties seeing outbreak of Whooping Cough
• Californian picked as new JJC president
• Blagojevich gets another month till he must report to prison
• Energy assistance funds still available for needy families
• Joliet area bar events for the week of Dec 13th-18th 2011
• NTSB urges national ban on cellphone use while driving
• Report: Illinois failing to help young offenders
• Family loses one of famed Will County quadruplets
• Joliet police: Domestic abuser flees on bike to avoid arrest
• Help available for those in danger of losing their homes
• 20 digital signs slated for Joliet
• Poll: Are vets getting enough help?
• Family loses one of famed quadruplets
• Crest Hill man who left child porn at Joliet college gets 4 years
• Iraq war vet rescued from frigid Joliet river
• Ill. House reconsiders closing pension loopholes
• Obama: ‘Our war in Iraq ends this month’
• Gov. Quinn, others react on call for Chicago split
• Plainfield man injured in Iowa hunting accident
• Joliet firefighters, police rescue man from frigid Des Plaines River
• Yellow dot materials available in Grundy
• Southwest Weekly: Grundy-area police report recent arrests
• Minooka students raise money, awareness for diabetes
• Peter Claver Center accepting  applications for Tots distribution
• Police blotter: Woman charged with aggravated domestic battery
• Pulse: Councilman honors Joliet cops for busting burglars
• Joliet woman appearing on ‘Price is Right’
• Pulse: Compliments to the chef
• Food pantry sets dates
• CERT training grads ready to face danger
• Joliet family’s misfortune inspires mom to organize blood drives
• Toy exhibit a trip down memory lane
• Police blotter: Joliet woman charged for drug possession
• Retiring cop shares memorable tales
• Poll: About the blood supply
• Three from Crest Hill dead in New Lenox crash
• Wheatland Township approves funds for Dial-a-Ride program
• Police: Joliet couple arrested for severely beating 3-year-old boy
• Jackson Jr. rep seeks third-airport support in Channahon
• Minooka schools to offer full day for kindergarteners, preschool pupils
• Fire damages Channahon home
• Contingent from JCA attending the March for Life pilgrimage
• Foundation set to host trivia day
• 1st snowfall of season leads to several fatal crashes
• GOP U.S. reps looking to small business owners for answers
• I-PASS software snafu causes account errors
• First snowfall of season leads to several fatal spin-out crashes
• Weather blamed in two fatal crashes in Will County
• Elgin college expo attracts hundreds of jobseekers
• Couple’s hotel fight leads to drug charges
• Will County sheriff’s deputy charged after dust-up with cop
• Brian Stanley: Frankfort mom calls cops on her kids
• Joliet looking at scaled-down mosquito abatement
• Will County taking to the skies to count Homer Township deer
• Drew Peterson Lifetime movie starring Rob Lowe sets air date
• Mahnattan Village Center plan lauded
• Stolen bicentennial flag returned to JJC — 35 years later
• Will Co. to recount deer in two Homer Twp. woods
• Will Co. sheriff’s deputy charged after dust-up with cop
• Show aids Big Brothers
• Poll: Drew movie a draw?
• Joliet and suburban Chicago live music events Dec 9th-12th
• More than 3,700 civil unions issued in Illinois in first six months
• Dept. of Labor sues Romeoville cleaning firm over unpaid wages
• 7-year sentence in fatal DUI case
• Derailment puts CN Railway under microscope
• Local artists’ work is now on display
• Joliet area lawmakers react to Blagojevich sentence
• Thief brings a BB gun to rob bakery in Joliet
• Union board member’s residency questioned
• Minooka bans fake pot
• ‘Sorry’ Blagojevich gets 14-year prison sentence
• Ingalls/Oakland intersection to be closed
• Then & Now: Joliet’s Boston Store
• Joliet bans on-street parking in snow
• Retiring officer helped Joliet police switch unions
• The public invited to judge trees
• Poll: Snowfall parking ban
• Local lawmakers react to Blago sentencing
• Crest Hill to put sales tax hike to referendum
• Forecasters say season’s first real snow expected Thursday night
• Channahon trustees urged to hold line on taxes
• Role-playing exercise
• Joliet resident takes part in Washington protest, wants more jobs
• New life for landfill’s gas
• Joliet police sign on to new notification system
• Cops: Arrests thanks to alert woman
• City passes budget, hopes for concessions
• Joliet urged to give shop ‘fair shake’
• Poll: Business in Joliet
• Donations fund kids’ shopping spree with police
• Morris legislator visits JJC class to discuss state’s taxes and debt
• Paula Deen to open eatery at Harrah’s Casino in Joliet
• Singer offers Yorkville a hometown concert for holidays
• Morris outlaws synthetic marijuana
• Southland libraries delve into e-reader mystery
• Joliet man charged in attack on his mother
• Apartment complex plan advances in Plainfield
• Channahon debates filling administrator position
• Police: Victim pulled into bathroom for sex abuse
• Joliet to vote on banning all on-street parking in snow
• Trucker was key to finding escaped inmate
• Entrepreneur: ‘Joliet doesn’t want us at all’
• Joliet: Budgeted union concessions not ‘close’
• Blagojevich’s sentencing judge known for impartiality
• Molinare switching boards from SD 161 to SD 210
• Will County to offer household pick-up and drop-off sites for electronics recycling
• Will County pols line up for 2012 primary ballot
• Plainfield, Will Co. cops conduct sting on invalid licenses
• Entrepreneur: ‘Joliet doesn’t want us at all’
• Accomplice sentenced to 61 years for Channahon murder
• Will County pols file for primary ballot
• Channahon mistake creates telecom tax
• Obama makes case for extending payroll tax cuts
• Joliet’s Timothy Jones remembered for spreading the word with gospel radio
• Grundy-area police report recent arrests
• Trivia Mania raises $4,000 for Illinois Special Olympics
• FFA plans to create  community garden
• Fifty-plus years of wedded bliss shared at Joliet party
• Police arrest 3 teens for alleged burglary attempt
• Pulse: Street to honor State Rep. Jack McGuire?
• Living Nativity
• Pulse
• Plainfield to set tax levy
• Veterans clinic on pace for 2013 grand opening
• Man spread the gospel
• Joliet family searching for closure  after man slain in drive-by shooting
• Joliet urged to acquire Evergreen Terrace complex
• Oak View book fair to be at Promenade
• Poll: Community college?
• JJC presidential finalists put their skills on display
• Your money is safe at Ally, so switch ... if you dare
• Principal for a day finds experience ‘a blessing’
• From music to medicine, Hughes looks to excel
• Provena Saint Joseph looks to be ‘hospital that people look up to’
• Woman, 53, stabbed to death in Bolingbrook home, son arrested
• Joliet urged to try to acquire  Evergreen Terrace complex
• Pace wants to add six bus shelters
• Cain to make announcement Saturday; aides privately expect he’s out
• Elwood police reportedly bust pot-growing operation
• Truck rollover backs up traffic on I-57 near I-80
• Escaped inmate captured in portable toilet in Rockdale
• Police: Angry boyfriend kills woman’s bird
• Woman, 53, stabbed to death in Bolingbrook home
• Rep. Jackson probe will continue, House ethics panel says
• Judge: Blagojevich sentencing will take two days, even if lawyers wrap up sooner
• Escaped inmate seen in Rockdale, uniform spotted in Homer Glen
• Former Plainfield school custodian gets 15 years for child porn
• Lockport man convicted of beating elderly father to death
• ISU locking up .xxx domain names
• Herman Cain to make campaign announcement Saturday
• Joliet and suburban live music Dec 2nd – Dec 6th 2011
• Freight train derailment shuts Archer, disrupts Metra
• Freight train derailment disrupts Metra traffic
• Joliet to revamp plan that toughens reporting for used-goods dealers
• Joliet nixes liquor licenses for bars that haven’t paid city fees, bills
• Poll: Liquor licenses
• Plainfield school supt. sets coffee events
• Joliet nixes liquor licenses for bars that owe
• JJC hosting holiday concerts
• Pet pig shot in Homer Glen survives ‘close call’
• 4 sought in connection with Plainfield school break-ins
• Crest Hill to upgrade tornado siren system
• Cops: Mad about divorce, man menaces ex-wife
• New Lenox kicking off holidays Sunday
• Fare takes taxi driver for a ride
• Students compete to eat well
• Township collecting gifts for seniors
• Quinn: Sears help ‘more than adequate’
• Poverty rates rise among area schoolkids
• New budget keeps Ellis Equestrian Center open
• Suspicious man approaches Lockport kids before school
• Writer: Walter Payton ‘had flaws like we all have’
• Joliet schools crown top speller
• Mokena teachers to file ‘intent to strike’ notice
• Then & Now: Porter Brewing Co.
• ‘Special’ Christmas gifts land Calif. woman in Will County Jail
• Homer Glen residents trying to stop deer kill
• Cain presses ahead with bid
• Appeals court must consider evidence against Drew Peterson
• At funeral, Schultz remembered as dedicated family man, faithful public servant
• Kendall sheriff latest police department to join Facebook
• Poll: Walter Payton’s reputation
• Participants sought for Joliet Nativity set show
• Business wants sign work-around
• Tax rate to rise for Channahon schools
• Man charged with raping girl before moving from Monee
• Local bar review: Paulie’s Pub in Joliet
• Yellow dot can help save lives
• Give Blagojevich 15 to 20 years in prison, prosecutors urge judge
• Channahon, Joliet schools to share tax attorney
• A John Wayne Gacy victim finally identified — three decades later
• Animal magnetism
• St. Joe’s to host group from France
• Cops: Woman hits robber with car
• A Gacy victim finally identified — three decades later
• Will County traffic stop leads to Calif. pot bust
• Firefighters battle four house fires in Joliet area
• Plainfield wants better financial reports from beer fest organizers
• Wilhelmi: Gaming bill ‘a next-year issue’
• Community pays respects to Schultz during visitation
• Poll: Holiday shopping
• Business workshop Thursday in Plainfield
• Plainfield’s school district seeks $195M
• Rod Baker Ford wants to build auto shop near Plainfield Meijer
• Wind, rain to whip area; snow possible to south
• Plainfield looking at hike in water rates
• Shorewood bans video gambling
• Cash Dash program Wednesday in Shorewood
• Quinn: Budget deal will keep state mental health centers open
• Poll: Should failing group homes be shuttered?
• Kendall OKs budget after several votes
• Aurora man charged; allegedly had sex with girl, 13, in Mokena
• Recycle holiday lights
• Three rescued in Joliet fire
• Man faces charge of sex abuse
• Shorewood bans video gambling
• Grundy Democrats announce 15 county board candidates
• Police: Aunt Martha’s home not keeping boys out of trouble
• Schultz remembered for citywide support
• Channahon advances senior housing plan
• Hearing Monday for Plainfield apartments
• Raiders get their day as Bolingbrook welcomes home state champs
• Minooka High levy up as revenue declines
• Joliet fire causes ‘severe damage’ to apartment building
• Mokena soldier: Welcome home celebration amazing
• Proud police service part of Schultz legacy
• Mokena soldier: Welcome home celebration amazing
• Northwestern tops list of most vegan-friendly colleges
• Grundy-area police report recent arrests
• Coal City Festival of Trees to benefit Promfest
• Minooka fire and police earn scholarships
• Close call emphasizes value of stranger danger program
• Pulse: Gaming back in Springfield again
• Title game loss doesn’t dampen JCA fans’ fervor
• Church introduces new translation of prayers
• Christmas season off to a bright start
• Joliet looks to restrict stolen goods at pawn shops, thrift stores
• Students and residents can give Minooka school officials anonymous tips
• Long-time Joliet mayor Arthur Schultz dies at 78
• First couple to throw a party for couples married 50 years or more
• Creative little elves
• Police blotter: Man accused of sexually assaulting 19-year-old
• Companies give GOP, regulators different messages
• Police blotter: Man accused of sexually assaulting in-law
• Poll: Heading to the stores?
• Police: Black Friday shoppers in Joliet being good
• Words of mass are changing
• Maggie Daley, Chicago’s gracious first lady
• Public memorial for Maggie Daley set for Sunday
• Romeoville man runs red light, crashes into vehicle near Oswego
• Stanley: Keep your car, and you, safe this winter
• Keep your car, and you, safe this winter
• Minooka plans to extend builder stimulus program
• Black Friday not a bleak Friday for some locals
• Bicentennial Park funding cut jeopardizes annual fireworks
• Braidwood expands into Grundy County
• Joliet fire, police radio upgrade would cost $4.8 million
• Accused Yorkville officer resigns
• JJC announces finalists in search for new president
• Police blotter: Bolingbrook man charged with burglary, theft
• Markham man charged with murdering NIU student from Park Forest
• Joliet closes Millsdale Road through Sunday
• Minooka resident charged in hit-and-run crash that seriously injured man
• Joliet mulls spending $4.8 million on radios for police, firefighters
• Joliet woman gives thanks for service agencies
• Shooting survivor charged with Lockport Twp. murder
• Poor economy no speed bump for Thanksgiving travelers
• Poll: Hitting the road?
• Joliet kicks off holiday season with parade
• Plainfield couple make a connection with a transient Joliet man
• ‘Doctor Who’ fans have other plans than shopping on Black Friday
• Off-duty Joliet officer foils alleged burglars
• Unemployment help for business owners
• IDOT opens some lanes
• Thigpen drive raises $21K for students with cancer
• On a mission to help the homeless
• Police: Joliet postal worker stole mailed credit cards
• Townships could step up after Joliet nixes mosquito spraying
• Police blotter: Wilmington police charge man with aggravated battery
• Elwood contributes to holiday clothing, toys and food
• Board Denies Cargo Container Variance In Channahon
• Poll: Helping those in need
• Man breaks into Kenny Williams’ downtown home, defrosts lobster
• Tony Rezko sentenced to 10-1/2 years in kickback scheme
• Firefighters’ food drive a big help to Lockport pantry
• Channahon tax hike likely
• Kendall looking at subdivision’s request for lower speed
• Quinn touting report on gambling expansion
• Jesse White launches top-to-bottom review of disabled placard abuse
• JCA schedules annual open house
• Four new appointments at one Troy Township meeting
• Joliet council rejects costly forensic audit
• Area business owners want Manhattan to spend locally
• 13-year-old Joliet girl reported missing
• Students help out at animal shelter
• Thief claims to be HN staffer
• Pot plant stolen during drug buy
• Owner: Someone tried to kill horse
• Police: Guard using gun in graveyard
• Primary looming, Jackson faces ethical cloud
• Will County Board Passes Balanced 2012 Budget
• Santa set for holiday event
• Tables turn for job seeker
• Poll: Looking for work?
• President Obama to sell jobs plans to New Hampshire electorate
• Pulse: Joliet area workers want jobs, city says they are coming
• Lemont native, NU grad named Rhodes Scholar
• Chess helps young adults with special needs learn life lessons
• Gunman robs pair at Joliet ATM
• Being grateful this Thanksgiving
• Lewis University opens history center
• Pulse: Bridging the jobs gap
• Police Blotter: Man arrested by Romeoville police on charge of vandalism
• New Lenox board honors  volunteer response team
• Poll: Shopping plans?
• Joliet school  celebrates win of $50,000 grant
• Channahon native wins Chicago Emmy award
• Grain exports are booming
• Romeoville approves new cable franchise fee
• New Lenox police cadets shop for needy students
• Joliet cuts include elimination of mosquito spraying program
• Church home to new center for learning
• Property tax hike not expected to be severe
• Officials uncertain about timetable regarding new Joliet train station
• Nonprofits earn $125K in grants
• Family Fun Zone deemed  a winning name
• School PTO is collecting  for needy local families
• Pent-up demand drives up Thanksgiving travel: AAA
• David Izzo Joins Board Representing District 2
• Will County Board Seeks To Negotiate Lower Electric Rates For Residents
• Dance teachers say ‘Dancing With the Stars’ bringing more students into their studios
• Aldi brands hold up in taste tests with New Lenox folks
• Missing Orland Township man OK
• Police make arrests for drug possession, suspended licenses
• Troy Township Highway Dept. job a family matter
• Police looking for missing Orland Township man
• Company, church, club help We Care food pantry
• High school foundation gives grants
• Police blotter
• Highway dept. job a family matter
• Joliet board mulls forensic audit of finances
• Tinley man admits to having sex with 13-year-old
• Joliet police Santa Cops pins on sale
• Train strikes construction vehicle; two workers injured
• Poll: Occupy protests
• Protesters rally for jobs in Joliet
• Elwood seeks to upgrade police equipment
• Wilmington council rejects referendum on dissolving park district
• Elwood finances look good
• Smucker recalls jars of chunky peanut butter
• Filmmaking a real scream for Mokena man
• JCA collects tons of food for pantries
• Kids try to pass ‘law’ on ice cream
• Plainfield braces for more construction
• Sex offender arrested after entry to high school
• Joliet police: Gang members steal from charity funds
• Recycling efforts improve in Joliet, thanks to better carts
• Then & Now: Scott and Clinton streets in Joliet
• Poll: Do you miss the NBA?
• No change? That Salvation Army bell ringer might take plastic
• Three decades later, woman recalls finding teen girl’s body in forest preserve
• New Lenox trumpets low tax levy rate
• Panel to interview applicants for JJC president
• A bad time for man to jaywalk
• Study: Ill. ranks high in taxes on poor families
• Family’s gift to the city
• Nettle Creek students are top notch
• Van crashes in alleged police chase
• Joliet chipping in for shared rescue boat
• Catholic Charities of Joliet readies for transition of foster care cases
• Exchange clubs hosting program
• Forest preserve buys land
• Plainfield gets look at budget woes
• Joliet man makes generous donation to Silver Cross
• Bolingbrook man on trial for sex assaults on teen girls
• Post office near default? Losses mount to $5.1B
• Poll: Postal problems
• More Illinois birth certificate rules take effect
• Church variance request mulled by Plainfield board
• Philadelphia prison popular with tourists — could Joliet be next?
• Congress pushes back on healthier school lunches
• Catholic Charities ends civil unions dispute
• Joliet keeps crossing guards on payroll, but cuts their pay
• Alleged dealer’s attorneys: Show us the missing heroin
• Fox Valley eaglets get new home at Starved Rock State Park
• Poll: Giving more to charity this season?
• Chicago moves to ban synthetic marijuana after mother’s plea
• Yorkville wants leaf-burning limits strengthened by Kendall County
• Man accused of using knife to threaten girl
• Trinity Services union staff protesting for better wage
• Alleged drug dealer’s attorneys: Show us the heroin
• Raising a stink
• Herald Angels helping those in need
• Supreme Court to hold pre-election health care showdown
• Festival of Trees coming to Rialto Square Theatre
• Supreme Court will hear argument on Obama health care law
• ‘60 Minutes’ airs report on Former House Speaker Hastert, Prairie Parkway
• Plainfield woman robbed by 2 men in Lily Cache Plaza
• Grundy-area police report recent arrests
• Premature birth a terrifying experience for mom
• Tow trucks haul gifts for needy kids
• Pulse: U.S. Rep. Lipinski blasts Rick Perry
• Kinzinger, Halvorson face protests from opposite political groups
• Yard waste collection to end in Joliet
• Local police report recent arrests in Will County
• Masked gunman strikes store in Joliet mall
• Drive-by shooting kills Joliet man, injures three
• Case of amnesia victim found in Joliet to be featured in show
• Copper sword stolen from statue at Lincoln’s Tomb
• Illinois lawmakers punt on pensions as $85B liability grows
• Joliet man was a true Renaissance figure
• Braidwood, Exelon to sign wastewater agreement
• Recycling event to be Tuesday in Elwood
• Prairie Parkway part of ‘60 Minutes’ report Sunday
• On the run in Homer Glen to support the troops
• Crest Hill gives honors to Marine Corps
• Springfield’s gambling stalemate working in favor of Joliet casinos
• Reuniting heroes with their medals
• Joliet police lieutenant returns from Iraq
• Local cops give ammo, cars to their downstate brethren
• Plainfield teachers’ pay frozen for a year
• Morris chief hopes to replace retiring officers
• Mobile food pantry helps feed the hungry
• Local cops give ammo, cars to their downstate brethern
• Cellini: Toss guilty verdict after juror didn’t disclose convictions
• Will County Board likely to add local attorney
• Joliet observes Veterans Day with patriotic program
• Police Blotter: Missing Crest Hill woman found unharmed
• Plainfield police garner award
• Bolingbrook Dem seeks re-election
• Proposed storage facility stalls in Plainfield
• Prairie Parkway part of ‘60 Minutes’ report Sunday
• Police seek Lockport man charged with beating child
• More Illinois counties added to tree-killing beetle quarantine
• Next battle after the war zone: Joblessness
• Quinn still plans to close Tinley mental health center by July
• Businessman named to hospital commission
• School hosts fundraiser for students
• Quick-change thief tricks clerk at Joliet gas station
• Airport wants to lure company jets
• ‘Wonderful lady’ turning 100 on 11/11/11
• 11/11 birthday makes Veterans Day twice as nice
• ‘Super golden birthday’: Plainfield boy turns 11 on 11/11/11
• Injured pilot salutes veterans’ valor
• Will board rejects $1M budget add
• Poll: Veterans Day
• Will County foreclosures down from 2010
• I-80 lane closures expected this weekend
• Morris backs plan to widen Route 47
• Mark’s toy drive lives on, kicking off 11th year early
• Nixon’s long-secret Watergate testimony coming out
• Grundy County Board adopts balanced budget
• Minooka High to give detection dog a trial run
• Will County budget talks entering final stages
• Goodson Completes Leadership Academy For Local Government Officials
• SUV romp leads to drug charges
• Tumors return to 4-year-old Yorkville girl
• Dad’s death leads to medical innovation
• Court supports Kane County’s plan not to chip, neuter animals
• Lockport detective honored
• Joliet Job Corps students, staff volunteer
• Poll: Did you eat any candy on Halloween?
• Doctor says President Obama in ‘excellent health’
• New Crest Hill site hits a snag for White Oak Library District
• Needy Will County families can apply for Thanksgiving basket
• Food drive seeks to aid veterans in need
• Chicago area couple buy ‘Field of Dreams’ site
• Herman Cain tells Fox News he was ‘falsely accused’ of sexual harassment
• Southwest Blotter: Police report recent arrests
• Channahon’s recycling champion Danny Pryor retiring
• Pulse: High-tech race for Will Co. circuit court clerk
• Saddling up for Halloween
• Job fair to be Nov. 9 at Daybreak Center
• High-tech campaign for circuit court clerk
• Joliet Christian Youth Center adapting to financial challenges
• Joliet taking part in nationwide broadcast alerting system test
• Joliet’s 2011 savings nearly enough to cancel 2012 deficit
• Police ask public for help with solving burglary
• Poll: What about the extra money?
• Frankfort girl tours with musical
• New Age Event Promotes Awareness
• Trivia night to benefit Special Olympics
• First 2 graduates to come out of mental health court
• Safety check required despite Plainfield’s school deficit
• Witches’ Night Out in Joliet conjures cash for nonprofit groups
• Joliet’s Woodland Elementary wins $50K from U.S. Cellular
• Emerald ash borer confirmed in Shorewood
• Kane Dems’ fundraiser draws congressional hopefuls
• Yorkville’s Lyon Farm to host Halloween event Sunday
• Yorkville OKs sewer bonds to stretch payments
• KenCom whole again — almost
• Vigil raises awareness of domestic violence in Kane, Kendall
• Illinois American Water seeks another rate hike
• Joliet man to celebrate 100th birthday
• Free diabetes awareness program to be Nov. 5
• Task force investigating homicide
• Police blotter: Teenage Plainfield neighbors charged with theft
• Illinois American Waer seeks another rate hike
• Two men in custody after burglary, manhunt in Frankfort
• Joliet house gets addicts ‘back on track’
• Rob Blagojevich wants to speak to ethics panel about Rep. Jackson
• Minooka backs Smartgrid
• Joliet budget going online Friday
• Illinois lawmakers say no gaming compromise in the works
• Police: Electrocution victim was stealing copper from wires
• New Lenox raises property tax rebate
• Bad performance leads  to ‘dumb’ man’s arrest
• Firefighters battle tank fire
• Officials pushing for more trains on Joliet’s future high-speed rail
• Poll: Will you eat a McRib sandwich before it is off the menu?
• The McRib makes a McComeback
• Bolingbrook man pleads guilty to 2009 stabbing of Romeoville man
• Illinois Senate overrides Gov. Quinn’s veto of ComEd rate-hike bill
• Chili benefit Nov. 4 at Plainfield North
• ATF boss unfazed by gun probe
• Joliet family won’t let thieves ruin free haunted house
• States take Asian carp case to Supreme Court
• Biggert will run; Cunningham might be on ballot, too
• Ex-Woodridge cop held without bond on theft charges
• In New Lenox, mayor now can perform marriages
• Ex-Goldman board member pleads not guilty to fraud
• Higher water and sewer fees coming to Shorewood
• Riot squads clear Wall Street protests in 2 cities
• New Lenox garners finance reporting award
• St. Joe’s named among best for neurosciences
• Food pantry drop-offs in Shorewood
• Two local responder teams rank highly in competition
• Joliet gas station stop yields 3 arrests
• Minooka group hosting Halloween film night
• Bomb squad defuses grenade found in downtown Joliet office
• Troy Township opposes Camelot water rate hike
• Calls for Channahon mayor to step down after tax fraud plea
• Supreme Court blocks release of taped Will County jail calls in DUI case
• Will and Grundy towns set 2011 trick-or-treat hours
• Manhattan lauds duo’s history work
• Briefcase: Lemont dentist wins mastership award
• Poll: Joe Cook’s guilty plea
• Plainfield approves medical office building
• Will County Project Pride inducts four new members to hall of fame
• Open house Tuesday on future high-speed rail route
• Plainfield ponders response to emerald ash borer
• Plainfield OKs snow removal contracts
• Tomczak wants to subpoena Glasgow over jail call tapes
• Quinn names D’Arcy to Toll Authority
• Quinn appoints Illinois transportation secretary
• Aurelio’s sues Frankfort franchise operator
• Odell teen killed in Grundy crash
• Witches’ Night Out to be Thursday
• Officers hurt in chase through Shorewood, Plainfield
• Buses to drive on I-55 shoulder to bypass traffic
• Will County worried about new dumping rules
• Obama offers mortgage relief on Western trip
• Romero gets 30 years for 2008 attempted murder in Joliet
• Poll: Should unlined quarries accept construction debris?
• Elwood’s next top cop aims for community interaction
• Romeoville residents to vote on electric rate plan
• Ill. lawmakers gear up for busy fall veto session
• Retired couple logs 100,000 miles on bikes
• Recycled materials ‘green’ Channahon parks
• Bolingbrook parks leader Hoster-Suggs dies from cancer at age 44
• Pulse: State legislators to discuss gaming in Springfield
• Man killed in ambush in Joliet
• Channahon teen dies from heart condition
• Hoster-Suggs dies from cancer at age 44
• Joliet police to focus on bad drivers with new program
• Today’s poll: Paying for water
• Man threatens to kill girlfriend and police in standoff
• Organic garden opens in Joliet
• Will plan to hike water rates leave  suburbs paying for Chicago’s repairs?
• Oak View school to hold veterans breakfast
• Lockport mayor’s veto of roadwork study survives vote
• Formerly missing WWII airman set to be buried
• Union school board didn’t OK job for leader’s wife
• Board Urges Governor, Legislators To Carefully Consider Hospitals Property Tax-Exempt Status
• County’s Master Plan Would Save Money, Help Maintain Solid Financial Rating
• Board Rolls Up Sleeves To Work On 2012 Budget
• Joliet police: Arrestee slips out of cuffs, car
• Prosecutors want Supreme Court to halt handover of jail recordings in fatal DUI
• Channahon mayor takes leave from government group
• Museum mixes beer, history
• Prosecutors want Supreme Court to halt handover of jail recordings in fatal DUI
• Thieves now pick up on pickup truck tailgates
• End in sight to KenCom funding dispute
• Childhood Lead Program takes part in Saturday health expo
• Police blotter: Plainfield teen charged with hit-and-run
• Local theater guild staging opera short
• Joliet CROP Walk set for Sunday
• Braidwood plant to store used nuclear fuel outdoors
• Pace to hold hearing on I-55 routes
• Winfrey Appointed To National Employment Committee
• Seiler-Zigrossi Appointed To National Human Services And Education Committee
• $250,000 in heroin missing from Will County evidence locker
• I-80 ramp closes this weekend
• Romeoville man in Friday premiere of animal phobia TV show
• Pingpong club gets game on at Joliet auto shop
• Will County board members have ‘healthy’ tax debate
• Poll: Union pay raises
• Illinois to seek waiver from No Child Left Behind
• Hill Memorial Center celebrates 35th anniversary, Singleton
• Lisa Madigan says she’s concerned about gambling expansion
• Channahon officer honored for undercover work
• Morris sees city finances improve
• Crest Hill honors Richland baseball team
• Goals set for New Lenox School District
• New Lenox school finances get high marks
• Illinois jobless rate hits 10 percent
• Police blotter: Joliet police charge man with motor vehicle theft
• Clerk keys in on domestic violence
• CARE hosts Appalachian coal-mining presentation
• Fender bender repeat offender
• Then & Now: Jefferson and Chicago Streets in Joliet
• Wilmington Fire Department to host open house
• Haunted House for Charity
• Judge rules suspected child killer fit to stand trial
• Police: Sex offender was robbing homes
• Union pay hikes may be postponed, not eliminated
• Channahon and church officials to meet over unfinished building work
• Joliet says either no new Cook Co. casino or put it near Indiana
• Joliet bill payers will get 24/7 automated phone service
• High winds expected Wednesday afternoon
• WJOL hosts win award from MADD
• Women honored for volunteering
• HAJ sign-up to be Saturday
• Incentives OK’d for strip mall
• Blotter: Joliet police charge Texas man with battery, restraint
• Event inspires older workers frustrated by job search
• Autobahn 5K Plus Race
• Shorewood man on trial for alleged sex assault of juvenile jail inmate
• Talk follows local soldiers in Civil War
• Electrolux moves distribution center to Minooka
• Emerald ash borer found in Morris
• JJWC hosts Halloween Family Fun Fair & Expo on Sunday
• Obama on reason for N.C. visit: ‘I’m the president’
• Lower electricity rates coming to Morris
• Channahon resident objects to pending tax increase
• Truck with equipment for Obama tour stolen
• Gov bets on veto; deals plan to scale back gambling bill
• Open house Wednesday at Provena Romeoville facility
• Electrolux moves distribution center to Minooka
• Plainfield rejects bids for water main project
• Lincoln-Way Transition House helps give special-needs students a brighter future
• Gov. Quinn says he’ll back scaled-down gambling expansion
• Poll: Does the Chicago area need more casinos?
• Gov. Quinn says he’ll back scaled-down gambling expansion
• Girl seriously injured by teen driver in Minooka
• Cass Street developer wants sales tax rebate, TIF incentives
• Lockport officials at odds over road study
• Channahon teen believed drowned in kayak accident
• Women’s health fair Saturday in Plainfield
• Joliet officer charged in off-duty attack
• Obama moves to make jobs bill more appetizing to Congress
• Nuclear unit offline for refueling, maintenance
• Joliet leaders say Quinn casino plan still too broad
• Valley View offers preschool screenings
• Will Co. firefighters tactical unit gears up in training
• Police blotter: Man arrested on theft charges by Will County police
• Southwest blotter: Grundy police reports arrests
• Joliet man was dedicated to faith and family
• Area firefighters use house for training
• Wilmington firefighters to host open house
• Pulse: Plainfield School District waives rental charge for campaign event
• Local students win awards at ISU tech conference
• Amtrak rider nabbed in Naperville with 45 lbs. of pot
• Officials, storage company battle over stacking containers
• Grundy to offer electronic recycling event
• Joliet firefighters on pancake shift
• Poll: Considering resale?
• ATF arrests 3 Joliet brothers on weapons, robbery charges
• ReStore a vital lifeline for Habitat homes
• New fun center to be family-friendly
• Unsightly or a necessity?
• Group’s new award named after Walsh
• Union School District high on hiring family
• Farragut fundraiser rallies to reach its goal
• Kendall struggles to balance budget
• Business Briefs: Special event for older workers
• Trial recording: Cellini a ‘nervous wreck’ over alleged pay-to-play deal
• Southwest notes: troop donations, e-waste recycling and motorcycle run
• Amtrak passenger nabbed in Naperville with 45 lbs. of marijuana
• Boys, girls club reopens after flood
• Kendall struggles with budget balancing act
• ‘Radioactive’ fridge found near Coal City
• ‘Party game’ death video released
• Cops: Cary man used gator to guard marijuana operation
• Jarrett Payton shares ‘most important’ lessons with Elgin youths
• Terry D’Arcy’s dealership earns Ovation to Business Award
• Politicians try to get handle on Wall Street protests
• Meeting Tuesday: High-speed rail plans to affect Braidwood
• Shorewood to employ new mapping system
• Plainfield schools OK contract with support staff
• Shorewood to employe new mapping system
• Scouts raise money for pediatric unit
• Plainfield women pick up cars won on ‘Oprah’
• Police: Duo stealing tires from commuters
• Ex-Herald-News editor pens book about 1980s Joliet killer
• Troy Township community fights 212% water-rate hike
• St. Joseph Academy to host Oktoberfest
• Bolingbrook man charged in hit and run crash
• Poll: Cop sues over false accusations
• State Police: Three horses wandering down I-355
• Writer launches vampire book at Friday fundraiser in Joliet
• Ripped from our headlines
• House Democrats warn supercommittee against cuts
• First Midwest announces deal to buy Old National deposits, Joliet branch
• Convicted murderer on trial on charges he tried to have witness killed
• Grundy prosecutor seeks order against veterans panel
• Signal slated for River Road
• State OKs merger of Provena and Resurrection Health Care
• Nonprofits bear burden of Illinois’ unpaid bills
• Minooka seeks reimbursement for sidewalk projects
• Grundy County tables action on landfill expansion
• History of Kendall County housed in new museum
• Grundy County wants to see Route 47 widened
• Grundy County sets referendum on electicity buying program
• Minooka referendum could bring lower electric rates
• Launch is served at kids’ rocket event
• Joliet police arrest man accused of shooting girlfriend in ambush
• Bolingbrook man allegedly threatened teen for sex act
• Cops: Burglar’s mom acts as getaway driver
• Health fair to be held at Romeoville School
• Then & Now: Dellwood Park in Lockport
• Joliet woman found not guilty in ‘party game’ death
• Planned Bolingbrook dialysis facility wins approval from state
• Farragut school goes pink for breast cancer
• Today’s poll: The Startz verdict
• Bones of 8 John Wayne Gacy victims secretly exhumed
• New chapter in Frankfort tobacco store burglary drama
• Video equipment missing from Joliet's Silver Cross Field
• Wilmington panel debates increasing number of liquor licenses
• Pumpkin decorating contest set in New Lenox
• Republican senators vote to kill Obama jobs bill, tax increase
• New Lenox looks to future of its water supply
• Shorewood OKs contract with new administrator
• Joliet set for tree trimming
• Protesters march against millionaires
• Exchange Club lauds two Joliet firefighters
• New Singleton school impresses Joliet staff, students
• Police Blotter: Body found in lake confirmed as Shorewood man
• Joliet hospital labor dispute headed to a hearing
• Joliet: Who took stadium video equipment?
• Road construction hassles a threat to area businesses
• Poll: Bolingbrook dialysis
• Joliet looking for a Christmas tree
• Pile of autumn leaves still plenty of fun
• Are you occupying Wall Street?
• NEW YORK — Hundreds of protesters, emboldened by the growing national Occupy Wall Street movement, streamed through midtown Manhattan on Tuesday in what they called a “Millionaires March.” They marched two by two up the sidew
• Chicago protesters march against groups ‘that wrecked the economy’
• Former state’s attorney fined $400 for forest preserve violation
• Former Will County State’s Attorney Tomczak pleads guilty in deer culling spat
• Teens accused of attacking teachers in Joliet
• Joliet man charged in fatal liquor store shooting
• Rules for getting rid of Joliet yard waste
• Plainfield mulls closing part of Oak Street for retail development
• Minooka grade schools to run own special ed program
• Plainfield takes early look at next year’s budget
• Joliet’s economic protest starting out small
• Who’s paying for sinkhole?
• Police blotter: Man robbed outside Bolingbrook store
• Board Informs Public Of Enbridge Pipeline Survey Work
• Notre Dame switching from sheepskin diplomas
• Will County records first human West Nile case of year
• Glasgow offers training on gang awareness
• Wilmington nears vote on liquor license changes
• Beloved pet goat dies before being allowed to come home
• Joliet sees decline in citywide casino revenues
• Family entertainment center coming to Crest Hill
• Shorewood picks new village administrator
• Romeoville residents to see tax rebate on water bill
• Early Days
• Joliet’s oldest school building is a limestone classic
• Pulse: Joliet Diocese continues legal fight with state
• Police: Body found after boat accident may be local man
• Southwest Notes: Free showing of ‘Green Fire,’ Troy shredding event
• Bright Star Awards: Minooka, Channahon schools shine
• Joliet musician always  believed in tomorrow
• We Care taking applications for holiday help
• Race track advocates push slot machine bill
• Man killed in crash on Route 59 in Plainfield
• Joliet’s oldest school  closing after 128 years
• Today’s poll: Slots go to the races
• Office store gives teachers supplies
• Kinzinger to run for re-election, but which district still a question
• Hit-and-run driver fractures man’s skull in Joliet
• Study: Teen smoking dips in Will County
• Students preserving prairies
• Towns near KenCom deal
• Educators gather at IMSA on workplace readiness
• When marathon runners strip, homeless people benefit
• Police blotter: Plainfield man missing
• State grant spurs construction of special recreation center
• Joliet Chamber to honor former Mayor Art Schultz
• Joliet’s Take Back the Night event shines light on abuse of women, kids
• Joliet tech students win awards
• Chamber will honor Schultz
• 10 years in Afghanistan: Long war, deep scars
• Police blotter: Joliet 20-year-olds face weapon and liquor charges
• ‘An army that fights violence’
• Joliet man charged in fatal hit-and-run
• Little change predicted in next year’s Will County tax bills
• Payton’s son inspires Joliet West freshmen
• In announcing congressional run, Halvorson slams Jackson
• Will County to collect same amount of property taxes as last year
• JTHS teacher’s Cut for a Cure event to raise cancer funds in Shorewood
• A MANS man: Lieutenant retires from sheriff’s office
• Judge considers throwing out case in ‘party game death’
• Slammers fix Silver Cross Field in lieu of paying rent to Joliet
• Mad dad turns domestic battery call into drug bust
• Lockport and Coal City fire stations host open houses
• Joliet police ID type of vehicle in fatal hit and run
• Little change predicted in next year’s Will County tax bills
• Senate Democrats rewriting Obama’s jobs bill
• Romeoville OKs new rules on fences and parking
• Romeoville man honored for efforts during industrial accident
• Joliet shredding event canceled Saturday
• Historic group taking survey older buildings
• Dirty jobs
• Police: Joliet officer busts family that stole his identity
• Oh, No You Didn’t: Suspect complains cops earn too much for bribes
• Police blotter: Joliet Township home catches fire
• Shot at age 9, woman returns to fight for Joliet’s East Side
• Halvorson to challenge Jesse Jackson Jr. for Congress
• Then & Now: The third Will County Courthouse
• Cruise Night on Friday in downtown Joliet
• Deficit-saddled Joliet likely to do without new equipment
• Joliet suing sanitary district, claiming unpaid bills
• Event: Eco acts can save money
• Orland Park police seek suspected jewelry thief
• Halvorson to challenge Jesse Jackson Jr. for Congress
• Channahon mayor denies credit card misuse
• Tax break in casino law may cost schools $100M: study
• Senate Democrats rewrite part of Obama’s jobs bill
• Plainfield to sell outdated village equipment at auction
• Plainfield rejects pay raise for future village trustees
• Plainfield enacts penalties for mob action
• Man to testify how fellow inmate wanted him to kill prosecutor
• Joliet man sexually exploited a child
• OSHA cites Mokena business for exposing workers to hazards
• Metra train strikes vehicle in Tinley Park
• Police blotter: Gun fired during Joliet fight; teens charged
• Will animosity for gold stores nix Joliet jewelry shop plan?
• New Lenox police holding coat drive
• Poll: Chicago casino plan
• OSHA cites Mokena business for exposing workers to hazards
• Missing hit-and-run driver took life of mother of five
• Brothers, 2 others arrested in Friday robbery
• Casino bill may cost schools over $100 million over 2 years: study
• Halvorson to decide this week on Jackson challenge
• Crashes snarl traffic on northbound I-55
• Benefit to help Frankfort man who has 14 children
• Former County Commissioner Peraica behind bars for being late for court
• Casino bill may cost schools over $100 million over 2 years: study
• Blotter: Crest Hill dad accused of brain-damaging infant
• Man pleads guilty, woman’s trial starts in ‘party game’ death
• Halvorson to decide by end of week whether to challenge Jackson Jr.
• Keep radio stations kid friendly
• Joliet’s Singleton school named for ‘a great man’
• Joliet to seek cheaper power
• Crest Hill breast cancer fundraiser is teen’s brainchild
• Cook County sues Channahon and Kankakee over sales tax ‘scheme’
• Civil union law prompts secularization of Joliet’s Guardian Angel
• Help for those with hearing loss
• Poll: Should certain TV and radio ads only air after 9 p.m.?
• Crest Hill party death: ‘stupid act’ or crime?
• Rocks and plants stabilize Hickory Creek bank
• Wall Street protesters enter 3rd week
• Obama: Congress should vote on jobs bill in Oct.
• Southwest calendar: Fish sale under way in Grundy County
• Grundy and Morris police report recent arrests
• Troy school  to add BRAVE  new program
• Troy’s budget a slight increase from last year
• Candlelight vigil, walk held to honor Crest Hill teen slain in shooting
• Plainfield Twp. seniors get tour of firehouse
• Skunked again, but at least the house doesn’t smell
• Cass Street TIF district up for vote
• ‘We all miss Anthony’
• Impact fees on table for subdivision sale
• Police arrest teen pair for alleged burglary spree
• Pulse: ATI’s ties run deep at Joliet stadium
• Joliet woman killed in hit-and-run crash
• Hydrant flushing to start in Crest Hill
• Brian Stanley: Officer recalls one wild ride as a backseat driver
• Housing complex fight wages on
• Officer recalls one wild ride
• Venerable field gets a name tweak
• New mission statement OK’d for White Oak Library District
• Bolingbrook man gets 20 years for stabbing death after 2009 Christmas party
• Police: Shop owner arrested for armed threat
• Construction worker killed when truck backs over him
• Poll: Will Joliet win the fight to condemn Evergreen Terrace?
• Fermilab pulls the plug on Tevatron
• Shooting victim survives; suspect on the lam
• Auroran convicted of attempted murder of neighbor
• TV Prevue insert Sunday
• Joliet forgery suspect in custody before case is assigned
• Will Co. coroner rules drugs factor in drowning of Oswego woman
• Bolingbrook man gets 20 years for stabbing death after 2009 Christmas party
• More Hispanics listed themselves as white on U.S. Census
• State to mark Walk to School Day on Oct. 5
• Warrants: Have you seen these Will County fugitives?
• Polar Express tickets on sale to benefit CASA of Will County
• Morris seeks floats for its light parade
• Tollway: 12 workers stole as much as $25,000 in tolls
• Poll: Property tax proposal
• Joliet Park District to announce corporate sponsorship
• A gunman on Rialto roof? Performance art nixed by theater
• Will County sheriff losing his third in command
• Republicans fight tax increase in Walsh’s Will County budget
• Preservationist: Joliet must repair ‘shabby’ Union Station
• Joliet district to dedicate new Singleton school
• Extension offers rocket workshop in Joliet
• Police: Woman shot by ex-boyfriend
• Walsh’s Will County budget calls for property tax increase, meets GOP resistance
• Shorewood to finish roadwork in Kipling’s Lake Forrest subdivision
• New bank in town of Shorewood
• New car wash OK’d for Plainfield
• Forest district sets bike program
• Duo couldn’t bear to pay
• Two-year-old gets clothes hanger stuck in his mouth
• Commuters: Chicago tax is off the rail
• Sisters of St. Francis cuts ties with Guardian Angel Home
• Disciplinary panel wants Blago license suspended
• Plan pulled for East Side pawn shop
• Night of entertainment in Joliet
• Joliet school competes for $50K
• Plainfield schools see deficit budget
• More than 80 arrested in Illinois during criminal alien crackdown
• Park district offers organic garden plots
• Seniors invited to info fair
• Joliet school locked down for hour after shots fired nearby
• Shorewood move could cut electric bills
• FBI agent’s gun recovered after theft in Plainfield
• Joliet police say man shot ex-girlfriend’s new beau
• Hiring controversy in New Lenox
• Postal workers rally in Joliet
• Slammers’ champion trophy on Joliet tour
• Joliet police: Man shoots ex’s new beau
• FBI agent’s gun recovered after theft in Plainfield
• United Way takes aim at a  prosperous new campaign
• Duck race to benefit Valley View schools
• Poll: Slammer fans
• Man gets life for Lansing killing
• Trade agreement with Taiwan  a boon for Will export business
• Hiring of out-of-state economic expert sparks debate in New Lenox
• New Lenox OKs tax increases
• Channahon police take 2nd in state traffic contest
• Prosecutors must turn over jailhouse recordings of man in fatal Steger DUI wreck
• Joliet resident going to burn camp
• Retired teacher honored
• Chicago aldermen eye tax on suburbanites who work in city
• New Lenox man hopes re-enlisting in Navy Reserve inspires others
• Watchdog questions comptroller, treasurer raises
• Channahon schools recognized with finance award
• Joliet native mourns wife killed days after wedding
• Vandals damage 14 cars in New Lenox
• Elwood pegs Hayes as top cop
• Joliet officials: Sales tax hike not expected to hurt business
• Blago’s fate is delayed
• Report: Illinois could be short $8.3B this year
• Poll: Are bed bugs a concern here?
• Live theater  leaves Ottawa  for downtown Yorkville
• Panel OKs plan for downtown Joliet parking garage
• Widow of Joliet Fire lieutenant suing I-80 construction firm
• New Lenox police: Vandals damage 14 cars
• Couple suing Hollywood Casino Joliet and hotel, saying room had bedbugs
• Kendall GOP officials announce re-election bids
• Kendall equestrian center draws rave reviews from young riders
• Cemetery supporters raising money for Lincoln statue
• ‘She was a beautiful girl’
• No charge for rescuers at local farm
• DuPage GOP chairman pleads guilty to DUI
• Snakes alive! Man finds a python under his truck hood
• IDOT hiring 16 supervisors during budget crisis
• Fire damages Romeoville complex
• Fire damages Romeoville complex
• Cemetery supporters raising money for Lincoln statue
• Energy company gives Joliet school new athletic equipment
• Parking rates to increase this week at Mokena’s Metra lots
• I-55 ramp at Route 129 to be closed
• Pulse
• Joliet Township High School Board goes paperless
• Energy company gives Joliet school new athletic equipment
• Southwest Blotter: Two cars vandalized in Morris
• Southwest calendar: Braceville church coordinates all-town garage sale
• Local Oktoberfests prove tradition’s global appeal
• Neighbor helps police arrest two burglars
• Gas main work to close some downtown Joliet streets
• Elwood Business Park proposal discussed
• Parking garage plan to be unveiled
• Angels to walk against abuse
• Dream makers to be honored
• From scrap yard to rail yard: How Will County became an intermodal giant
• Snakes alive! Man finds a  python under his truck hood
• Hoo-Ray! Two earn JJC’s highest honor
• Study: Rialto’s economic impact $7.5 million
• Obama lets states opt out of federal school rules
• Big Brothers Big Sisters recognized
• Democrats Jackson, Davis and Rush: GOP may be right about new congressional map
• Police blotter: Feds make $18K cannabis bust in Bolingbrook
• Romeoville updates building fire code requirements
• Former Lockport fire chief dies
• Silver Cross names new docs
• Former local fire chief dies
• Arrest Warrants: Have you seen these Will County fugitives?
• Police blotter: Naperville man charged with retail theft in Will County
• Joliet fall victim on ventilator
• Joliet to offer document shredding
• L-Way East classmates gather to ‘Finish Pat’s Path’
• Poll: The Slammers season
• Slammers’ winning season a stark contrast to JackHammers’ fall
• College tour brings lieutenant governor to JJC
• Former Lockport Township fire chief dies
• Bachmann cancels Will County appearance
• Legion leader honored as hero in Braidwood
• Five Joliet sites host Worldwide Day of Play activities Saturday
• From JCA to CBS: Emmy winner got acting bug at Joliet school
• Police seek muggers who attacked 10-year-old girl
• Joliet man critically injured in 50-foot fall at closed steel mill
• Real estate firm owner was generous JJC benefactor
• From JCA to ABC: Emmy winner got acting bug at Joliet school
• Crest Hill to begin hydrant flushing Oct. 4
• Historic Lockport bridge limestone to be used for fundraising
• Morris to get tough on repeat traffic violators
• Shorewood approves its third police chief
• Joliet man critically injured in 50-foot fall at shuttered steel mill
• Warm temps, sunny skies lead to high mold counts
• Joliet council defends tax vote
• Morris signs on to electicity purchase program
• Walsh says he’ll run in 14th, pitting him against Hultgren
• Pleasant $800,000 tax surprise lands in Morris
• Man pleads guilty to murder in slaying of Darien family
• Former DuPage chairman candidate joins race in 84th District
• Another gold store facing tough opposition in Joliet
• Police blotter: Joliet man charged with drug possession, delivery
• Joliet approves tax hikes by 5-4 votes
• Rutherford defends brochure
• Poll: Would more interodal taxes drive away business?
• Will County’s neighborhood stabilization program lauded
• Warning: Fees could drive intermodal business out of Will County
• Crest Hill to get two railroad quiet zones
• Bachmann to appear at Homer Glen Tea Party rally
• Trafton named Joliet police chief
• Hung jury in case of Joliet man accused of 2009 murder
• Unpaid taxes close Finnegan’s pub in Plainfield
• Joliet’s Mills Road crossing to close for railway work
• Romeoville High’s new sport: Demolition derby truck racing
• Former DuPage chairman  candidate  joins race for 84th District
• Kendall considers vote not to fill recorder, auditor positions
• Hatcher seeks third term in state House
• Vaccine effective only 3 years
• Plainfield sends storage unit proposal back to drawing board
• Crest Hill City Council debates bill-paying process
• Channahon OKs new tax on telecommunications
• Police blotter: Garage fire spreads to vacant house in Joliet
• Joliet votes Tuesday on multiple tax hikes
• Illinois Supreme Court won’t free Peterson
• Goodson Named To Leadership Post On County Board
• Board Provides Temporary Support For Regional Office Of Education, Decries Governor’s Unfunded Mandates
• On the catwalk
• Oil pipeline an economic boon for Will County or environmental disaster?
• As economy sinks counties pick up tab for unclaimed bodies
• Police: Bolingbrook man taped sex abuse of 6-year-old
• Braidwood to install benches around town
• Joliet workshop: Learn how to expunge or seal your criminal record
• JJC creates president-search profile
• Cheney: ‘Scooter’ Libby didn’t deserve prosecution by Patrick Fitzgerald
• Study: Whooping cough vaccination fades in 3 years
• Obama on deficit: ‘We can’t just cut our way out of this hole’
• Joliet council to decide on Cass Street tax incentives
• Wilmington OKs agreement to avoid city worker layoffs
• Police: Man dies after fight at group home
• Will County Heritage Festival a glimpse back in time
• Goodyear gives Shorewood Marine and family a blimp ride over Chicagoland Speedway
• CROP walk to be Sunday in Frankfort
• PULSE: Goat remains on the lam in Will County
• Minooka Marine gets honorable sendoff
• Last week to buy tickets for L-Way raffle
• Race car carries special message
• Poll: Nascar racing
• Joliet teen attempts escape from police
• Vigil planned for cross country runner fatally struck by car
• Get free admission to Joliet musuem
• Some stories worth a follow-up
• Joliet transit center plan up for bids
• Astronauts visit Joliet Central
• Grundy hires county administrator
• Harvest hampered by subpar weather
• Metra eyes fare increases averaging 26 percent
• Signal work begins at dangerous Kendall site
• Lincoln-Way East cross country runner fatally struck by car
• Cast votes in quiz on fire safety
• Two men charged in New Lenox gas station holdup
• Yorkville looks to spring for Rt. 47 widening
• Joliet Grade School Board says goodbye to Richard Rodriguez
• Shorewood looks to refinance bonds for Village Hall
• New Lenox police set  to host workshop
• Accused of serial burglary, trio arrested by Joliet police
• Life in the fast lane: Visitors make camp at Chicagoland Speedway
• Race Fan Rally last pit stop before Joliet’s Nascar weekend
• DUI charge follows Joliet crash
• Pond near scene of Palos Twp. slayings searched
• Shoppers line up for grand opening of hhgregg store in Joliet
• Man gets 105 years in prison for Minooka shooting
• Will County to give regional school officials monthly stipends
• McAsey to offer Senior Celebration in Romeoville
• Joliet nixes gold store; pawn shop plan tabled
• Poll: Sports fans
• Walsh: Will County wants airport authority before any more state funding
• Shorewood inks pacts with Joliet on wastewater treatment and boundaries
• Shorewood gives OK to new auto repair shop
• Fundraiser supports breast cancer foundation
• Civil War re-enactors do battle at Minooka farm
• Forest preserve breakfast emphasizes value of grants
• Plainfield Township starting leaf program
• Blotter: Assault after terrorism arrest not a hate crime
• Channeling my inner Richard Petty
• Oh, No You Didn’t: Golf cart theft suspect makes a swim for it
• Prosecutor: Daughter-in-law lured local senior to her death
• Joliet neighbors fighting pawn shop, gold store
• New JJC campus center named after late leader Proulx
• Then & Now: Joliet’s Woodruff Hotel
• Plainfield Rotary plans golf outing
• Correction
• Grand opening party set for Joliet preserve
• Judge to rule on jail phone calls in Steger fatal DUI case
• Appellate court hears Kendall landfill case
• Valley communities ponder next move on KenCom system
• Drug court program graduates 13
• Joliet primed for NASCAR madness as Chicagoland hosts Cup kickoff
• Judge to rule on jail phone-call issue
• Injured by bomb in Afghanistan, Plainfield soldier in U.S. hospital
• Police blotter: Joliet infant suffocates in bed with parents
• Environmental Network invites new members
• Poll: Nascar fans
• Crest Hill woman slain; daughter-in-law charged
• Early Days
• Smoke on the waters:   Minnesota-borne haze wafts to Illinois
• Police: Teen charged with murder had threatened parents previously
• Wilmington to pay for school crossing guards
• Rialto fundraiser sells celebrity-signed items
• Plainfield prepares to battle emerald ash borer
• Plainfield purchases driving simulator for teaching purposes
• New Lenox residents weigh in on building, tax proposals
• Frankfort man who survived WWII POW camps dies at age 87
• Blotter: Joliet-area narcotics squad arrests two teens
• U.S. attorney: Speak up on corruption
• 9/11 memorial plaza in NYC opens to public
• Oberweis makes it official: He’s running for State Senate
• Lawsuit claims Joliet police killed woman’s dog
• Free citizenship workshop Sept. 24 in Joliet
• Private eyes suing Riley Fox’s parents over unpaid bills
• NASCAR car wash making its national debut here this week
• Pair charged in Frankfort dealership burglary
• Braidwood fire district honors past in station renovation
• Bolingbrook man facing drug charges arrested for domestic battery
• Democrats: Illinois would receive millions under Obama plan
• Romeoville’s Mistwood Golf Course to undergo $6M renovation
• Don Gould to run for re-election to Will County Board
• Rock Run Rookery in Will County set to open
• Lockport recalls the days of the World War II era
• Joliet remembers Sept. 11
• Crest Hill OKs loan to improve city sewer linings
• Pulse
• Man slain in Joliet shooting
• Lockport celebrates World War II Days
• Joliet looks to trim budget with outsourced crossing guard plan
• Joliet priest loved the  people he served, taught
• Yorkville Patriots Walk draws man who had just left New York in ’01
• Moms help military families cope
• After attacks in 2001, Lockport grad enlists
• Pot-growing found in house after car crashes through wall, killing man
• Answering a call to serve
• Car crashes through house, killing Lockport Twp. man
• Woman shot in attempted robbery at Orland Square Mall
• South Rowell to close for rail crossing repairs
• School commemorates Sept. 11 with event for Joliet police, fire
• Joliet’s casinos lose revenue to new Des Plaines business
• Poll: Are we safer now?
• Blotter: Joliet man allegedly threatens bank manager over ATM card loss
• 9/11 prompted Frankfort fighter to join Army as teenager
• Minooka High nixes social-networking policy
• Crest Hill cracks down on fake charities
• Elderly Will County man victim of ‘common con game’
• Community college retirees draw hefty pension checks
• New York, Washington beef up security after unconfirmed al-Qaida bomb plot
• President Obama lays out $450 billion jobs plan
• Black Pride picnic and parade this weekend
• Giarrante on horseback to marshal Mexican parade
• Blotter: Joliet man faces charges of carrying drugs, eluding police
• Officials chase unconfirmed al-Qaida bomb plot
• Channahon residents worried about their taxes, not mayor’s
• Crest Hill, Local 150 agree on contract
• Collins St. development talk: ‘Let’s think big’
• President Obama lays out $450 billion jobs plan; asks Congress to act fast
• Union: Rialto funding could pay for Joliet worker raises
• Will health department offering flu vaccine clinics
• Will County may give school chief $1,000 a month till state pays her
• Poll: Do use Joliet culture centers?
• Orland Park site for walk to honor teacher killed by drunk driver
• Local album release to help fallen firefighters
• Joliet’s Gallery 7 exhibiting photographer/author’s work
• Joliet shelter’s Box City of Hope to raise awareness of homeless
• Volunteers earn tournament funds
• Audio files reveal 9/11 confusion, horror faced by air traffic controllers
• Men steal $10K from Jackson Twp. senior
• Briefs: Monthly food pantry event held on Monday
• White powder creates scare at Kendall health building
• Mexican Independence Day to be celebrated with parade, festival
• Woman arrested, accused in multiple fraud cases
• Cheerleaders aim to help less fortunate
• Joliet teen fleeing police shoots own thumb
• Channahon mayor gets public defender
• Defendant wants tax dispute lawsuit moved to Will County
• Area events in honor of the 10th anniversary  of Sept. 11, 2001
• L-Way Central students  to get a Reality check
• White powder scare shuts down Kendall health dept. offices
• Music, mustaches entertain at Joliet indie rock festival
• Channahon mayor will get publicly-paid attorney, working on plea deal
• Hollywood calls Frankfort Square teen
• Mokena selling Metra parking tokens
• Yorkville woman pleads guilty to swiping $113,000 from banks
• Gov. Quinn says legislature’s budget forcing him to make ‘reductions’
• U.S. Rep. Kinzinger tells Chamber fewer regulations means more jobs
• Joliet mayor’s deficit plan includes $7M in new taxes
• Early Days
• Shooting victim to be charged with drug crime
• Woman helps others with law after losing her dad to cancer
• Kinzinger: Create jobs by cutting regulations
• Quinn says legislature’s budget forcing him to make ‘reductions’
• Joliet to test fire hydrants
• Local police departments face civil suits from two arrestees
• Salvation Army expands Joliet center
• Woman help others with law after losing her dad to cancer
• Joliet Catholic Academy names new faculty, staff
• Provena staff named top docs
• Quinn says legislature’s budget forcing him to make ‘reductions’
• Coupon clipper amasses $1,400 donation for shelters
• Charitable coupon clipper amasses $1,400 donation for shelters
• Weekend ATV crash kills 23-year-old in Crete Twp.
• New Lenox plans new buildings, higher sales tax
• Small world: Chinese visitors tour exotic Lockport farm
• Firefighters lead Frankfort parade
• Cops: Driver had 6 drinks before crash
• State officials: Join fight to close local waterways
• New precincts for Will County voters
• Lockport audience gets advice from CN officer
• Bird in New Lenox tests positive for West Nile virus
• Panel to talk school district consolidation
• Health fair planned at Laraway School
• Minooka schools prep for new education laws
• Poll: Do you do couponing?
• Grundy-area police report arrests
• Morris garden club hosting half-price membership drive
• Southwest community: Morris 9/11 event, Elwood Cruise Night and more
• Rittof is Minooka Lions Volunteer of the Year
• Minooka Marine gets surprise send-off before overseas deployment
• Slaying suspect dies after being shot by police in Lockport
• Pulse: Silver Cross VA plan heals partisan wounds
• Small world: Chinese visitors tour exotic Lockport farm
• Joliet police suspect arson in vacant home fire
• Joliet police arrest 16 men during prostitution stings
• Gompers’ 9/11 memorial will honor Joliet police, firefighters
• Parade will be part of Race Fan Rally in downtown Joliet
• Firefighter with well-known name joining Joliet Grade School Board
• Hanover Park murder suspect dies after police shot him
• Will County registers buyers  for Nov. 21 real estate tax sale
• McAsey to offer shredding event
• Shotgun blast leads to three arrests in Joliet
• Joliet group’s meetings seek uses for vacant Joliet prison, steel mill
• New Lenox plans new buildings, higher sales tax
• District finalizes land deal  for future Crest Hill library
• Towns in KenCom fund fight to vote on counterproposal
• Joliet Will County Project Pride seeks hall of fame nominees
• Parking and multifamily housing part of plan for Plainfield’s central section
• Halvorson may run against Jackson for 2nd Congressional seat
• Oberweis will run for State Senate
• 9/11 victim’s parents: Private Yorkville couple understand public place in history
• Police blotter: Shotgun blast leads to three Joliet arrests
• Poll: Should Channahon stop businesses from using it as a tax haven?
• Minooka man killed in I-80 motorcycle crash
• Halvorson to challenge Jackson in 2nd
• Heavy storms possible as cool front hits heat
• East Joliet fire captain in right place at right time
• Visiting B17 in Romeoville takes WWII vets on flight to the past
• Visiting B17 takes WWII vets on flight to the past from Romeoville
• Valley View seeks volunteers
• Police: Joliet man raped mentally disabled woman
• Police blotter: Homer Glen woman accused of stealing $38K from employer
• Workshop helps create end-of-life directives
• Police: Wilmington man raped mentally disabled Joliet woman
• Orland Park man charged with soliciting sex from minors
• Plainfield beer fest a success
• Diocese picks education group leader
• Tension over JJC building name
• Fire captain in right place at right time
• Interim Joliet police chief nabs suspect
• Minooka, Channahon to mark 9/11 anniversary with services
• Joliet cops: Drug dealer stabs thief
• One reported hurt in apartment blaze near Joliet
• Lemont man charged in fatal Orland Park crash
• Cops find man on lam from sex abuse charge
• Jury’s verdict shocks family: dad not guilty in baby’s death
• Plainfield shop getting fresh start
• Motorcyclist caught going 111 mph along Route 59 in Naperville
• Interim chief nabs suspect
• Channahon mayor staying mum on tax charges
• Cops: Drug dealer stabs thief
• Styx sets show at the Rialto
• Bolingbrook man found innocent of suffocating son
• Jackson Street bridge reopens
• Murder suspect tried to pay fellow inmate to kill prosecutor, authorities say
• Shorewood offers job to interim chief
• Then & Now: Will County Civil War monument in Joliet
• Joliet combining two council meetings
• Yorkville man’s death draws Kendall investigation
• JJC to begin search for new leader
• “Hauler Parade” added to Race Fan Rally
• Lewis U. aviation program impresses U.S. representative
• Police blotter: Joliet woman charged with prostitution
• $9K worth of cocaine seized in traffic stop
• Lawyer: Peterson a ‘hostage’ of prosecutors’ court appeals
• Kinzinger to host small-business roundtable
• Murder suspect accused of trying to put hit on prosecutor on case
• Channahon mayor faces income tax charges
• Lockport library to move into Gaylord building during revamp
• Morris horror writer gets anthology into Poe museum
• Police: Murder suspect sought hit on prosecutor
• St. Joe’s heart surgery center still thriving
• Historic vintage tractor drive given an award of excellence
• Clinic Hosts seminar on cancer law
• City seeks community comments on Collins Street
• Minooka grade schools mull offering preschool
• Joliet to add lights for emergency vehicles
• Damselfly and dragonfly program in Joliet
• Minooka grade schools mull offering preschool
• Joliet to add lights for emergency vehicles
• Cops seize cannabis, mushrooms
• Cops seize cannabis, mushrooms
• Lawmakers, local veteran leaders brainstorm for VA hospital
• Lawmakers, local veteran leaders brainstorm for VA hospital
• Joliet chamber to honor 2011 Athena
• Hultgren town meeting overflows with opinions
• Hultgren town meeting overflows with opinions
• State lawmakers send electric rate bill to Quinn
• State lawmakers send electric rate bill to Quinn
• Shots fired in fight at Crest Hill party
• Poll: Did the government overreact to Hurricane Irene?
• Damselfly and dragonfly program in Joliet
• Joliet chamber to honor 2011 Athena
• Police: Thieves steal $60K of toilet paper, plasticware
• Fall groundbreaking first step for Joliet transportation center
• Joliet sets budget meeting
• Will County Fair sparks old memories, creates new ones
• Mokena man charged with DUI in wreck that killed two seniors
• Pulse: Councilman O’ Dekirk raises unpopular questions during Joliet budget talks
• Rally set to form teams for Romeoville CROP Hunger Walk
• Popular Mechanics: JJC expands auto lab to accomodate more students
• 160 Illinois troops head to New York for relief efforts, 1,000 released
• Man winds up in pickle after burger brouhaha
• A rolling morale boost for troops
• A rolling morale boost for troops
• Auto dealer, philanthropist Jerry Gleason dies
• Auto dealer, philanthropist Jerry Gleason dies
• Will County Fair sparks old memories, creates new ones
• Will County Board Reviews Master Plan To Address Aging Facilities
• Plainfield crash on Route 126 injures six
• Pulse: Joliet councilman’s questions not popular
• Rally set to form teams for Romeoville CROP Hunger Walk
• Southwest-area notes: School moves, fish and tree sale and anniversary event
• Aid and Attendance event can help veterans increase income
• Grundy area police report arrests
• Coal City church seeks golfers for fundraising outing
• Channahon and Minooka  to mark Sept. 11 anniversary
• Minooka teen raises funds for Ronald McDonald House
• Food truck program aids needy families
• Morris Hospital schedules classes for kids, moms and more
• Morris doctor earns honor
• Local veterans say Joliet VA mega-clinic will be convenient
• Vets have high hopes for new clinic
• Business Briefs
• Joliet firefighters mourn one of their own
• Village official lauds Channahon’s past and its ‘positive’ growth
• Diocese willing to give church for senior homes
• USF, New Lenox to help jobless during ShareFest
• Area doctors and hospitals snub Medicaid managed care program
• Man sought in slaying shot by police in Lockport
• Police blotter: Bouncer shot outside Crest Hill bar
• Man winds up in pickle after burger brouhaha
• Will County asks Supreme Court to step into Drew Peterson case
• Holly Club hosts jolly party
• Soldier takes helm at Valley View middle school
• Man sought in slaying found in Lockport and shot by police
• Pickets expected at Kendall GOP picnic with controversial Arizona sheriff
• Number of young Hispanics in college surges
• Hurricane Irene threatens 65 million along Eastern Seaboard
• Shorewood keeps watch on ash borer threat
• Route 59 re-opened in Plainfield after gas leak
• Still no decision for Joliet cuts
• Wounded Warrior Run to begin in New Lenox
• Police blotter: Will County man faces charges of robbery, battery
• FBI arrests Shorewood man on child porn charges
• Construction work planned on Hoff Road
• Illinois Tollway OKs 87 percent toll increase
• Son’s donation saves dad’s life
• Illinois Tollway Board approves steep 87 percent toll increase
• Nurses allege labor law violations
• Braidwood Police Department earns accreditation
• Route 59 closed in Plainfield due to gas leak
• Troy schools award snow contract to Plainfield company
• Troy schools to hire more staff
• Pale ale from Limestone wins honors at festival
• Old-time baseball back in Morris
• Hospital staffers honored
• Joliet Job Corps graduates lauded for their success
• Minooka to complete unfinished subdivision street
• Homes suffer damage from unrelated blazes
• Silver Cross ER in Joliet to become veteran facility
• Troy simplifies discipline levels
• Developer: Ready to ‘save’ old Joliet church
• Program aims to educate  public about train safety
• Then & Now: Jefferson and Ottawa streets in Joliet
• RR repair requires Spencer Road closure in Joliet
• Local museum’s attendance up
• New Rialto board to seek donations
• Can a sports bar succeed where chophouse failed?
• Slammers owner sells interest in Schaumburg team
• Senior Services dinner set; JCA holding Spirit Raffle
• Weber Rd. bridge to be replaced
• Wounded New Lenox veteran speaks of struggles, and love for family
• Damaging storms possible as cold front moves in
• Shorewood trustee opposes vehicle purchases
• Quinn: 1,200 new jobs for rail work
• Academy plans fundraiser picnic
• Quinn signs law in effort to protect those living in group homes
• Trial begins for Bolingbrook man accused of killing infant son
• Woman convinces officials to put lights on Joliet street where son was killed in ’09
• Man shot in Joliet drive-by
• Hilltopper home opener to be televised
• Firefighter dies from cycle crash
• Michael Madigan attends John Boehner fund-raiser in Lemont
• Newest JCA principal brings fresh perspective
• USF student thrives after accident
• New Homer Glen  recycling center takes  unwanted electronics
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Bank CEO to village: Glad to be in Elwood
• Home sales rise in Will
• Elwood OKs fees  on cargo containers
• RTA sues Channahon, Kankakee over tax-avoidance efforts
• Fashion show benefits hospital auxiliary
• Earthquake shakes East Coast
• Storms prompt flood warning along DuPage River
• New drug for prostate cancer
• Feared insect pest can’t get through customs at O’Hare
• Actor from ‘A Christmas Story’ finds dead musician in Chicago hotel room
• Joliet mainstays brace for cuts
• Stars and strikes: Bowling fundraiser helps soldiers
• Joliet torture case inspires law
• Police blotter: Crash kills Morris man
• Joliet man facing murder charge accused of assaulting jail guard
• Board Reminds Drivers About Back-To-School Safety
• Poll: Should disability eligibility requirements be tighter?
• Bank manager charged with taking more than $100,000
• Joliet man jailed on murder charge now accused of assaulting jail guard
• Rabid bat in Homer Glen is fifth case in Will County
• Utility assistance available
• Interfaith discussion over Ramadan dinner
• From God’s house to grandma’s?
• Property tax due Sept. 1
• Bridge project on fast track
• Fundraiser, march set for Take Back the Night
• Obama: Situation in Libya still fluid, uncertain
• President Obama monitors Libya while on vacation
• Rabid bat in Homer Glen is fifth case in Will County
• Joliet city officials continue budget talks Thursday
• Southwest notes: Tomahawk Aquatic Center welcomed more than 25,000 swimmers
• Southwest police blotter: Arrests from Grundy County area
• Timbers of Shorewood hosting bands for free concerts
• Southwest calendar: Minooka Summerfest is Saturday
• Minooka second-grader earns kudos from national fire group
• Police blotter: Joliet man charged with failing to register as child sex offender
• Pulse: Joliet is no place for budget procrastination
• Work planned on Plainfield’s Lockport Street
• Joliet firefighter brain dead from I-80 accident
• Joliet fest schedule packed to replace canceled events
• ‘Freedom Writers’ ex-student challenges Fairmont teachers
• Trailblazing county board member leaving Will County after decades of service
• Will County nixes neighbors’ claim that history trumps bridge plan
• 473-mile ride bonds dad, son
• Two die in conservation area
• Superintendent starts with Joliet grade school tour
• Slain Joliet native won’t be forgotten
• Local business foils theft of copper coils
• Skunks ‘reek’ havoc on Joliet neighborhoods
• Shorewood forum to target emerald ash borer
• Slain Joliet native is fondly remembered
• Herald-News is now under new leadership
• Who is shooting Lockport ducks?
• Poll: Splash Station bond payments
• Retailer has staying power
• Joliet man drowns in Kankakee River
• Township supervisor, Spanish teacher newest candidates for open State Senate seats
• Man suing Frankfort motel, saying his room had bed bugs
• Hultgren changes date of Yorkville town hall
• 15 apply to be Kendall animal control warden
• Regional school chiefs sue to get paid by state
• Ex-inmate could not get enough of Joliet Correctional Center
• Poll: Should Joliet push Splash Station bond payments to parks?
• NIU unveils renovated, tech-savvy residence hall
• 2nd Seinfeld show added at Rialto
• Jackson Street bridge to close for week starting Monday
• Comparing Obama’s vacation time to other presidents
• Will County Board approves new election precincts
• Will County to spend $1 million on new mobile emergency command center
• Splash Station popular, but still not profitable
• Tollway plan lauded for job-creation potential
• A tough cell: Ex-inmate wants back in
• Fish spurs call to ‘re-reverse’ Chicago River
• Woman guilty of traffic charges that ultimately lead to son’s death
• Preventing foreclosure workshops to be offered
• CASA fundraiser offers Sunset in Paradise
• Morris residents to choose between ComEd, alternative
• And winner of Channahon's most beautiful baby conest is ...
• Will County Board approves new election precincts
• New Lenox School Board OKs tentative budget
• Ambulance fees to rise in Romeoville
• Romeoville slashes fees on new homes
• Channahon School Board OKs balanced budget
• Body of missing Wilmington man recovered in lake
• Morris City Council OKs 911 dispatcher agreement
• Liquor license proposal sparks debate in Wilmington
• Channahon schools get good funding news from state
• Group protests lack of coal-ash cleanup in Joliet
• Two-for-one  cops special?
• Armed man robs contractor, flees
• Stalker gets 17 years for Will County break-in
• Purse-theft victim has to fight to get bag back from prosecutors
• City: Skunk ‘epidemic’ creating a stink in Joliet
• Will Joliet seek wage cuts from unions to cut deficit?
• Sign gives Joliet arboretum a higher profile
• Then & Now: Joliet’s Chicago Street
• Summer Fest is Saturday at Lewis University
• 17 years for Frankfort Square standoff
• Poll: Have you encountered a skunk this year?
• Event urges youths to succeed
• Crest Hill honors Pony baseball team
• Bolingbrook school gets new leader
• Deportation policy expected to draw protests from angry immigrants
• Judge ponders charity’s right to adoption contract
• Obama visits Illinois fair as bus tour rolls on
• Will Co. clerk: Cutting precincts could save $200,000 per election
• Famed Palos Park sled hill now a workout mecca
• Drugs and guns seized during Joliet home raid
• Regular sessions resume at LTHS
• JOLIET REVIEWS BUDGET CUTS
• Will County clerk says reducing precincts could save taxpayers $200,000 per election
• Plainfield creates historic district on downtown streets
• Interim leader picked after JJC chief’s death
• Car show to be Aug. 26 at D’Arcy
• Suspects nabbed after their car crashes
• Police find, arrest suspect in two robberies
• Joliet center starts its Disability Law Series
• Will County releases assessment factors
• Stalker expected to be sentenced for Frankfort Square attack
• Will’s circuit clerk to seek fifth term
• Briefcase: European leaders want financial solutions
• Do you have a funny caption for this zombie picture?
• Joliet fines Azteca de Oro for alcohol violation
• Money permitting, Metra trains may get defibrillators
• Shorewood crowns pageant winners
• 126 steps not exactly a walk in the park
• New Crest Hill business license draws complaint
• Riding in remembrance of Sept. 11
• Joliet mall getting a Tilted Kilt Pub
• Joliet teen accused of sexually assaulting young relatives
• Candidate alleges ethics violation by state’s attorney
• Pies, hot dogs no match for Plainfield man
• Romeoville summer concert to be Thursday
• Seinfeld to make a stop at Rialto theater
• Metra trains may get defibrillators
• Illinois Tollway director says proposed toll increase could be trimmed
• JJC community lauds president in memorial service
• Obama criticizes GOP presidential field while kicking off bus tour
• NASA exhibit brings outer space to Joliet museum
• West Nile virus-infected mosquitoes found in Joliet
• Crest Hill couple opening dinner theater in Plainfield
• Poll: 9/11 anniversary
• Joliet police arrest man on burglary charges
• Will Co. Board members opt out of 2012 race
• Annual Bill Jacobs Jr. car show to be Aug. 20
• I-80 construction in Will County no picnic for commuters 
• New Hollywood project for Plainfield native
• Aurora doctor indicted on federal fraud charges
• Honor guard gives veterans a fitting farewell at Lincoln Cemetery
• Man admits killing Lockport Twp. teen, gets 25 years in prison
• JJC President Proulx dies at age 66 after battle with cancer
• Former Plainfield man gets prison time for drug ring
• Police blotter: Mokena man charged with DUI
• New Lenox man’s body found in Lake Michigan
• Plainfield library book sale set
• Poll: Cool change
• Wheatland facility vote still a hot issue
• Heritage Village finds new home in Lockport
• Man injured in Channahon hit-and-run
• Library helping GED seekers
• Shorewood crowns its most beautiful babies
• Sports club to hold annual cycling event
• Barcode 52 fined for liquor violation
• Heartland Bank OK’d to collect property tax
• Braidwood reviews city's emergency notification system
• More people saving by canceling cable, turning to the Internet
• Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi names final members to debt supercommittee
• Appellate court rules in Morris’ favor in landfill case
• Braidwood mulls improvements to emergency notification system
• Shorewood, developer agree on Towne Center work
• Cops: Joliet woman shot her boyfriend
• Murder case might end in plea deal
• Rescuers to resume search for New Lenox man feared drowned in Lake Michigan
• New Lenox man feared drowned in Lake Michigan
• Lockport tables annexing temple
• Learn about YMCA KidZone programs
• Then & Now: Chicago Avenue and Clinton Street in Joliet
• Channahon mulls new taxes to fill budget hole
• Mobile dental van serving Will County
• Whitewater rapids lures novices, vets
• Eagle Scout’s arboretum to be dedicated
• Deal pending in murder of Lockport Twp. teen girl?
• Gov. Quinn blasts legislative scholarship program
• First Will County West Nile presence confirmed for 2011
• New law will increase electronics recycling in Illinois
• Shorewood praises former Police Chief Puleo
• Plainfield takes cautious approach on village revenues
• I-55 interchange plans concern Plainfield Village Board
• Police blotter: Joliet man attacked in home over lawsuit?
• Can a Joliet resident solve a 1988 cold case homicide from Indiana?
• JJC president’s health rapidly deteriorating
• School secures OK to open
• Three teens charged with car theft
• Briefs: Blood drive Thursday in Joliet
• Food pantry benefits from Berkot’s altruism
• Fiesta to raise funds for Spanish center
• County rule change would allow pygmy goats and pigs
• Sing your way into the Rialto
• Joliet residents recycling more under new system
• Court case information is now on circuit clerk’s site
• Photo funnies: Do you have a funny caption for this artist’s photo?
• Treatment can help urinary incontinence
• Joliet area unemployment up; workers try to keep hope alive
• Illinois to seize abandoned cash after 1 year
• Police blotter: Crest Hill man charged with aggravated domestic battery
• Local unemployment up; workers try to keep hope alive
• Interchange construction to close I-55, frontage road
• Early Days
• Cops: Robber wielded knife
• Union School Board seeks to fill vacancy
• Lane pattern changes planned in I-80 work zone
• Joliet man faces sex charges
• Wilmington cops seize drugs
• New Illinois law to require chip scans for pets
• Will Co. State's Attorney James Glasgow could face competition
• Tavis Smiley stops in Joliet to meet with warehouse workers
• ComEd: Smart meters could save customers nearly $3 billion
• Putting poverty in the forefront
• Cops: Gun-toting gang member attempts escape
• Exploring the final frontier: politics
• Pulse
• Lockport choir forming for Sept. 11 ceremony
• Elwood man shared his gift of cooking
• Christian school to open in New Lenox
• Latino civil rights group questions state rules for special police patrols
• Kendall transit program booms
• Local residents sound off on the faltering economy
• Joliet financial adviser: ‘This is not a repeat of 2008’
• Republicans say Democrats’ plan tears apart the Southland
• Blotter: Southwest-area police report arrests
• Southwest community notes: Therapist helps athletes at fundraising race
• Southwest school notes: Reserved Morris football tickets to be sold
• Coal City church sets golf outing
• Southwest calendar: Channahon church sets thrift-shop date
• School notes: Morris High teacher retires after 43 years
• Council bringing arts to downtown Minooka
• Farewell Chief Hayes
• Lawsuit pushes ‘Fair Map’
• Drugs, vehicles and cash taken  in drug bust
• Kendall County transit system reaches 10,000th rider
• In second year, JCA camps cater to youth
• Friday was last day on the job for Joliet police Chief Hayes
• Labor dispute resolved, work to begin on Kendall roads
• Tuesday meeting to decide fate of Wheatland Twp. HQ plan
• Bank of Shorewood fails; Bloomington bank takes over
• Kendall transit system reaches 10,000th rider
• Sweep brings arrest at Wilmington nursing home
• Police: Joliet teen shot man after escaping detention center
• Man jailed day after ex-wife admits trying to kill him
• High bidders help abused children
• Today last day on the job for Joliet police Chief Hayes
• Challenging Ill. Dems’ congressional map, GOP offers own version
• Feds say Joliet violated housing laws with Evergreen Terrace plan 
• Thousands of Will County residents seek help for school kids
• Police: Bolingbrook necklace thieves stole from victims’ throats
• County exploring transit options
• Police blotter: Elderly man killed in farm accident
• Thousands seek help at fair for school kids
• Manhatan to host Cruise Night Aug. 15
• Will County tries to expand options for paratransit service
• Animal warden quits amid a dog disaster
• Romeoville woman gets 8-1/2 years for slashing husband’s throat
• Joliet police Chief Hayes to retire Friday
• Man dies in Stevenson crash
• Romeoville woman gets 8-1/2 years for slashing husband’s throat
• Feds sue Joliet over efforts against Evergreen Terrace
• Sisters run to help sick child, pets
• 36M pounds of turkey recalled in salmonella outbreak
• Crest Hill lauds cop for saving baby’s life
• We Care hosting ‘FundRacer’
• ‘New view’ in Valley View
• St. Francis names new symphony director
• Plano woman arrested after walking away from fiery crash
• Aurora man arrested after leading wrong-way chase
• Local prairie perfect classroom for New York students
• Early Days
• Silver Cross’ New Lenox hospital on track for February opening
• Joliet’s firefighters stop townhome blaze
• 20-year-old dies 2 weeks after being shot in vehicle
• Storms pack more than lightning
• Cross’ senior advisory group sets home-keeping seminar
• Joliet woman charged with lying to protect suspect in Lockport Twp. shooting
• Plainfield senior pleads innocent to shooting wife, stepdaughter
• Silver Cross’ New Lenox site set for February opening
• Lockport blaze blamed on lightning
• Plainfield River Days to raise funds for riverfront project
• KidzFest boasts free activities
• Hospital honors top volunteers
• Grundy preschool program to be expanded
• Quinn signes two measures at Lewis
• Wilmington City Council fails to reach agreement on layoffs
• Morris to get new downtown parking lot
• Crest Hill OKs road projects
• Channahon joins Dupage River study
• Lightning seen as cause of Bolingbrook house fire
• Lockport architect designs safe spots for children, teens
• Plainfield neighbors fight adding multifamily homes
• Kinzinger under fire for vote on debt deal
• Police blotter: Grundy sheriff in crash due to bee in SUV
• Donor lauds marrow registry
• High-tech SUVs to patrol Joliet intermodal
• St. Dennis School to hold registration
• Board Offers Voluntary Furlough, Severance Plans
• Democrat eyes 11th District bid
• President Obama signs debt limit bill after Senate passes it
• Bolingbrook man accused of sexual contact with teen
• Photo Funnies: Got a funny caption for these birds?
• Canoe capsizes; man missing
• Poll: Birth control
• Provena St. Joe gets new leader
• FBI: ‘Credible lead’ surfaces in D.B. Cooper case
• Turkey salmonella cases found in Will, DuPage
• Man missing after canoe capsizes
• Heat advisory issued, but cooler temps on the way
• Mokena SD 159 nixes fundraising festival
• Rod Blagojevich judge sets sentencing date; ex-governor plans to testify
• Blagojevich judge sets sentencing date; ex-governor plans to testify
• Teenager found dead in pool
• Joliet looks to fill budget gap
• Plainfield lecture to looks at rain garden benefits
• TV show didn’t kill dancer’s dream
• Manhattan lifts total ban on watering
• Lockport might ax stimulus
• Minooka opposes state fees
• Poll: Should Joliet outsource services?
• House passes debt bill with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in attendance
• Blagojevich judge sets sentencing date; ex-governor plans to testify
• Early Days
• Green grant funds: Joliet given $820K
• Samsung to open distribution center in Romeoville
• July was among hottest, wettest for Chicago area
• DuPage River kayak accident prompts reminder to steer clear of dams
• Southwest weekly notes: Channahon hosts educator in-service day
• Everyone loves big trucks
• Lockport’s night out against crime
• Steering clear of dam dangers
• Pulse: Team work is key to Route 59 success
• Call him an Eagle Scout
• Joliet woman made sure many pets and people felt loved
• Plainfield rejoices as long-time work on Route 59 ends
• Woman found dead at Frankfort suite
• Police Blotter: Joliet resident faces theft, obstructing justice charges
• Night Out on Tuesday in Plainfield
• Food and fun at Celtic fest
• Joliet officer promoted to division commander
• Minooka trustees: Road to be named for business
• Joliet museum to host NASA exhibit
• Bowling event to benefit vets
• Minooka school seek protection
• Braidwood names finance commissioner
• Meetings scheduled for area businesses
• New library director has a plan for future in Joliet
• Bolingbrook greenhouse to shut doors
• Wrong dog euthanized, so animal that bit 3 was adopted
• Police Blotter: Joliet man faces theft, obstructing justice charges
• Yorkville says fire sprinklers not needed in new homes
• Dog that bit three adopted, not euthanized in animal shelter mix-up
• Wrong dog killed, Kendall shakes up Animal Control
• Police: Nothing suspicious about woman’s death at Sybaris in Frankfort
• Former Will County exec Mikan sued over golf course expenses
• Bolingbrook man arrested in Glen Ellyn restaurant cocaine bust
• Rahm Emanual, other Illinois mayors send letter on debt debate
• Report: 1 in 4 Americans binge-drink
• Lamb’s Fold now housing women in community
• Food pantry helps many people in need to survive
• Quick news: Joliet railroad crossing to close for work
• Joliet Fire Wives group stands by their heroes
• Letters: Dairy may not make bones strong
• Openline; Congrats to JJC culinary students
• Gov. signs concussion law
• Police, fire health benefits case moves ahead
• Employment increases, but  still negative
• Minooka expands exchange program
• St. Joe’s future
• Lightning strike causes fire, $300,000 damage at Aurora park
• Friendship Garden grows food for Manhattan pantry
• Smartphone users overpaying
• Foundation promoting river preservation
• Weather Service: More than 68K lightning bolts during storm
• Library district gets new name, building
• Minooka school board nixes residency request
• Plainfield plans Route 59 event
• Cutting away history
• Cook leader: End some pot arrests
• Joliet Junior College culinary team wins national competition
• Joliet man charged with burglary
• Food, fun and music at Shorewood fest
• Shorewood street set for road work
• Body of 1957 Sycamore murder victim exhumed as accused killer is moved
• Shorewood police chief to retire
• Meeting to discuss Fairmont’s future
• Homer Glen, home builder may settle lawsuit
• Plainfield seeks to keep downtown history alive
• Slammers bring concert to Silver Cross Field
• Joliet firefighter stops ruse burglary
• Naperville, Beecher men charged with having child pornography
• Author visits students in Romeoville book club
• House GOP retools plan as Congress seeks debt fix
• Chicago couple arrested in Will Co. for passing bad checks
• Kayakers capsize on DuPage River in Shorewood
• Man dies after hit by vehicle in Morris
• Rt. 53 resurfacing to start Wednesday; will last 3 months
• Briefcase: Consumer confidence up
• Protestors at U.S. Rep. Kinzinger’s Joliet office want progress, fairness in Congress’ debt plan
• ‘Purse lady’ arrested, accused of selling counterfeit products
• Kayakers capsize on DuPage River
• Bridge inspections to bring I-55 lane closings
• Lane closures ahead for Rt. 53
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Duo charged with using bad checks
• Hispanic blood needed
• Joliet City Council ready to tackle $27 million deficit
• Court limits use of hearsay evidence in Drew Peterson case
• Chamber hears Naperville juror in Blagojevich trial
• Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich seeks new trial on fraud conviction
• New Lenox mayor answers questions on electricity supply plan
• Hundreds line up for Price-less Days in Morris
• Poll: Debt crisis standoff
• White House threatens to veto Boehner’s House plan
• Conservative revolt casts doubt on House GOP plan
• Silver Cross adds doctors
• Report: Smartphone users overpay $331
• Man in critical condition after motorcycle crash
• Grundy board’s GOP members nix dispatch plan
• No solace for Joliet family grieving mauled dog
• Lewis airport runway work on hold
• Rivers Casino impacting Joliet?
• Participants sought for Manhattan Founder’s Day Parade
• Quinn continues to defend budget without raises
• Board Announces County Cooling Centers for Heat Wave
• More charges for man accused of killing Lockport teen
• BABAS RETURNS TO DUST
• Man arrested in Tinley Park for sex trafficking
• Papayas suspected in salmonella outbreak
• Supplies run low at local blood banks
• Yorkville man charged after getting lost in Kendall corn field
• Race for Will County executive starting to take shape
• Grizzly tackled Denver teen as he ran down hill
• Judge in Kane will hear lawsuit against Groupon
• Yorkville residents complain about high weeds on vacant lots
• Shorewood duo shoots rain-swollen rapids along DuPage River
• Pulse: Chicago pols ‘at home’ in old Joliet prison?
• Man shot at while taking out trash
• Show brings together antique-engine fans for a humid weekend
• Joliet cancels budget meeting
• Pulse: Chicago pols ‘at home’ in local prison?
• State cuts essay exam to save cash, leaving students with headaches
• State cuts writing, creates headaches for students, administrators
• Duo shoots rain-swollen rapids
• Joliet house fire likely caused by lightning
• Deluge ‘a godsend’ for worried farmers
• Southwest notes: Channahon parks host Touch A Truck, family campout
• Southwest-area police departments report arrests
• Channahon-Minooka fitness group inclusive
• Homer Glen man enjoyed the ride
• IDOT seeking input on I-80
• Troy schools hire asst. principal
• Plainfield soldier gets  a warm welcome home
• Record rainfall; power outages
• ComEd says it’s a record-breaking summer
• Joliet City Council to talk budget
• Joliet native bounced from TV dance show
• Elwood announces hire of new public works director
• City hikes water rates
• Troy schools get honor
• Manhattan cuts fees for building permits
• Kendall, Grundy  roadwork stalled
• Boxing: Yet another Bennett a budding star in the ring
• Recovery rough for Plainfield teen injured in snow-blower accident
• Boxing: KO Zone gym provides a haven for local kids
• Police seek motive in Joliet Twp. shooting
• St. Joe’s named 11th best hospital
• Chicago Tribune fires 20 workers
• Joliet cops schedule fun for National Night Out
• County gets new funds for food, shelter
• Yorkville may find funds for River Road bridge without Kendall County loan help
• Kendall euthanizes dog that bit boy at shelter
• Police blotter: Woman rescued from Joliet crash
• Man hit by Joliet squad car awarded $2 million
• Joliet daycare providers finally getting money from state
• Vandalism threatens water supply in Will County town
• Homer Glen water change to be decided by governor
• Police Blotter: Joliet man allegedly stole car, fled cops
• Lockport to remember Sept. 11 terror attacks
• Will County again to offer workers voluntary furloughs, incentives to leave
• Vandalism threatens water supply
• State finally paying day care bills
• New Valley View leader to hold forums
• Joliet native voted off of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
• $2M awarded to man hit by squad
• Civil unions prove popular in first month
• LTHS sued over bleacher fall
• FATAL SHOOTING SHOCKS A TRANQUIL NEIGHBORHOOD
• Plainfield ponies up dough to have a say on I-55 interchanges
• Joliet gets $820K for sewer plan
• County to sell 306 properties for owed taxes
• Morris to back new 911 deal?
• Morris pool overhaul to fix 4M-gallon leak
• 2 schools get  new principals
• Will County house designated a landmark status
• Cool front on the way, but effect will be fleeting
• Area under air pollution alert
• Heat during blaze sends Joliet fireman to hospital
• Shorewood events seeking contestants
• Lockport hosts Relay for Life
• Brewer fans unite: Plainfield to host beer fest on riverfront
• As temperatures rise, residents raise their glass to seasonal beer
• Local volunteers aid Alabama after devastating twister
• There’s no place like home for Joliet Central Steelmen
• One dead, two wounded in Joliet Township shooting
• Concert Thursday night in Romeoville
• Minooka woman proves you can fight the taxman
• Catfish Days begins
• Trash pickup early in Joliet
• Bat with rabies found in Will County
• Local residents join ‘powerful force of workers’
• Plainfield man accused of blinding cat
• County ordinance change could bring pet goat home
• Homeowners confront crime
• Poll: Craft beer drinkers
• Plainfield man severely injured father’s cat
• Metra plans to install pollution filters on trains
• Over 65 and not worried about heat? You should be
• New Joliet health center uses holistic healing approach
• Joliet to consider lease tax
• Police blotter: Sparking wire causes Joliet power outage
• Group tours former Joliet lockup with eye on saving it
• Contentious Crest Hill meeting cuts $534K from city’s budget
• JJC chefs going for the gold
• Court might help settle dispute over KenCom funding
• Joliet to welcome Marines with parade
• JJC chefs aim for gold medal
• Romeoville High offering $25 sports physicals
• Forest district president to run for Will County executive
• New Lenox: Energy supplier can save residents $174 each year
• Contentious Crest Hill meeting slashes $534 from city budget
• Court might help settle KenCom case
• Critters spared harm in pet store fire
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• New Joliet heath center uses holistic healing approach
• Teens learn work ethic outside JCA classrooms
• Obama praises ‘Gang of Six’ plan on deficits, debt ceiling
• Arbitrator: Quinn must give pay raises to workers
• Police blotter: Siblings shoot up heroin in Bolingbrook lot
• Family mourns ‘bubbly’ Steger teen
• Heat wave hits Joliet: Surviving high temps
• Truckers won’t erase deficit
• Joliet library director’s exit paves way for a promotion
• Plainfield man charged with stalking employee of Romeoville gentleman’s club
• State can’t snub Catholic Charities
• Man rescued from creek fall
• Manhattan seeks participants for Founder’s Day Parade
• Alcohol cited when truck hits garage
• Police: Drive-through fight leads to high-speed chase in Shorewood
• Man rescued after fall into creek
• Poll: Does the heat affect your day?
• Joliet’s budget meeting looms, and it’s gonna hurt
• Illinois ramping up fight against child porn
• Slammers looks grand, but low attendance has team hoping to improve numbers
• Motorcycle driver injured in crash
• City’s budget meeting looms, and it’s gonna hurt
• Southwest Seniors
• SouthWest Police Blotter
• Southwest notes: Kids’ camp is like ‘CSI: Grundy County’
• Antique tractor show is fun for the whole family
• Sen. aims to get historic prison back on map
• Slammers look grand
• Woman opened home and heart to children
• Drug house to court house: Woman on right path
• A worldly way to earn school credits
• Crest Hill, New Lenox name energy partner
• Plainfield movie series resumes Friday
• Board’s decision places Grundy 911 plan in doubt
• Daycare operators struggle while state funding lags
• New signs point out  Lockport attractions
• Fashion  show set  this week
• Shorewood gynecologist  is charged in drug fraud
• County police nab coke stash
• Joliet libraries have Nooks available for patrons to check out
• Minooka pair loses 80 pounds
• Reception planned for new Joliet grade superintendent
• Paperbacks to e-Books
• Will landmark re-erected
• Exchange Club marks 100 years
• Welcome home soldier
• Joliet school to honor reverend
• Lockport resident  questions budget
• Celebrating  of summer
• Rialto planning online forum to benefit theater
• A taste of China at Plainfield North
• Will Nicor merger mean job cuts?
• Grundy board OKs pay cut
• Cruisin’ in Joliet
• Reading program  is for the bats
• Silver Cross adds 11 new physicians
• Police Blotter: Woman charged in animal cruelty
• Out of court settlement possible in lawsuit against adult fim star
• Driver’s ed may be pricier
• Barn destroyed by fire
• Man shot in hand at Joliet gas station
• Governor to visit  factories in Israel
• Blagojevich in hot water over unfiled paperwork
• Revelry for reopening of Route 59
• Official: Plainfield schools can hide survey responses
• Peterson threatens suit over movie based on reporter’s book
• Fancy footwork saves Jolietan on Fox show
• Prosecutors: Blagojevich not fulfilling bond terms
• Gov. Quinn to visit  factories in Israel
• Plainfield native earns Emmy nod
• Joliet Diocese installs new bishop
• Shorewood gets emergency backup
• Report says raise toll to pay for O’Hare west access road
• Friend charged with kidnapping Joliet teen’s infant
• Five arrested in Will County drug busts
• Lockport’s main thoroughfare reopens after storm
• Grant to fund ‘inland port’ study
• Will County officials considering how upgrade sheriff’s facilities
• Elwood man airlifted from Will County crash
• Pedestrian dies after being hit by two cars in Joliet
• Shorewood volunteers join village committees
• Daniel Ruettiger, father of 14 including ‘Rudy’
• Ill. won’t cut contracts with religious agencies
• Police seek information  on Frankfort ruse-burglary
• Harry Potter cast a spell over generation
• Potter fans all grown up, still digging the boy wizard with the round glasses
• Football patriarch dies at 89
• Recouping from the storm
• Romeoville-based Community Service Council gets grant
• Joliet libraries host free Harry Potter parties
• Prochaska appointed to  Yorkville plan commission
• Blago in-law in Mell feud pleads guilty
• Are you living in harmony with nature? Tell Homer Glen
• Man accused in shootings says wife abused him
• Joliet teachers learn about green energy at Lewis
• Preserve caretaker to get $219K house
• Public voices its opinions on new Wheatland facility
• Time for a new career
• Bolingbrook man gets 10 years in prison for sexual abuse
• Plainfield Fest will bring fun and traffic
• Demand prompts Mokena to start medication recycling
• Poll: Plan on seeing the last Harry Potter film?
• Court: Catholic Charities can continue its services, for now
• Police Blotter: State police charged Bolingbrook pair with battery
• Man allegedly threatened a cop
• Thousands still without power in Joliet area
• Are D’Arcy Motors, mall restaurant sign of better times?
• Joliet to pick up storm debris
• Diocese to install new bishop
• State rep. schedules town hall meetings
• 75-year-old Plainfield man charged with shooting family
• Strange claims in case of man accused of threatening Will County state’s attorney
• Record need at pantry; more donations sought
• Board mum on Morris school turnover
• Romeoville loosens its liquor control law
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Poll: Do you attend a Joliet Diocese church?
• Catholic Charities in danger of losing state contracts
• Finally! Route 59 work nearly done
• Braidwood’s history on display for fest
• Plainfield storefront hit by car, snarling traffic
• Gang attack kills parolee, injures man
• Powerful thunderstorms and winds wreak havoc in area
• Anti-airport group meets Quinn in Tinley Park
• Martial arts students and teachers mourn teen caught in gang gunfire
• Braidwood’s history to be displayed
• Channahon staff to install tree walk path
• Food distribution Wednesday in Mazon
• Powerful thunderstorms wreak havoc in the area
• Sisters reportedly shot gun in air as man fled from them
• Joliet’s own SummerFest
• Court upholds Illinois construction bill funded by video poker
• Anti-airport group meets Quinn in Tinley Park
• Warrant issued for Lockport man accused of molesting 6-year-old girl
• Gang violence leaves two men shot in Joliet
• Grundy County traffic enforcement nets 57 arrests
• STUDENTS HELP FIGHT  DISEASE
• Emergency care center ready to break ground
• Men die in separate motorcycle crashes
• New plan is slated for  downtown development
• Stinky find in local gardens
• Joliet police probe fatal shooting
• Joliet meeting to address threats to Social Security
• JTHS, Valley View districts have new superintendents
• Lockport mayor signs budget
• City council majority defends choices
• Business Briefs: Trampoline center coming to Naperville
• Braidwood celebrating 30 years of Summerfest
• Roads scheduled for construction
• Furloughs may be offered to Will County employees
• Former first lady Betty Ford dies
• Police blotter: Plainfield victim chased alleged thieves
• Regional ed offices to operate despite cut
• Future is uncertain for Will County office of education
• Mosquitoes with West Nile found in Lemont
• Facility still dominates township agenda
• Warren-Sharpe center marks 20 years of aid in Joliet neighborhood
• Crest Hill nixes lingerie football
• Future is uncertain for county office of education
• Police blotter: Teen charged with spray-painting Joliet businesses
• Sex abuse charge for Beecher man
• All-electric car to be on display in Plainfield
• Man who stole rings from deceased cancer patient gets two years in prison
• IDOT parking lot plan rankles Yorkville
• Mokena planning lights on Route 30
• Daybreak Center receives prescription discount cards
• Frankfort hosting free bluegrass fest
• Catholic Charities needs cash for cribs
• Foundation awards grants for projects at 5 Joliet schools
• Police: Copper thieves busted at former Joliet Arsenal
• Prairie Parkway still possible, but project is a long way off
• Volunteers save Thorn Creek nature center
• Fairy ring grows in Joliet yard
• Police blotter: New Lenox teens charged with ATV thefts
• Joliet family’s home to be part of new cable drama ‘Boss’
• Man charged with murder of Lockport Township boy
• Region’s Habitat for Humanity groups combining their efforts
• Volunteers save local nature center
• Yorkville cop pleads innocent to drug charges
• Probation for Joliet man with stash of young-child porn
• Coach denies sex abuse, porn charges
• The big mushrooms that sprouted in a circle in Irma Kump’s Joliet lawn might make you think of Alice’s Wonderland adventures. But the geometric pattern isn’t new to the fungus. Dozens of types of mushrooms can grow in circles
• Joliet grade schools hire 2 principals
• Docs join Silver Cross
• Kendall to revamp precincts
• Former Crest Hill man, son help families find closure
• The honor guard: Memorial Squad gives veterans a proper sendoff
• New Lenox man dies in motorcycle crash
• Man in child porn case sent to Will Co. jail
• Joliet teen gets 8 years in shooting
• Park to keep Silver Cross name
• Little Miss Black Joliet contestants sought
• Local man dies after crash
• Lewis students land jobs amid shortage of aviation workers
• Dog park permits available
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Provena, Resurrection health care systems OK merger
• Shorewood OKs bid to fix stream erosion
• Pyrotechnic team sets off colorful show in Channahon
• No cause yet for vacant Joliet home fire
• Motorcyclist killed in single-vehIcle crash on I-80
• Finding floating fun at cardboard regatta in Bolingbrook
• Poll: Did you buy fireworks this year?
• Kendall considers changes in election precincts
• Early reaction from aldermen: No garbage stickers for Yorkville
• Unknown cause for vacant home fire
• New Lenox Food Pantry needs help
• Lighting up the sky
• Communicators learn how to manage public in emergency
• Summer fun
• Pulse: The 411 on push to consolidate Will County’s 911
• Autobahn teacher trains police with racing know-how
• Police blotter: Woman charged after pitbulls die in hot car in Joliet
• Joliet parks plan bats and beer event
• Foundation gives $27K to New Lenox fire district
• Southwest calendar listing
• Grundy County Health Department offering free physicals
• Southwest Community Notes: Minooka Garden Walk is Sunday
• Morris Hospital groups award 8 scholarships
• Polka band to play free show at the Timbers of Shorewood
• Channahon school leaders get raises
• Plainfield School District to offer online fee payment
• Return meaning to Independence Day
• Will County retail sales spike
• Will mayor veto Lockport budget?
• Pulse
• Joliet church plans reopening event one year after fire
• Fun at the Grundy Fair
• Troy crash injures 3
• resounding faith
• Wyllie named Frankfort parade grand marshal
• Fun  at the  Fair
• Business boom in Lockport
• Little Learners on track for this year
• Shorewood hopes for park grant
• USF health center gets $2,500 from Jewel
• Menu makeover at Jameson’s
• Yorkville holds off on old jail parking
• Bolingbrook school principal looks to increase students’ nutrition scores
• Bolingbrook man sentenced to 12 years in student’s fatal stabbing
• Poll: Heading to the fireworks?
• Three injured in Troy Township crash
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• Gov. Quinn’s budget hits Medicaid, school transportation funding
• Will County officials look to Plan B for 911 command center
• Scientists favor dividing Great Lakes, Mississippi
• Group aids family of S. Wilmington baby with kidney disease
• Joliet native advances on “So You Think You Can Dance’
• Plan B for 911 dispatch center relocation?
• Group to raise funds July 9 for local baby with kidney disease
• Wilmington cops: Man brandished a fake gun
• See the stars come out in Homer Township
• Statement From Chairman Jim Moustis On Gov. Quinn Signing Congressional Map
• Joliet native competing on “So You Think You Can Dance’
• Woman sues Will County nursing home over mother’s death
• Nothing but blue skies for educator’s send-off
• Yorkville flip: Council backs bike paths for Route 47 plan
• Homer Glen talking trash about storage
• Owner wants land to be in New Lenox
• Farmers market in the works
• Summer brings dangerous temperatures
• Monee man remains jailed on charges of molesting 6-year-old girl
• 2 teens charged in Mokena graffiti spree
• Ill. likely to see fierce battle over gun control
• Morris downtown festival to feature historic home tour
• Son of Joliet couple is deployed to Iraq
• Monee man charged with molesting little girl
• Morris revels  in Liberty Days
• Volunteers install fish habitats in Braidwood Lake
• Deputies honored for speed enforcement
• Police Blotter: Mokena teens allegedly confess to graffiti spree
• Police: Mokena teens confess to graffiti spree
• If the cop asks,‘Where’s the fire?’ …
• Man gets 90 years for sex assault; prosecutor says, ‘He earned it’
• Plainfield schools create fee to reduce sporting-even crowds
• Joliet sanctions: Bellagio’s hours cut
• Police: Woman drove into crowd because of fight with sister
• Bail set at $5M in New Lenox Township murder
• Temperature could hit 100 on Friday
• Joliet-area fireworks
• Contractor woes to cost Kendall
• Plainfield considers bidding on cheaper electricity
• Police say driver who killed teacher was texting and on heroin
• Summit Hill names interim leader
• Shorewood tables talk of fee-based fire inspections
• Poll: Illegal fireworks
• Lockport standoff with SWAT teams ends in surrender
• Joliet Park District schedules Beer, Brats, Bats and Bags
• Tinley Park juror: Blago ‘really cheated the people of Illinois’
• Will County police: Murderer brought friends to burglarize New Lenox Twp. home
• Braidwood’s Mayor Pressley dies
• Joliet firefighter hurt in fall while battling blaze
• Cops arrest local crash victim accused of his stabbing wife
• Will County may force girl to give up miniature goat
• Reinventing gifted programs
• Call for Will County 911 board to formally scrap command center plan
• Downtown Joliet post office to stay open
• Juror: Rod Blagojevich proved he was guilty
• Grundy administrator slot may stay vacant
• Poll: Your plans for the Fourth
• Sign a big deal for Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Chicago-area home prices set another recession low
• Bolingbrook man jailed on attempted murder charge
• Garbage truck knocks out electricity in Joliet
• Yorkville to discuss new trail options
• Poll: Did you go to Taste of Joliet?
• Yorkville ready to begin talking trash
• Vaughn had article on staging crime scenes, fired murder weapon in Plainfield
• Romeoville plane crash victim identified
• Volunteers sought for Frankfort Fall Festival
• Shorewood auto shop gutted when gas tank ignites
• Home-schooler’s mom unhappy with Lincoln-Way board
• Mokena mom makes sure soldier son gets big welcome home
• Blago just the latest among accused Illinois chief execs
• New magazine out for Joliet attractions
• Deadline extended for Shorewood baby contest
• 2 injured in Romeoville plane crash
• Rockdale couple the first in line for civil union license
• Man accused of injuring man with sword
• Dairy man Norb Weber of Joliet was family’s ‘life force’
• Sweet tastes of Joliet
• Scam artists targeting elderly?
• Speakers Bureau to address crime prevention
• Senior Health Fair to be Wednesday in Morris
• Southwest-area clubs schedule meetings
• Southwest health: Groups, classes for new moms and more
• Shorewood, Coal City libraries schedule activities
• Minooka settles with energy company
• Lockport budget battles rage on
• 2 injured in Romeoville plane crash
• Dairy man was his family’s ‘life force’
• Southwest Health Notes
• Southwest notes: Midewin sets tour of Joliet Arsenal buildings
• SouthWest police blotter roundup
• Downtown Morris is launching Liberty Days
• Deadline soon for Channahon senior luncheon
• Rotary’s Four-Way Test a good life tool
• Mayor lays off Yorkville’s engineering staff
• Did Tinley Park business treat customers unfairly?
• Website to help renew Will
• Valley View enrollment dept. extending its summer hours
• Pulse
• Plainfield school board to vote on fee to attend sporting events
• Joliet firefighters investigate kitchen fire
• Teachers learn how to give students the reigns in AP course at Plainfield East
• A gem of a park opens in Lockport
• Gunshots in Joliet
• A walk against cancer
• A GEM OF A PARK OPENS
• PLAINFIELD STUDENTS MAY HAVE TO PAY
• Yorkville mayor: Bridge closure may last a while
• Troy district expands summer school program
• Roundhouse opens again
• Grundy Co. administrator takes job with Minooka
• Jump start your tastebuds at Taste of Joliet
• Quinn approves controversial map for redrawn congressional districts
• Police Blotter: Joliet man charged with vehicle theft
• GOP vows to fight congressional remap
• Unsealing of Christopher Vaughn murder case file sheds little new light
• Ex-media mogul Conrad Black ordered back to prison; wife faints
• Meat Loaf to play Joliet on Sept. 1
• Romeoville goes forward with veteran’s memorial
• Another Bolingbrook bat tests positive for rabies
• Yorkville starts another round with IDOT
• Plainfield wants residents opinions on downtown traffic change
• New law means everyone in vehicle buckles up
• Local Little League coach collapses on field, dies
• New retail businesses and more create excitement in Joliet
• Questions arise over costs of new Kendall County court
• Joliet man convicted of trying to abduct 11-year-old boy
• HAJ accepting wait-list applications
• Taste of Joliet kicks off Friday at Memorial Stadium
• Police blotter: Plainfield gas leak fixed, streets re-opened
• Gypsy moth treatment planned in area
• Safety Board report confirms pilot’s version of B-17 accident
• Plainfield’s John Argoudelis seeks re-election to Will Co. board
• New stores and more create excitement in Joliet
• Road contractor’s problems with state costly for Kendall
• Lockport Township softball complex opens Saturday
• Gambling bill not going to governor yet
• Crete teen makes bail on child porn charges
• Kane, Kendall, DeKalb join forces in elder abuse unit
• Meetings hash out plans for Will County intermodel districct
• Supreme Court: Generic drug makers not liable for warnings
• Crowds flock to Plano hoping to be cast in Superman’s shadow
• St. Charles, Kendall police issue warning about door-to-door scam artists
• Yorkville mayor lays off city’s engineering staff
• Plainfield support staff union tentatively agree to new deal
• Retiring Troy Shorewood principal lauded
• Police: Dogs locked in car on warm day
• Free movie Friday night in Plainfield
• Police: Joliet teens shot at rival gang
• Joliet dog one of few accelerant-sniffing canines in U.S.
• Crest Hill aims for lower electric bills
• Man gets 55 years for brutal Peotone Township murder
• 27 ‘starved’ dogs lead to animal cruelty case
• Video part of murder evidence
• New Lenox to offer electricity choices
• Meeting hashes out plan for an intermodal district
• Frankfort Twp. buys condos to turn into senior housing
• 9 doctors join staff at Silver Cross Hospital
• Kendall cuts costs with LED lights
• New Lenox library adds hours
• Cutting bike trails jeopardizes Route 47 funding
• Poll: Out in the storm?
• Joliet Junior College staff moves into $42 million Campus Center
• Public previews Illiana
• Crete-Monee fires coach charged with sex abuse
• Storm knocks down power lines in Joliet area 
• Joliet Council backs TIF for Cass corridor
• Shooters’ bullets hit Joliet houses
• Rock Run Rookery in Joliet enjoys popular opening week
• Storms stop trains, leave thousands without power in Chicago area
• Police: Bolingbrook man linked to four burglaries
• New GED testing site in Romeoville
• Lockport to hold public hearing on budget Wednesday
• Poll: Summer camp
• Help for Troy families? No hike to lunch prices
• Disabled residents help nab scofflaws
• Walk for life and help fight cancer
• Bolingbrook looks to lure engineering firm
• Braidwood passes measures to prompt new development
• New obstacle for 911 consolidation
• New Lenox relay to paint town purple
• Channahon OKs severance pact with outgoing administrator
• Will County campground dedicated to Naperville teen Kyle Zuleg
• Conditions ripe for dangerous thunderstorms
• Obama to move U.S. a step closer to ending the war in Afghanistan
• Joliet OKs electronic ads, but promises to meet with neighbors
• Foothold for sign opponents
• Police blotter: No injuries in shootings in Joliet, Bolingbrook
• Lockport Township Park District to cut ribbon on Crest Hill softball complex
• $1 million Powerball ticket sold in Homer Glen
• Slammers add mascot
• Lincoln-Way North teacher tries out NASA’s classroom in the clouds
• Local campground dedicated to teen
• Lincoln-Way mourns death of West’s band director
• Possible 11th District candidate Atkinson exits, supports Foster
• Naperville’s Centennial Beach hosts special needs swim
• Art brightening view at empty Romeoville shops
• Blagojevich jurors end 6th day of deliberations
• Third village signs on to I-55 interchange study
• Poll: Crosstown Classic
• Valley View board approves future superintendent’s job appointments
• Report suggests ways to avoid repeat of Blizzard of 2011 fiasco
• Shots fired near party, man hit in hand
• GED test dates announced
• Pulse
• New Lenox electric bills figure to be  lowered
• Southwest-area police blotter
• Groups aim to save post office
• Lockport to hire firm to do new water study
• Canal Days honors I&M roots
• Council bringing art fair to Central Park
• Morris grade school chief accused of ‘bullying’
• Kohl’s finally set to open in 2012
• Southwest notes
• Southwest Library Listing
• Southwest Support Groups
• ‘One Leg Greg’ of Joliet hopes to reach Paralympics
• Lockport board renews ex-fire chief’s contract  
• Joliet zoning board OKs electronic signs
• Motorcyclist dies after I-80 crash
• Fourth of July bike ride planned
• Book lovers reuse, recycle at Will County event
• New Lenox schools to adopt new language program
• New Lenox mayor says community headed in ‘right direction’
• Rialto brainstorming points to artsy, indie shows
• United Airlines lines moving again after glitch delays flights
• Police blotter: Alleged salesman kissed 12-year-old girl
• Old Canal Days parade thrills Lockport
• Yorkville library seeks to use developer donations for books
• Man, 73, dies in Joliet crash
• 3 charged in Nowell Park burglary
• Poll: Visiting your dad on Father’s Day?
• Man injured in ninja-style attack
• Foster donates money from ex-Rep Weiner to food pantry
• Former Joliet fire chief to get out of prison
• Man gets 55 years for slaying outside Joliet grocery store
• Arrest warrant issued for former Lincoln-Way employee
• Homer Glen soldier’s death ‘just hits home’
• Joliet shuts down bar at Bellagio’s Pizzeria for a week
• Police blotter: Chicago man faces Will County drug charges
• Timbers to host Seniors’ Senior Prom
• Will County Board Passes Bipartisan, Consensus Reapportionment Plan
• Board Reviews Consensus Reapportionment Plan
• Plans announced for Celtic Festival in Joliet
• JTHS reveals its board candidates
• Birds in Sandwich, LaSalle test positive for West Nile
• Hootenanny set for Saturday to open preserve in New Lenox
• City closes Bellagio’s bar for a week
• Will County hikes cost of civil union licenses from $4 to $28
• Will County Board votes to shrink size of panel, freeze its salaries
• Joliet attorney ready to take on Glasgow in Will Co. state’s attorney race
• Joliet delays annexation hearing so neighbors can get the dirt
• Anthony Weiner announces his resignation
• Illinois jobless rate rises to 8.9 percent in May
• American lifespans sank in hundreds of counties
• Poll: Is Rob Lowe right for Drew?
• Autopsy: Man found in ransacked Will Co. home was beaten
• Joliet gets $200,000 grant for Fire Department
• Wilco team building on knowledge
• Joliet police and firefighters help woman who fell in river
• Joliet man arraigned on child porn charges
• Oh, No You Didn’t: Woman takes taxi driver for a ride
• Plainfield park concert Thursday night
• No bike trails could jeopardize funding for Yorkville’s Route 47 widening project
• Final pieces of B-17 retrieved from cornfield
• United Way campaign a success
• Yorkville seeking solutions to closed bridge
• Will County Board members face tough choices
• Plainfield Moose dedicate new flag pole
• To fight vandalism spree, Mokena cops patrol more
• Joliet to cut down ash trees
• Eaglets land in rehab center
• Channahon preparing for massive race event
• Chaney-Monge again on hunt for new school chief
• Patrons up in arms over plan to move JJC’s fitness center
• Rob Lowe to play Drew Peterson in movie
• JJC to build $50M building
• Bolingbrook home invader sought
• Joliet man on trial again on sex assault charges
• Help honor fallen Homer Glen soldier
• Services set for Homer Glen soldier
• Joliet considering a tax district to boost redevelopment
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Minooka village administrator resigns
• Wilco offers EMT class for adults
• Manhattan burns American flags to ‘retire them with honor’
• Discounts or no discounts, shoppers riled by poor service
• Summit Hill board gives school nurses health care, benefits
• Wholesale prices rise at slowest pace in 10 months
• Drug drop-off sites created
• 74-year-old drowns in reservoir
• Quinn signs bill that lengthens school day
• Fed bankruptcy court may lose Will County courtroom space
• Crest Hill soccer coach charged with sex abuse held on $750K bail
• Glenwood work to start Wednesday in Joliet
• Plainfield woman escapes after car plunges into river
• Benefit set for paralyzed man displaced by Joliet home fire
• Metra vows only minor delays for evening rush after morning cancellations
• Report: CenterPoint plans second Joliet intermodal
• Will County board could lose member under new map
• Proposed digital signs could restore Old Glory in Joliet
• Teens charged with burglarizing acquaintance’s home
• Herald-News garners awards
• Poll: Do you know the flag code?
• Joliet man pleads guilty to possessing child pornography
• Man drowns at popular Will County boating spot
• Southwest library programs
• Neglected dogs found at vacant home
• Crimestoppers seeking help
• Bar owner faces charges; claims nothing happened
• Work resumes on new building in Joliet Grade School District
• Homer Glen man a Joplin tornado survivor
• Mental health group moves to Joliet site
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• Southwest Blotter: Grundy, Channahon, Minooka and Morris police report arrests
• Man combines loves to feed hungry children
• Lockport Police Dept.  golf outing on June 24
• Parade to honor 175 years of I&M Canal
• Health dept. testing birds for West Nile
• Briefs: Fashion Show at Al’s Steakhouse
• Joliet’s ESL/daycare program falls victim to federal cuts
• St. Mary Nativity freezes tuition
• KenCom hopes Kendall County cities will buy into dispatch proposal
• More cases of ash borer confirmed
• Rialto seeks public input to help build new variety of offerings
• Semi-tractor collides with car
• We Care seeks volunteers
• Stormwater topples old walnut tree in Elwood
• Rialto slates big names
• Wilmington shop owners oppose a new Pizza Hut
• Historic Joliet church could be razed
• Postal Service: Customers will decide post office fate
• Torch run cops bear heat
• Joliet caregiver charged with stealing from elderly Frankfort man
• USF hosts free veterans workshops
• Rock Run Rookery opens Wednesday
• Union rep disapproves of schools’ contractor
• Poll: NBA finals
• Two hurt when semi and car collide in Joliet
• Wilmington Pizza Hut is controversial
• Judge awards Morris $17.4 million in Community Landfill suit
• Homer Glen soldier killed in Iraq attack
• Joliet churches on crusade to fight hunger, other citywide issues
• Source: Will County resident likely knew her murderer
• Plainfield race Saturday to bring street closings
• Flood warning extended as rains fill streets, creeks spill over
• Priest with gambling addiction pleads guilty to stealing $400K from church
• U.S. Postal Service wants to close downtown Joliet post office
• Joliet Diocese priest with gambling addiction admits to stealing $400K
• Crete-Monee coach off to family cottage despite child sex-abuse charges
• Will County Board could have new district map next week
• 5-year-old shot in head with BB in Lockport Township
• Hit by car in Joliet, 12-year-old has ‘life-threatening head injuries’
• Morris backs dispatch plan
• Citywide crusade provides food for the soul
• Plainfield officer honored as best
• Joliet Grade School Board picks two ‘new’ members
• Home rules seminar set in Joliet
• Poll: Storm damage?
• Wilmington likely to object to storage plan
• Teacher sex crimes alleged
• Waterpark promising better Wave
• Police blotter: 2000 Jetta stolen in Joliet
• Police: SUV struck during Joliet street race
• Oh, No You Didn’t: Bomb threat caller allegedly ‘enjoys’ seeing police
• Plainfield schedules June 16 concert in the park
• Storms to bring 30-degree drop, damaging wind gusts tonight
• Joliet backs street trash pickup
• $250K Mega Millions ticket sold in Crete
• Bolingbrook man allegedly threatened to kill cop, rape his family
• Police: Car hits SUV during Joliet street race
• Sneaky semi shortcut
• Joliet boards, committees take shape
• Joliet woman found guilty of murder in Channahon home invasion case
• Kendall adopts similar map
• Braidwood woman pleads guilty to lying about rape, kidnapping
• Summit Hill to improve schools
• Braidwood nuke station declares unusual event
• As temperatures rise, we find ways to beat the heat
• Trial tape: Rahm Emanuel asked Rod Blagojevich to appoint Claypool
• Biggert program aims to give local vets info on medical care, benefits
• Joliet cop spots suspects at robbery scene
• Schultz named to board
• Old issues back on city plate
• Joliet shooting suspect arrested
• Joliet diocese closes St. Patrick school due to low enrollment
• Romeoville: State didn’t slash share of income taxes
• Joliet police to get 30 more stun guns
• Will County considers $450 million in building projects
• Defendant’s mom: Three Channahon murders suspects are ‘good kids’
• Police: Joliet woman left injured senior mom on stairs for 32 hours
• Plainfield library hosts organic food event
• Today hottest since 2006, Romeoville weather service confirms
• Catholic Charities sues state over adoption and foster care practices
• Frankfort Chevy dealer gets OK for expansion
• Heat, humidity create dangerous conditions
• Plainfield man angry with assailant’s sentencing
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Truck crash snarls I-80 traffic for second time in three days
• Outlet mall proposed for New Lenox
• Joliet students wrap school with chain of love
• Joliet votes to stop setting taxi rates
• Bolingbrook teen accused of stealing $2K from food pantry
• Strike stops construction at Joliet school, new Silver Cross Hospital
• Plainfield’s 127th Street rail crossing to close
• Jailed in Joliet, Drew Peterson seeks freedom during appeal process
• Kelsey Grammer’s new show ‘The Boss’ comes to downtown Joliet
• More ash borers found in Yorkville
• Defendant testifies about fatal Channahon home invasion
• Joliet warehouse’s workers file class-action lawsuit
• Reality TV couple appears in Joliet for book signing
• Relay of Life for Joliet raises funds to fight cancer
• Poll: Will you watch the summer blockbusters?
• Two melanoma drugs prolong survival for some cancer patients
• Joliet’s Angela Hendrix had green thumb, great heart
• Joliet Police bagpipe corps performs with school band
• Reality TV stars appear in Joliet for book signing
• Pork spill snarls I-80
• Meeting for nuclear lab workers
• Summer movie series to kick off in Plainfield
• Woman had green thumb, great heart
• We Care sets recipe contest
• Pulse
• Old Canal Days returns with food, fun and music
• Braidwood to host massive garage sale weekend
• Grundy County police agencies report arrests
• Romeoville cracks down on snow removal with fine
• Will Co. circuit clerk offers new ways to file
• Storms sweep through area, leave damage in their wake
• Joliet police: Love triangle led to murder
• Veto issues loom on Lockport council
• I-80 closed after truck full of frozen pork splits
• Channahon-area wildlife fun to watch
• Channahon police take stand at trial
• Master Gardeners to hold garden walk in Joliet
• Is Joliet dependent on gambling?
• New Lenox to dedicate Scout cabin, build skate park
• Plainfield Mom, daughter survive tornadoes years apart
• Fireworks fund $12k short; radiothon seeks donations
• Lockport plans summer full of fun
• Poll: Should Gov. Quinn approve more gambling?
• New Will County Board map could give more voices to minorities
• Joliet Catholic Charities puts brakes on adoptions as civil unions begin
• Argonne breaks ground for new energy lab
• Morris man injured in Channahon accident
• Dozen injured on Aurora-Naperville Metra train crash
• Krispy Kreme giving away doughnuts for national day
• Woman sues Dunkin’ Donuts over sugar in coffee
• Three hurt in Lockport collision
• Arrested Yorkville police officer gets demoted 
• Teen testifies in Channahon murder trial 
• ‘Rewarding career’ at an end for Lockport Township's Batusich
• Will County sheriff's police stop TV thief 
• Disability picnic Saturday at Joliet’s Bicentennial Park
• ‘Rewarding career’ at an end for Lockport public servant
• Distracted driving a big summer threat on local roads
• Inspection closes popular bridge
• Arrested Yorkville police officer get demoted 
• Will County intermodal authority plan on hold 
• Temporary leader for Summit Hill School district after unexpected retirement
• Enter dream raffle at Berkot’s
• Bill Jacobs dealerships honor local veterans
• Three hurt in Lockport crash
• Poll: Civil unions
• RTA rep from Will County named to high-speed rail study group
• State orders closing of River Road Bridge in Yorkville
• A spellbinding  performance
• Kendall couples enjoy their civil union rights
• Former circuit clerk dies
• Shooting victim tells story of her horrific night
• Rod Blagojevich explains notorious ‘effin’ golden’ remark
• Man shot to death in Joliet
• Man convicted of hitting Will County correctional officer
• Joliet’s Nina Montello vying for semifinals of National Spelling Bee
• Long wait over for couples seeking civil unions in Will County
• Former county clerk dies
• Signs Gov. Quinn may veto gambling bill
• Remapping Illinois
• Carmelite priest ‘Father Ray’ dedicated life to church, JCA, Marines
• Village to spend $1.28M on roads
• No injuries in electric main fire
• Joliet’s Nina Montello headed to Round 3 in spelling bee
• Man shoots at car with kids inside in Joliet
• Legislation could help local towns control water pipeline
• Experts say cellphones are possibly carcinogenic
• Foster is first candidate for new 11th Congressional District
• ‘Closer to equality’
• Legislature approves gambling expansion; could cost Joliet $6 million a year
• New Lenox hosts fire investigation class
• Kendall to choose from three board maps
• Shorewood to wash massive water tanks
• More funds for aid to jobless
• Idyllic Bicentennial Park to kick off summer entertainment season
• Kendall board to vote on three options for new districts
• Poll: Home projects rained out?
• Photo Funnies: Do you have a funny caption for this picture?
• State congressional map heads to Pat Quinn for OK
• Lincoln-Way North teacher to fly high with NASA
• Judge won’t dismiss case against woman accused of throwing fatal punch in $5 bet
• Some Illinois public school teachers earning six-figure salaries
• Fire in Joliet Township building
• Torch Run Quick Stop contest this week in Shorewood
• Steamy Memorial Day, but no records set
• Memorial Day ceremony at national cemetery in Elwood honors fallen soldiers
• Water billing: Joliet to meet with residents
• People overcome by heat at Lockport, Plainfield Memorial Day events
• Poll: Marking Memorial Day
• Joliet as 2nd largest Ill. city? Analysis says it could happen
• Minooka joins fight against plan to slice into towns’ tax share
• Will County EMA dog helps after Joplin tornado
• Even for injured woman, details of racetrack death hazy
• Valley View names new administrators
• Be cautious when hiring someone
• Channahon teachers retire
• Southwest police blotter
• Spelling Wiz heading to D.C. for National Bee
• Restaurateur aimed for smiles, more than profits
• Mokena residents to get I-80 noise barrier
• Photo gallery: Remembering Civil War vets
• Chemical plant fire forces evacuations
• Collision survivors saved by the belt
• K of C to sponsor Minooka blood drive
• Minooka High plans to raise fees
• Homer Glen hires firm to find village manager
• Block party to benefit Lockport food pantry
• Pulse: Will County Board in dark about transportation district plans
• Lockport rivalries continue as city aldermen debate hot-button issues, big-ticket items
• Joliet Diocese school honors 125th class amid worries of closure
• contention in central square?
• Lewis gets grant
• Alternative to destroying dog?
• Last graduates of St. Patrick’s?
• All-day kindergarten at VVSD?
• Mission to Alabama needs volunteers
• 2 biking Joliet teens accused of firing gun
• Legislation aims to reunite lost pets with owners
• Summit Hill superintendent opts to step down from job
• Home care worker could face jail time
• Statistics: Crime rose in 2010
• 2 from Northwest Side charged with running $5-million pot-growing operations in Joliet
• Sex offender board lacks tracking system
• Plainfield to ‘tweak’ comprehensive plan
• Ready for civil unions
• New tollway rep. needed
• Police blotter: Fire damaged Joliet home
• Poll: Texting while driving
• Jury convicts man who had sex with 13-year-old Frankfort girl
• Volunteers honors those buried at Lincoln National Cemetery
• Congressional map would split Fox Valley, group Walsh and Hultgren
• New congressional map would split Will County six ways
• Judge won’t dismiss case against woman accused of throwing fatal punch in $5 bet
• Who will speak for Naperville?
• Volunteers set up Vietnam wall in New Lenox
• Sweep finds $5 million of pot in Joliet houses
• Joliet park named after former Mayor Art Schultz
• Roolf pushes for local rep on tollway board
• City park renamed for longtime mayor
• New ratings for teachers
• FDIC orders bank to raise funds
• Slammers have good opener by league standards
• Police blotter: Armed man allegedly tries to flee Joliet cops
• Manhattan to kick off first of three summer concerts
• Fuel Leak closes I-80 ramp in Joliet
• Will County man charged with molesting young girl for years
• LTHS staffer resigns, is arrested for alleged sexual conduct with student
• Emerald city: Ash borer’s arrival jeopardizes Joliet trees
• Minooka swears in village board members, planning commissioners
• JTHS board picks member from 16 applicants
• Communities commemorate Memorial Day
• Starz drama show tapes at Doggie Diner in Aurora
• Retiring school chief sends off Minooka grads
• Troy plans school projects
• Dead, rabid bat found outside Bolingbrook home
• Kendall condemns land for road
• Flood concerns grow as rivers rise
• JCA to honor Sister Faith, school’s retiring leader
• Joliet YMCA swimmers try to beat Navy SEAL test
• Keith Pain resigns as Dist. 161 superintendent
• I-80 construction woes to make for a ‘messy summer’
• Police blotter: Joliet man faces battery charge
• Public weighs in on county redistricting
• Joliet councilman organizes tornado relief collection
• Joliet refinery problem may hike gas prices
• Coach charged with sexual abuse
• From $20 prostitution to theft, battery and firearms in Will Co.
• Channahon park gets splash pad
• Jesse Jackson Jr. testifies of alleged extortion in Blagojevich retrial
• Poll: Do you heed warnings?
• Police release security video, timeline in search for missing boy
• Rain leaves suburbs soggy
• Memorial Day parade returns to Lockport
• Wheatland Twp. residents put stop to $1.5M building plan
• Shorewood site back in Kohl’s sights
• Kendall: Tax not enough to pay bonds?
• Fishing tournament raises record $38K
• New Lenox to host Vietnam Wall
• JCA to honor school’s retiring leader
• Troy students won’t hear of HPV vaccine at school
• More storms on the way as front moves in
• ComEd rate hike ahead
• Area teens busted in vehicle burglaries
• Tornado watch in effect until 1 p.m.
• Sources: Blagojevich team to call Rahm Emanuel, Jesse Jackson Jr.
• Plainfield mulls street closures
• Outlook better for college grads
• Local teens busted in vehicle burglaries
• Explicit messages read at sex abuse trial
• St. Joseph Academy to offer Summer Scholars
• Police Blotter: Homer Glen man faces DUI charge
• Life in limbo as dad, family yearn for word on missing 6-year-old
• Graphic testimony heard in case of man accused of molesting Frankfort teen
• ComEd rate hike to cost customers about $37.80 more a year
• Blagojevich defense to call Rahm Emanuel, Jesse Jackson Jr.: sources
• Making Joliet beautiful
• Donations to benefit family of local woman
• PLSD picks new assistant leader
• Employees take charge of their weight
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Students Skype top physicist
• New Lenox OKs special-use requests
• Kendall home values down, taxes still up
• 7 million expected on Ilinois Tollways this Memorial Day weekend
• Legislation could give boost to farmers markets
• Port authority plan troubled
• Liquor later? Splash Station dry for now
• State to spray insecticide on Will County sites
• JTHS teacher resigns amid rumors of sex with students
• Two men stabbed in alleged gang fight
• Homer Glen candidate concedes trustee race
• Riot ready: Joliet, Plainfield police train at old prison
• Acid spill injures worker in Morris
• Nicor volunteers spruce up Kendall food pantry
• Poll: Leaving town for Memorial Day?
• Abe Lincoln National Cemetery needs volunteers for flag duty
• Plainfield East High School honors first class of graduates
• Volunteers sought to put out flags at Abe Lincoln
• Man gets prison sentence for  pot possession
• Will County deputies receive medals of valor for their actions
• Arbitration puts Joliet paramedic back to work after firing
• Dems want to paint new Congressional map blue
• Speed limits are on Channahon’s radar
• Why did the cow cross Ford Road? To get to Three Rivers school
• Kendall delays setting fee for new civil union licenses
• Pulse: Will County reapportionment getting political
• Bolingbrook High valedictorian thrives despite turmoil of being Drew Peterson’s son
• Business classes to be offered at Joliet church
• Police blotter: Building’s sprinklers quell fire in Will County
• Billboards Enter Digital Age, County Responds
• Plainfield School Board nears completion of bus purchases
• Plainfield schools to vote on $288K software to aid learning
• Joliet to allow online water bill payment
• Plainfield water costs rise
• Warehouse workers file suit in Will
• Schools tackle tutoring and potential change to tenure
• $5.8M for sewer overhaul
• Wilmington given combat-flown flag
• Poll: I-80 road work headaches?
• Will County OKs pool safety rule
• New Lenox gives cheerleaders kudos
• Autopsy performed on Will County crash victim
• Dairy Queen exec celebrates chain’s start in Joliet
• Kendall County home values down, taxes still up
• Two charged in 2009 Channahon slaying may plead guilty
• Plainfield man found guilty of sex assault
• Proposal for Chicago casino gets boost from Emanuel and Quinn
• Three hurt in crash near Crest Hill
• Baseball fans find fun at Joliet Slammers’ home opener
• Police blotter: Wilton Township crash kills Ind. man
• Attorney to speak on mental health issues
• FBI investigating ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski in Tylenol deaths
• Map of new Illinois districts released after secret deliberations
• Police identify I-80 crash victim
• Police come up empty in massive search for Aurora boy
• Grundy police, firefighters honor their fallen comrades
• FBI investigating ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski in Tylenol deaths
• Orland Park woman finds male intruder in bedroom wearing women's underwear 
• Wilmington wants in on port authority plan
• Shorewood sets limits on street-corner fundraising
• Lockport’s Mount Ebal church to mark pastor’s anniversary
• Losing seat by eight votes, would-be Homer Glen trustee seeks recount
• Will County approves new billboard rules and fees
• Romeoville intersection remains closed following butane leak
• Historic Homer Township barn finds new home on Cedar Road
• Eco-friendly event offers family fun in Joliet
• Man: Ex-classmate fired shots at my car
• Rezin to hold Tele-Townhall on Thursday
• State police will investigate fatal Channahon crash
• Event celebrates old barn’s new digs
• Police: Crest Hill man charged with child porn thought about killing family
• Teamwork pays off for Joliet police
• Poll: Ready for the Slammers?
• Survey: Male grads offered more money
• One-stop local sales shop?
• Plainfield Great Read honors writers and artists
• Channahon first: Woman leads plan commission
• River facility named for woman who urged safety in paddle sports
• Channahon ordinance seperates prairie plants from weeds
• Mokena home could become landmark
• Joliet council to tackle budget
• Local woman charged in prostitution sting
• Joliet councilman wants action on garbage complaints
• State, local cops to climb doughnut shops for Special Olympics
• Ride of Silence to be Wednesday
• Joliet mayor, terminated worker dispute firing motivations
• Domestic dispute that caused school lockdown ends
• Mokena school board tweaks schedule
• Silver Cross staff elects medical officers
• Planting on target in Will County fields
• State aid keeps Minooka Grade School District’s balances ‘healthy’
• Diocese of Joliet getting new bishop
• Joliet Central celebrates door restorations
• Joliet Councilwoman feels snubbed by mayor
• Police blotter: Two men shoot 22-year-old in Joliet
• Curtains for Drew Peterson? Case is subject of Chicago play
• Giarrante cuts office staff
• Joliet repairing wells before water use spikes in summer
• Route 59 work to limit street access in Plainfield
• Mokena school official: Spanish class a luxury
• Poll: Cold, wet spring
• Shorewood absorbs cost of well motors
• Troy Township SUV crash closes two lanes on I-55
• Romeoville butane leak under control
• Joliet’s new deputy liquor commisioner begins service
• 3 children, 3 adults killed in Aurora apartment fire
• Village swears in trustees
• Pulse: Baseball passion is strong in Joliet
• Shorewood sending message to Springfield
• Southwest update: Lt. gov. backs Joliet Arsenal redevelopment
• Southwest Weekly police blotter
• Twp. OKs agenda for new building meeting
• Scouts improve We Care facility
• Garage sale for a good cause
• Some pennies for fountain of pride
• Will County ceremony honors fallen police officers
• Romeoville butane leak evacuates area, closes roads
• Six killed in Aurora apartment fire
• Joliet Slammers getting ready for opening day
• Former Plainfield man sent to prison for child porn
• Police blotter: Firefighters extinguish Joliet warehouse fire
• HazMat crews working as butane leaks from Romeoville pipeline
• Plainfield schools promote to fill new administrator jobs
• Part of County Line Road to close Monday
• Homer Glen trustees oppose state tax plan
• Joliet Slammers prepare for first season
• Celebrating the Civil War
• Mokena OKs permit for truck dealer
• Board split on Grundy map
• Thanking police for ultimate sacrifice
• Senior event to target home repair scams
• Event embraces books, the planet
• Health Dept.: Report dead birds
• Volunteers fight to keep nature center
• JTHS seeks replacement board member
• Braidwood likes garden plan, but puts foot down on livestock
• Firefighters battle Joliet warehouse fire
• Poll: What are the Bulls chances?
• Metra train crash kills truck driver, sends 26 to hospital in Des Plaines
• Taste of Joliet looks to make big money again this year
• Joliet Grade School board member gets district job
• Businesses flowing in alongside new Yorkville whitewater park
• Local firefighters learn to free trapped crash victims
• Shorewood acts to get cash to finish subdivision work
• 2011 Taste of Joliet will be a little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n’ roll
• Donations needed for Joliet’s July 4 fireworks
• Creation of port authority could bring in money for Will County roads
• CED: Bad economy not keeping Will County down
• Ramp, lanes close during I-80 work
• Chevy Impala stolen from street in Joliet
• Joliet man reappointed to ISU board
• Will County Board Reviews Executive’s Nine District Reapportionment Plan, Public Hearing Scheduled
• Mayors denounce ‘stealth’ tax; demand local share of income tax
• Free Joliet event lets kids climb all over police and fire vehicles
• Joliet Grade hires board member
• Exhibits,  lessons slated for green fest
• Angry mayors denounce ‘stealth’ tax, demand share of income tax revenue
• Poll: Smoking in casinos
• Joliet revamping utility bills this month
• IDOT begins Rt. 30 work
• As home values drop your tax bill goes up
• Roadwork on U.S. 30 to begin today
• Three county board maps have to become one reapportionment plan
• Channahon crash victim ID’d
• Armadillo found far from home in Will County
• Plainfield schools won’t release survey information
• Gotta Do It
• Plainfield schools’ leader hears input to fight deficit
• Funds available for making home energy efficient
• Channahon officer suspended for part in strip club brawl
• Police: Man shot in Joliet after finding prostitute online
• Made-over Lincoln-Way raffle has $100K prize
• Bill seeking stiffer penalties for torture carries Joliet woman’s name
• New Lenox welcomes its new French Market
• Bike can’t save you from DUI charge
• Valley View schools recall all but eight instructional aides
• NASCAR car wash to benefit local Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Joliet Touch a Truck lets kids climb in big vehicles
• Channahon crash kills woman and injures little girls
• Police: 3,127 pirated DVDs seized at Plainfield flea market
• Judge rules local man insane in death of son
• Joliet transportation center plan looks good even if high-speed rail gets iffy
• Plainfield businessmen want village to host craft beer fest
• Judge finds local man insane in death of son
• Will County seniors group serving lunch buffet
• Wheatland meeting canceled, rescheduled for Thursday
• Midwest to get $400M for rail plan
• Public defender takes over Vaughn murder case
• Joliet’s Autobahn Country Club hosts national One Lap road race
• Darien woman gets probation for stealing $4K from high school
• More local residents upside down on mortgages
• Channahon commission losing longtime member
• Kendall not rushing to put board meetings on video
• Lockport military doctor is home safe from serving in Afghanistan
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Plainfield Central’s retiring art teacher plans final masterpiece
• Triad meeting to help seniors protect themselves from scams
• Feds to explain safety record at Braidwood nuclear plant
• East Joliet firefighters rescue man from home blaze
• Yorkville High teens create prom attire with duct tape
• Don’t look for Kendall meeting videos online
• Morris man killed while doing community service in park
• Projectile flies through bathroon while Joliet man in shower
• Former Bolingbrook fugitive arrested in Chicago
• Mental patient who slit daughter’s throat wants more freedom
• Poll: Do you owe more than your home is worth?
• More than 400 hear message: Bring ‘A’ game
• Kendall senior service groups to get $318K
• Wheatland Township to plan for controversial meeting
• Senior freeze zero on some tax bills
• Elwood hosts Russian visit
• Joliet firefighters practice rescue operations at vacant home
• Projectile penetrates man’s wall
• Gus Macker tourney draws closer
• Minooka journalism students win berths at state competition
• Southwest Calendar: Elwood church’s potato bar benefits troops group
• Midewin tours open to the public
• Firefighters to host open house
• Timbers of Shorewood to host dance and financial events
• Southwest communities’ libraries schedule public events
• Woman cared for all living things
• Pulse: Joliet police laud outgoing mayor, council members
• Lincoln-Way High School Board picks president
• Wilmington alderman Russ Gilmour retires
• Full-day kindergarten for Channahon schools
• Crest Hill treasurer’s memo raises questions
• Morris adding fees on vehicles towed during arrests
• Plainfield closing 127th Street for paving work
• Herald-News designer wins exemplary journalism award
• Residents worrisome after pair of Route 59 crashes
• Curbing crime on Route 59
• Joliet rolls out red carpet for Dairy Queen on Route 66
• Income tax to pay state bills?
• Reverend’s move may signal city changes
• Joliet residents clean up their city
• Brain injury fundraiser set
• Frankfort school board’s last act: Raises for administrators and staff
• Plainfield prepares for disaster
• Valley View principal retiring
• Mail carriers collecting food for local pantries Saturday
• P.E. teacher gets management spot
• FermiLab funding will halt furloughs
• $186M boost for rail service
• Oath of office
• Will County Board Outraged Over Proposed Cuts To County, Potential Backdoor Tax Increase By State
• ‘Something Borrowed’ hottie wows crowd at Morris showing
• Poll: Honoring mom
• Police blotter: Joliet woman charged with forgery
• Suspected stomach flu strikes Fairmont School District
• It’s pops culture at Morris band event
• Will County residents pray outside courthouse
• Morris council split on $34K for City Hall equipment
• Illinois House passes bill requiring backseat passengers to use seatbelts
• Joliet Park District hosting nationa collegiate track meet
• Men share their success stories to help black Joliet teens
• Vaughn lawyers could cost county $250K
• Investigators probe Joliet porch blaze
• Troy Triad to offer training for shelter volunteers
• Will County Board Reviews 13 District Reapportionment Plan
• Obama honors 9/11 victims at ground zero: ‘We will never forget’
• Dairy Queen execs coming to Joliet for Route 66 event
• College athletes hit Joliet track
• Romeoville welcomes its leaders to board and office
• Arguing takes over Wheatland meeting
• Amnesia mystery: Where was missing Mich. mom before appearing in Joliet?
• Cinco de Mayo celebrated by bilingual students in Romeoville
• Joliet firefighters resurrect St. Florian’s Day Mass
• Plainfield group takes part in National Day of Prayer
• New Lenox part of massive safety network
• ExxonMobil funds environtmental science expo in Channahon
• Fermilab expects to avoid furloughs this year
• Woman allegedly uses ‘intimate area’ to smuggle gun into Will County jail
• Shooters target two Joliet homes within hours
• Will new council change Joliet?
• Joliet amnesia victim identified as missing Michigan mom
• Plainfield and Culver’s to boost United Way
• Oh, No You Didn’t: Woman allegedly tried to smuggle gun in ‘intimate area’
• Foreclosures in Joliet falling prey to copper thieves
• Man arrested for Bolingbrook loan store holdup
• Unity group ready to clean up Joliet
• Laraway School Board  accepting applications
• Kendall practicing not-so-safe sex
• Ex-Will Co. treasurer McGuire now Braidwood clerk
• Huge truck dealership acquires Joliet business
• Minooka High needs a 7th board member
• iPhone bill goes to taxpayers
• Troy district mourns longtime educator
• Police looking to ID woman
• Pope John Paul II left lasting impression on Joliet church’s music director
• Joliet council members take seats
• Men with phony gun try to rob Joliet store
• Plainfield lecture to offer gardening secrets
• Joliet City Council OKS Fisher’s appointment
• Joliet’s Mound Road to be closed Wednesday
• Man guilty of attempted murder
• County to celebrate 175th birthday
• Jail program could halt if funding faulters
• Will County looks to build facilities
• White House: Osama bin Laden was not armed during U.S. raid
• Poll: Do you need photo proof of bin Landen’s death?
• Osama bin Laden raid took months to plan
• Redistricting hearing set
• Troy schools swear election winners into office
• Recent severe weather draws crowd to Fermilab storm forum
• Blagojevich re-trial: Less flash, fewer allegations and just as many objections
• Raid to get Osama bin Laden took months to plan
• Bin Laden’s burial at sea could stoke anger
• Joliet residents pleased, yet wary, after bin Laden's demise
• Political experts say killing of bin Laden was 'mission accomplished'
• How the U.S. found, killed Osama bin Laden
• Will Co. police, firefighters agree: The fight isn’t over
• Witnesses tell Joliet police shots exchanged near Woodruff Road 
• Sales Associates at RE/MAX Realty of Joliet Saluted for 2010 Success in Illinois Real Estate Sales
• Local police, firefighters agree: The fight isn’t over
• Mysterious powder closes Elgin courthouse
• Minooka’s budget balanced for 2012
• Shorewood board honors member
• Route 66 Red Carpet event to celebrate first Dairy Queen
• How DNA testing confirmed bin Laden’s death
• Will County property tax bills climb
• Will County firefighters tested at Midwest Training Academy
• Wounded U.S. soldiers aided by Exelon Nuclear’s ‘Fishing for a Cure’
• Southwest Police Blotter
• Community comes together on Caring Day
• Channahon searches for big trees
• training blaze
• Volunteers, mayor  unite for Lockport Arbor Day event
• Trio charged with mob action in Bolingbrook
• LTHS board race decided
• Gun fired, man arrested
• Romeoville students to get lesson in safe driving
• Southwest Seniors
• Southwest Club Notes
• Joliet man’s addiction is a lesson for all
• EXELON’S FISHING FOR A CURE IS SOLD OUT
• Pulse: Joliet Junior College buying more downtown property?
• HIGH-TECH HANDY WORK
• Laraway school gets $50K donation
• Ruse-burglars take $7K from Channahon senior
• Giarrante gets down to business
• Romeoville coach cleared of charges
• Man sentenced for not testifing
• Minooka police to auction bikes May 21
• Garbage pickup may get pricier for some seniors
• Area still at risk for severe weather
• Group violated Open Meetings Act?
• Celebrating trees in Joliet
• Duo wins sustainability award
• Superintendent has ‘passion for education’
• Board Reviews Nine District Reapportionment Plan
• Police Blotter: Ex Joliet man sentenced for refusing to testify
• Joliet warehouse workers sue over discrimination, sexual harassment
• Joliet City Council hopeful would avoid pay cuts if appointed
• Silence in murder case costs man added prison time
• Old Joliet Sheraton hotel could fit into new JJC campus plan
• Presidential Fitness Award
• Old Joliet Sheraton Hotal could fit into new JJC campus plan
• Joliet Mayor Art Schultz leaves office Tuesday
• JJC auto students get up close and personal with Chevy Volt
• Police blotter: Shots fired in Joliet
• Will County 4-H Spring Show to be Saturday
• Homer Glen hearing set for 159th Street widening plan
• Proposed Will County Board map can be viewed online
• Plainfield School Board is back at work with new faces
• Will County property tax bills in the mail
• Wheatland Twp. sets a meeting to set meeting date
• Plainfield S. events curb prom drinking
• Exelon buys rival for $7.9B
• No vacancy at former hotel site?
• Bolingbrook approves $58M budget, spending more than last year
• Shorewood fetes end of Rt. 59 work
• 13-year-old under house arrest in Joliet for alleged mugging
• A sidewalk in corn fields?
• Cyclists asked to report bikes hitting car doors
• Bolingbrook paves way for Buona Beef
• Joliet to start hydrant flushing
• Frankfort staff to get raises
• Crews clean up spilled diesel fuel after Romeoville crash
• Mokena MOMS club schedules open house
• Police: Fleeing suspect runs into cops training session in Joliet
• Raises set for Frankfort staff
• Plainfield Central physics educator honored for teaching style
• Plainfield rehabbing its facade grants
• Frankfort Square Marine and sailor welcomed home
• Fox River canoe, kayak race set
• Full slate set for 2011 Caring Days
• Oswego’s annual wine festival a family affair
• Poll: Royal watcher?
• 75-year-old man in Will Co. jail on sex abuse charges
• Will County still working out rules for digital billboards
• Lockport woman says Pope John Paul II behind miracle cure
• Prosecutors: Joliet man shot after fight involving his sons
• Will County Board still working out rules for digital billboards
• Seminar aims to prevent abductions
• Plainfield disaster drill needs volunteers
• Firefighters extricate crash victim in Plainfield
• Man jailed on sexual abuse charges
• Lockport woman says the late pope caused miracle cure
• Minooka High touts progress
• Pittsburgh Steelers player visits Joliet school
• Flood watch issed for area
• Do you have a funny caption for this pair of pictures?
• Plainfield plans ahead
• Workday slated for Rock Run
• Ticketed and ticked? Fight tollway online
• Study lauds First Midwest
• Police, Lockport state rep tout value of preschool at Valley View
• Midewin Tour Series
• Police: 5- and 6-year-old mugged by older children
• Dem challenges Kendall GOP leaders’ meeting
• Poll: Should high schools let boys wear earrings?
• Local police and lawmaker promote value of preschool
• Have opinion on state Senate districts?
• Program on wildlife predators offered
• Joliet man shot during Easter card game
• Will County home prices up, but March sales fall
• Victory sweet for JJC chef on Food Network
• JTHS board won’t budge on allowing boys to wear earrings
• Dem challenges Kendall GOP panel meeting
• Former Stateville warden named Illinois prisons director
• Tollway to allow online dispute of violations
• Woman praises judge for sentencing Mokena grandson to 40 years in prison
• Choir strikes the right note
• Grundy Co. board member resigns Morris High position
• Collection agency hired to find Kendall scofflaws
• Beauty was ahead of her time
• Southwest police blotter
• Go green, one person can make a big difference
• Paving the way for JTHS
• Coal City man hit by train, dies
• Southwest Calendar
• Pulse
• High school finals to be uniformly important
• Crisis line to host bowling by candlelight
• Lockport trees get a free trimming
• Heroin use a local epidemic
• Joliet city manager: Planned transit  center ‘can stand on its own’
• Mokena man’s book, ‘Every 21 Seconds’ , being made into movie
• Firefighters’ food drive helps the hungry
• Rail quiet zones for Crest Hill
• Police arrest suspected gang members
• Joliet mayor: Planned transit  center ‘can stand on its own’
• Two charged with selling pot in JJC parking lot
• Southwest School Events
• Southwest Support Groups
• Kendall to reimburse company
• Rehashing old boundaries
• Prescription drug drop-off set
• Retailer signs Crest Hill lease
• L-Way foundation raises $112,000
• Officials target dangerous drugs
• United Cerebral Palsy names Jim Mullins as president, CEO
• Private donations could pay for Yorkville bike trails
• New guidelines for identifying Alzheimer’s prior to symptoms
• Mayors: I-294, I-57 interchange needed
• Buy a house, get a free car: incentives rule
• Plainfield School Board mulls Chinese language program
• New Lenox set for parade
• New Lenox road work set
• Village’s budget $2 million less than last year
• Will County Board, Public to Review Redistricting Plan Wednesday
• Two men charged with selling pot in JJC parking lot
• Romeoville brothers face gun, drug charges
• Two charged in JJC drug bust
• Frankfort jeweler looking for moms who rock
• After Kevin Fox lawsuit, Will Co. needs money for defense fund
• Lockport High School considers another referendum
• Exelon tells Braidwood residents nuclear facilities safe
• Brothers arrested for  alleged cocaine dealing
• Will Co. asks for defense fund loan
• Local man runs into traffic, dies
• Program to discuss veterans’ benefits
• Potential jurors for Blago: Corruption common in politics
• Burglars get $80K from New Lenox home
• Poll: Easter eggs
• Blagojevich in court for jury selection in corruption trial
• New school debate
• PROTECTION AGAINST DISASTER
• Building industry showcase Thursday at Joliet casino
• New Lenox promotes senior health and safety program
• Lockport teen dies after crash
• Lucky day for man in Joliet shooting
• Will Co. asks for defense fund loan
• JJC chef to compete  on the Food Network
• Channahon expands impound offenses
• ‘Smiling’ officer promoted to chief
• Channahon man dead after crash on Indiana Toll Road
• Lockport man killed in Joliet car crash
• Obama at Facebook: Deficits can be cut
• Chicago fireboat honors firefighter, Lemont native
• Romeoville offers $85 rain barrels
• ‘Voice for our most vulnerable’
• Joliet city worker wages one-man war against gang graffiti
• Smoke forces evacuation of Shorewood senior home
• Mans actions in jail get his freedom revoked
• Man convicted on AIDS case arrested on sex charge
• Joliet man arrested for molesting 2 girls
• Joliet city manager: Pay cuts, outsourcing two budget options
• Kendall Co. police dog bites man
• Joliet man charged with posing as cop
• Former rep. Gordon lands state job
• Outsourcing and pay cuts?
• Resident: Trucks create hazard in subdivision
• State police unit cracks down on cargo theft
• Foreclosures high in area
• Fireboat named for local man
• Ohio Street closes on Monday for rail work
• Joliet cleans up on May 7
• Kendall begins debate on board redistricting
• U.S. Sen. proposes ideas to lower gasoline prices
• Poll: Medicare cuts
• McDonald’s hiring day draws crowds, high hopes
• Joliet man charged for posing as cop
• Lockport City Council has concerns on senior housing plan
• Job-seekers flock to McDonald’s as eatery supersizes hiring
• Kendall begins debate on board redistricting
• Police: It’s a sticker, not a badge
• 50,000 jobs at McDonald’s
• Development spurs concern
• Hug holds Joliet council seat lead in final vote tally
• Canadian National to help ease railroad traffic in Joliet
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Polls: Bulls playoff run
• The Rev. Maternoski, former pastor at St. Dennis, dies
• Frankfort eases rules on selling used items
• New guidelines for identifying Alzheimer’s before symptoms occur
• Laid-off female Plainfield school staffers get arbitration
• Taxpayers rally in Joliet on Tax Day
• Joliet’s website to get facelift
• Officials aim to reorganize Will County board
• St. Mary Nativity’s former pastor dies
• Prescription drug drop-off to be April 30
• Donation to help Grundy police buy snowmobile
• Private donations could pay for Yorkville bike trails
• Sun-Times reporters, photographer win Pulitzer for local reporting
• Election judge fired for alleged comment
• Illinois House to hold redistricting public hearings
• Generating station outage to cost over $2M
• New Lenox budget shows village is in good shape
• Will County Board to vote on digital billboard ordinance
• Poll: Did you report Internet purchases?
• Judge warns Rod Blagojevich to tone down rhetoric
• Easter Bunny hops into town for Joliet parade
• Bolingbrook zoning map error at center of lawsuit
• Homer Glen businesses fighting 159th Street expansion
• Joliet Cares clinic gives lift to jobless, uninsured
• Southwest Police Blotter
• Schools, industry working together
• Southwest Classroom Notes
• Hopping down the bunny trail
• Lifting hearts, helping hands
• Narcotic investigation ends
• Shorewood HR goes high-tech
• Death of man in Braidwood fire ruled suicide
• Southwest Seniors
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• Guilty verdict to help stabbing victim heal
• ‘Scribbler’s error’ prompted lawsuit?
• Website transparency earns A+ for Will County
• Cemetery landmarked
• Joliet Diocese gets advice to help woo Hispanic students
• Computer infrastructure upgrade to cost Minooka High over $700K
• Shorewood set to celebrate Arbor Day
• Businesses fighting 159th Street plan
• Shorewood: Return to Route 59 this April
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• Joliet woman proved any problem can be overcome
• Will-Grundy Center supporters will be honored at awards program 
• Lockport mayor cites Route 7 corridor, Lockport H.S. work as successes 
• Joliet teen charged with two armed robberies
• Dillard renews call for Illinois death penalty
• Students’ off-campus parking upsets locals
• Builders to save on Shorewood fees
• WRESTLING WARRIOR
• Independent living center event to honor supporters
• City reminds residents of recycling schedule
• 3 hurt in I-80 wreck in Minooka
• Senate gives suburbs okay to take over water company
• Meeting to address gypsy moth threat
• Toy theft no joke
• Romeoville coach wants DUI arrest quashed
• Former city planner Fisher favored for open Joliet council seat
• State's Attorney investigating Will County board member's email use
• Fisher named for Joliet City Council opening
• Dillard renews call for death penalty
• Wheatland election judge axed for comment to mom of disabled girl
• Election judge axed for rude comment to disabled girl’s mom
• Kris Wilkerson named Joliet’s top 911 dispatcher
• Poll; President Barack Obama’s budget plan
• Valley View staff departures reduce number of layoffs
• Wheatland Township residents halt plans for new town hall
• Joliet officials review financial future of Splash Station
• Mayor wants apology from superintendent
• Divided Grundy board puts Sheriff Marketti back on 911 board
• Roadwork along I-80 expected to slow traffic in Will Co.
• Former city planner Fischer favored for open Joliet council seat
• State's Attorney investigating Will Co. board member's email use
• Former city planner to take Joliet council seat?
• Did county official break law with election e-mail?
• TO DISPATCH AND PROTECT
• Construction will slow interstates
• Teen sentenced to 40 years for murder of 4-year-old sister
• Joliet man beaten to death in Gary alley
• Attrition reduces layoffs in Valley View
• Minutes saved add up for kids
• Gus Macker is back in town
• Village OKs budget with $200K surplus
• ComEd offering Helping Hand
• Frankfort officials differ on right time for new addition
• Education reform awaits vote
• Foreclosures still coming
• Sweeping school reform bill targets school day, strikes, bad teachers
• Police: Watch for motorcycles
• Joliet hospital welcomes several doctors to team
• Joliet’s civil warrior
• Police: Trio caught transporting marijuana plants
• Police blotter: Texas man charged with sex abuse in Will County
• Weather spotter training draws dozens as tornado season looms
• Portage teen uses girl’s nude photo as threat for not getting sax
• A big fish story
• Blagojevich: Prosecutors trying to stop me from proving innocence
• Parade to get Joliet hoppin’
• Police: Local drug officers in fight at strip club
• Waterpark liquor discussion delayed
• Draft-A-Bill contest open to teens
• Lewis University begins work on athletic complex
• Duo to get sustainability award
• Historical society seeking artifacts
• Giarrante says he’ll name replacement Friday
• Joliet man gets 51 years for murder; victim called girlfriend fat
• Baba’s corner to get makeover
• Lockport Twp. spring cleanup to be May 7
• Minooka First staves off newcomers
• Poll: Do you take a daily multivitamin?
• Veteran writer Woodward brings life tales to Benedictine
• Kinzinger backs plan to revamp Medicare using private insurers
• Family behind famous chain opens eatery
• Police: Saw-wielding man issues threats
• Overcoming abuse: Rescued horses get special care, training
• Prosecutors seek to use slain wife’s e-mails in Vaughn murder case
• Dresden information night to be Tuesday
• THE BEST OF BROWN’S?
• Wet bar good for Splash Station?
• Four charges of aggravated DUI in crash that killed Crete woman
• Fort Sumter: Somber 150th anniversary of Civil War
• Kinzinger wants to privatize Medicare, not Social Security
• Poll: Still a good investment?
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Tears flow as Plainfield school boundary change OK’d
• Police: Drunken driver hits people and horse, killing woman
• State’s Road Plan Includes Money For Illiana
• Lawsuit: Bolingbrook trying to bar church from new site
• DuPage joins other library systems in push for merger
• Winner can’t take Minooka High board seat
• Joliet’s casino income dips
• Crest Hill honors police officer’s valor under fire
• Two grants too much for one property?
• Guilty plea for torched lawn
• Winning Little Lotto ticket sold in New Lenox
• Get books appraised at Lemont library event
• ‘Controlled burn’ sparks barn fire
• Poll: Spring cleaning underway?
• ‘Violated’: Ruse burglars targeting seniors in Will County
• Juveniles might be charged in theft of fundraiser ducks
• Windows smashed in two business burglaries
• No one injured in Frankfort fire
• High School prom horrors
• NBC Chicago meteorologist shines for Lockport students
• Businesses robbed
• ‘American Idol’ singer’s band features Minooka drummer
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• IDOT meeting to discuss Wilmington interchanges
• Could you be the area’s future baseball legend?
• More layoffs in Channahon
• ‘A good friend and a very generous guy’
• Wish granted: Girl going to Disney World
• Deadline looms for Grundy County rain-barrel orders
• Church schedules ham and scalloped potato dinner
• Mayor against transfer of students
• Will state merge districts?
• Teen shot in hand in Joliet
• Police tag two suspects in ducks theft
• Honoring Civil War vet
• Plainfield plans for annual cruise nights
• Lockport eyes zoning requests
• St. Patrick plan creates a ‘hard choice’ for parents
• $27M worth of cannabis found in moving truck in Franklin Park
• Joliet Diocese restructuring St. Pat’s school, seeking Hispanic students
• Burger battle is cops vs. firefighters
• Morris man charged with drug possession
• Hamman Farm pays fine in landscape waste dispute
• Joliet Diocese restructuring St. Pat’s school, seeking Hispanic students
• Suburban church gets attention with ‘Friday’ parody video
• Channahon crash kills trucker
• Poll: Government shutdown
• Congress doesn’t shut down during a shutdown
• Teen will help lead Minooka schools
• Drew Peterson pen pal dishes to Enquirer
• Man found guilty of Peotone murder
• Cops: Rt. 59 driver doing 123 mph
• Mayor’s son to seek city seat despite conviction
• Overhaul OK’d for Morris Pool
• Grundy County Red Cross slates blood drives for volunteer work
• Federal cuts no threat to Joliet vets
• Teen will help lead schools
• Make a name for Joliet school
• Local brunch to benefit a bloodhound
• County kicks off campaign for control of planned third airport
• Thrown for a loop by potential employer?
• Team to inspect area nuclear plant
• Lemont woman sues cops
• Pace asks: Is new route needed?
• Opening Day for Metra’s Sox stop
• District 1 council race not yet decided
• Who will replace mayor-elect?
• Police blotter: Homeless sex offender failed to register
• Join the reapportionment process
• Oh, No You Didn’t: Driver uses fire to oust car smell
• Man hurt as Braidwood blaze destroys two homes, damages two others
• Fewer pupils, fewer staffers
• Crest Hill development slowed but not stagnant
• New leaders for Yorkville
• Should murderers have to register as sex offenders do?
• Voters OK Kane open space but nix Yorkville bike paths
• Back to the drawing board
• Man complains his Audi damaged by neighbor’s peacocks
• Bolingbrook teen gets five years for fatal DUI
• Romeoville to flush hydrants
• Plainfield’s balanced budget spends $42M
• Technology committee looks to improve Will data sharing
• CEO: Caterpillar is likely ‘here to stay’
• Tight Morris races vote in incumbent Republican and new Democrat
• Joliet City Council loses two incumbents
• Who won? Unofficial vote results for local elections
• Three of five incumbents win mayoral re-election locally
• Giarrante beats the field to become Joliet’s next mayor
• 20 votes separate LTHS candidates
• Lockport’s ballot crowded
• Plainfield school voters not swayed by spending
• School, park and electric referendums on local ballots
• Voters again shoot down LTHS building referendum
• Big contest winners
• Lockport cop gets six years for fatal DUI crash
• Honeybee case closed
• Registry for convicted murderers passes Illinois House
• Lewis University roommates facing several drug charges
• Troy Twp. to host shredding event
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• AAA: It’s getting more expensive to own a car
• All aboard for railroad safety event
• Hickory Creek workshop to be Thursday
• Fatal crash illustrates Rt. 59 residents’ fears
• Train service on Heritage Corridor line could increase
• Will County clerk has last-minute voting advice
• Joliet officials are pleased with new recycling system
• March for Meals raises funds and awareness
• Ill. Republicans reject Wis. approach to unions
• Homer Glen student can be ‘X Factor’ hit with a little help
• Illinois unveils new organ donation campaign
• More Illinoisans get out of state concealed-carry
• Dolton boy dies in freak roller coaster accident
• Police blotter
• Man dies after cycle strikes bus
• Bolingbrook food pantry hours
• Businesses nabbed for selling alcohol to minors
• Grundy County Health Department emphasizes infant immunization
• ‘The Bachelor King’ takes the stage at Channahon Junior High
• Three students win Rotary essay contest
• Candlelight bowl benefits local children with special needs
• Southwest Weekly: Support groups offer help for variety of issues
• Minooka High proves modern libraries need more than books
• Seven competing for three LTHS board slots
• Finding a new super
• Feds to probe workers’ compensation claims
• Mokena OKs parking tokens
• Joint venture to help Will develop a land use plan
• 2011 Grundy ag baby named
• No barrier could halt driven grandmother
• Classroom Notes: National art contest finalist
• Joliet mayoral candidates share ideas for city’s future
• Man dies after crash with bus
• Six seek two Lockport city council seats
• Yorkville to vote on sales tax hike to pay for sewers
• $24 million award upheld in fatal ’04 crash
• Mokena schools seeking more money
• Incumbents face stiff challenges in Morris
• Four seats open in Braidwood
• Provena honored
• Redistricting forum coming
• Doctors join Silver Cross
• Village Pride slate wants to keep leading Rockdale
• Web tax prompts company to move
• Murdered NIU student’s remains to be released to family
• County Highlighted as One of Healthiest in Illinois
• Romeoville football coach's DUI case contiued
• Joliet man convicted in ‘horrendous’ rape case
• Poll: Has a candidate visited your home?
• Attorneys agree to release slain student’s remains to family
• Romeoville football coach’s DUI case continued
• Police: Man threatened murder-case witness and prosecutor
• Joliet man convicted on three of five counts related to ‘horrendous’ rape case
• Joliet man guilty of murder, even if he didn’t pull the trigger
• Yorkville voters asked, are bike paths worth the money?
• DUI charge for Romeoville football coach
• $24 million award upheld in fatal crash
• 13-year sentence for fatal DUI crash in Mokena
• DUI charge for Romeoville football coach
• $24 million award upheld in fatal crash
• Big changes for District 5
• Joliet man guilty of murder, even if he didn’t pull the trigger
• 13-year sentence for fatal DUI crash in Mokena
• Couple, son seek three open seats on Rockdale board
• No one hurt in I-55 crash
• Plainfield Village Board candidates discuss budget options
• Big changes for District 5
• Time at church associated with higher obesity risk
• Couple, son seek three open seats on Rockdale board
• Unclaimed Lockport lottery ticket worth $250K
• No one hurt in I-55 crash
• State representative schedules hours in Lockport and Crest Hill
• State representative schedules hours in Lockport and Crest Hill
• Unclaimed Lockport lottery ticket worth $250K
• DUI charge for Romeoville High’s head football coach
• Time at church associated with higher obesity risk
• Plainfield Village Board candidates discuss budget options
• Five seek two council seats in Lockport
• CEO: Caterpillar not pulling out of Illinois
• Joliet mayor candidates’forum set at St. Francis
• Plainfield schools honor students with hearing losses
• Poll: Do you attend candidate forums or debates?
• JJC student allegedly left child porn in computer lab
• Radiation from Japan found in Will County
• Two in contest for Joliet Grade School at-large board seat
• A loaded question from grieving mom
• 74-year-old momreportedly beaten by her son again
• Art to brighten Romeoville
• Yorkville vote divided on rejection of KenCom plan
• Study: Retirees aren’t fond of Illinois
• Administrator joins Valley View
• L-Way North staff collects for pantry
• Kendall No. 1 in health in state
• Catherine Ann Velasco: No good moves seen in Plainfield
• Grundy fire chief under investigation
• Yard waste collection to start in Romeoville
• Illinois House votes to lift casino smoking ban
• Correction
• Girlfriend testifies in murder trial
• Biking path extension set for phase 1
• Three in the running for District 3 council spot
• Electronic recycling pickup service set for Will County
• Goose Island brewery sold to Anheuser-Busch
• Kendall firefighter charged with theft from department
• Seniors invited to Channahon luncheon
• Silver Cross in top 100 hospitals in U.S. for seventh year
• Mayoral candidate rallies against Caterpillar move
• New interchange becomes a reality for Grundy County
• Crest Hill ‘icon’ gets his due
• Two flown by copters from crash scene
• Report: ‘Superman’ may swoop into Plano
• Superintendent finalist ready to lead Joliet grade schools
• Three fires reported in Joliet
• Document shredding to be offered
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• Men Who Cook do so for a good cause
• Bill to get rid of township road districts worries some
• Too many false alarms will cost in Channahon
• Morris club raises funds for 3-year-old who has cancer
• A Devine presence at school
• Southwest Weekly: Police blotter
• Creek group seeks input
• Police: Drunken man strikes woman, cop
• Repairs set for Frankfort rail crossing
• Yorkville police on hunt for 2,500 missing rubber ducks
• Four battle for city council’s District 2 seat
• Lockport plan gets first nod
• Congressional Record
• Troy fundraiser to kick off park’s first full season
• Parent-friendly school schedule?
• Woman sentenced in Channahon killing, home invasion
• Laraway teacher saves student from choking
• Bolingbrook police seize drugs during two traffic stops
• Kendall to seek aid from Grundy?
• Shorewood caps saved vacations
• Teacher saves a student
• 15 years for fatal home invasion
• Plainfield man charged with hate crime
• Yorkville sees surplus for 2012 budget
• Talking East Side, West Side story in Joliet election
• Is Mihelich out as Joliet's Spanish Center director?
• Plainfield student shuffle?
• Police investigate 2-year-old’s injuries
• Joliet nurses’ 3-year contract with Provena includes raises
• Not registered yet? You can still vote
• Lockport firefighters collecting food for local families
• Police: Channahon man had sex with 11-year-old girl
• Life of Brian: Joliet ‘Dalmatians’ saved from cruel fate
• Morris’ eyesore to become Habitat site
• Bond refinancing saves Minooka High $369K
• Braidwood nuclear plant declares ‘unusual event’ for power glitch
• Bolingbrook park's newest workers: bees
• City workers taking early retirement
• Morris High School Board leader resigns
• No jail time for jealous brother who slit cat’s throat
• Rural sites, big potential
• A computer for every student?
• Minooka candidates run as teams for village seats
• Four vying for two JJC board positions
• Spring flaking out on local residents
• Police: Joliet sex offender had $15K worth of cannabis
• Is Shorewood budget first sign of upswing?
• Customer gets static over TV bills
• Five graduate from drug court
• Homer Glen might pay for 159th Street master plan
• Troy school names newest principal
• Poll: Libya crisis
• Oct. 24: Body believed to be that of missing NIU student
• Mayoral candidate Quillman ready to make ‘tough decisions’
• Cascade structures help clean water for Lockport
• Ready for ‘tough decisions’
• Joliet voters’ focus: money
• Thief nabs 180 pounds of cans
• Joliet bar shut down for seven days
• Plainfield bullying survey a surprise
• Plainfield School Board candidates address teacher-student boundaries
• Troy schools hiking some activity fees
• Teenage crash victim identified
• Plainfield schools examine proper student-staff boundaries
• Police: Group beat, mugged Joliet man
• Get Informed forum will host Joliet election candidates
• Former Joliet fire chief dies
• Joliet police lodge members to dish up spaghetti for a good cause
• Halvorson seeks IDOT post
• Plainfield district seeks input on 5-year plan
• Home sales fizzle out in local counties
• Shots fired outside Joliet nightclub
• Pulse: Will Co. courthouse lines matter of space or scheduling?
• Joliet teenager dies in Route 59 crash
• Lockport students help feed hungry Will Co. seniors
• Fatal crash on Route 59 in Joliet
• Pulse
• Joliet West pupils renovate property for ReStore outlet
• Summer classes may cost more
• Shorewood man embraced outdoors
• Police Blotter: DUI arrests
• New faces for Minooka High board
• Bolingbrook High saying goodbye to veteran staffer
• Resident wants Wilmington to muzzle a dog
• Mayoral candidates take aim at city attractions
• Five seek three Minooka school board seats
• Seven on ballot in race for District One city council seat
• City attractions up for grabs?
• Tyree’s death an accident?
• Rebuilding bridges
• Local breweries to serve up frothy feast
• Brew distribution laws hinder charity beer sales
• Jobless picture improving?
• Kendall board to use e-mail to question bills
• 7 vie for school board
• Grundy picks lead attorney
• Village reviews memorial plans
• Board Opposes Foreclosure Law, Urges Residents to Contact Legislators
• Will County Board Issues Severe Weather Awareness Reminder
• Lockport police: Man solicits sex from 10-year-old
• Mother, son charged with growing cannabis at home
• Man guilty in deadly shooting outside Joliet grocery
• Poll: Local elections
• Lockport police: Man solicits sex from 10-year-oldw
• Braidwood mother and son charged with growing cannabis at home
• Man guilty in deadly shooting outside Joliet grocery story
• Quinn drops job for Morris Democrat
• Joliet candidates to answer questions at Monday forum
• Conservation planning controversial for Kendall
• Witnesses won’t testify in Ratcliffe murder trial
• Will Co. OKs $60 million in summer road projects
• Mihelich: Head-on approach needed for mayor's office
• Trio charged in copper-pipe theft in Joliet
• Garage burns in Joliet Township
• Forest preserve police: Ex-official sprayed chemicals to interfere with deer culling
• Romeoville man steals dead patient’s rings to sell
• Are you prepared for spring’s bad weather?
• Former Joliet Catholic priest again charged with sexual abuse
• THE SUMMER OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION
• Councilman’s challenger questions real estate dealings
• Witnesses won’t testify
• Volunteer shortage threatens kids’ sports
• Canal workers create boat launch for firefighters
• Developer has plan for big Lockport site
• Quinn drops job for Morris Democrat who backed tax
• A head-on approach
• Brophy's council opponents: Budget plan 'too little, too late'
• Ratcliffe murder witness tells jurors he saw it all
• Budget plan: ‘Too little too late’
• Police blotter: Bolingbrook officers seize drugs, $1,291 during traffic stop
• Oh, No You Didn’t: From shoplifting to shopping-cart-lifting
• Nuclear station to host community info night
• Witness: Shooter looked at me
• Valley View schools won’t hike costs
• Mokena: Road funds will run out in 2016
• Men claim to have gun while robbing Romeoville auto parts store
• Infant’s death is a mystery — for now
• Braidwood commissioner defends council after ego allegations
• Witnesses tell of attempts to save Joliet murder victim's life
• Joliet crowd rallies for workers’ rights
• Preservation commission's e-mail talk wasn't legal
• Car passenger shoots into air on Joliet street
• Herald-News and USF sponsor candidates forum
• Police: No signs of foul play in death of 3-month-old from Lockport Township
• Joliet woman charged after alleged knife attack
• 2010 Joliet murder trial under way
• Joliet group hosts forum on Tuesday
• CN and county lose in court
• Councilman proposes 10 percent solution to city budget woes
• Canoe chute still nameless
• Photo funnies: Do you have a hilarious caption for this photo?
• Crest Hill council salutes officer
• Just 2 left in search for new school chief
• Plainfield man back home after surviving quake
• Joliet council explains salary spikes
• Council candidates’ quarrel leads to battery charge
• Police seize kilo of heroin
• Yorkville vote divided on rejection OF KenCom plan
• Phone bill clinic could help slash your bills
• Joliet man gets probation after car chase
• Driver to be sentenced for fatal DUI apartment crash
• New boundaries for Plainfield schools?
• Kendall may ask state to ease path to more jobs
• Joliet woman has precious violin stolen from home
• March Madness at Minooka Intermediate
• Plainfield schools program allows dads to get involved
• Joliet to issue homebuying funds
• Romeoville fire displaces family
• Veterans will get their due
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• Shorewood to makeover intersection
• Seamstress was stitching at 98
• Training academy offers glimpse into Lockport’s public works
• Is Joliet’s payroll the taxpayers’ ticking time bomb?
• Document shredding events offered
• Shorewood OKs site plan changes for school
• Channahon board lauds Minooka High wrestling team
• Is Joliet’s payroll the taxpayers’ ticking time bomb?
• Dirty job for a good cause
• The eagles have landed
• Online retailers forced to collect sales tax
• Congressional Record
• Will’s mission gets national attention
• Rialto wants celeb lookalikes
• Nominations sought for Big Tree Contest
• CIO at Argonne focuses on security, ‘cloud’ management
• ‘It’s like an extension of my arm’
• ‘Ice Cream Truck Guy’ find success on YouTube
• An alternative to ComED?
• State wants shoppers to pay online sales tax
• Catherine Ann Velasco: Blog gives you insight on school board races
• Auto students revved up
• Joliet man dead after fall
• Minooka wrestling team honored for being 2nd in state
• Channahon murder defendants to get separate trials
• Judge agrees to sever murder trial
• Poll: Cut pay of city workers?
• Woman faces drug charges, accused of neglecting child
• Man guilty in 2008 shooting death of Joliet father
• Joliet Slammers’ first impression is a homer
• Future murky for historic Lockport bridge
• Weather observers sought
• Baby sitter charged with abuse dies
• Bust nets drugs, gun, arrests
• Train car catches fire at CN railyards
• Joliet Slammers’ huge party at Rialto introduces fans to new team’s logo, uniforms
• 159th Street businesses want a say on roadwork
• 2 get probation in parrot theft
• Historic bridge’s future murky
• Republicans say feds likely to cut funding locally
• State vs. district on kindergarten plan
• Candidate drops out of Channahon parks race
• Spending for the future
• Supervisor’s goal: Help seniors curb their property tax
• Democrats tab Morris lawyer for Grundy state’s attorney job
• New Lenox firefighters, police are going bald
• Marconi: Joliet’s difficulties nothing new
• Joliet baseball logo to be ‘edgy’
• Historic bridge crumbles
• Possession nine-tenths of arrest
• Morris police offer citiizen police academy
• Man struck in bar’s lot
• End of death penalty to affect Will County cases
• Woman accused of sexually abusing children
• Slammers owner eyes another minor-league team
• Towns still nixing KenCom cost pact
• Man had illegals working in Will County
• Minooka making strides despite economy
• Developer hopes smaller homes will sell in Shorewood
• Six campaigns will target Grundy driving violations
• Celebration weekend to be family-friendly
• Morris department honors patrol officer
• Joliet cancels city council meetings due to election
• Would-be mayor suing city
• Legal notices posted online only?
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Plainfield gives $288K to restore historic building
• Muggers beat Joliet victim
• Machine fire closes local factory for a short time
• Black contractors call for ordinance
• Cops seize 820 pounds of cannabis
• Innocent plea in abuse case
• Officers arrest three for allegedly robbing teens
• Romeoville names center to honor disability advocate
• Driver charged with DUI in fatal crash
• Joliet council meetings rescheduled
• Fish death at Rock Run Preserve are no mystery
• What’s cooking? Fundraiser for child advocacy center
• Morris man wins cash for nonprofit
• St. Pat’s hosts council candidate forum
• Plainfield schools need to adjust boundaries
• Joliet creates road-repair list
• Spokesman’s ‘Mayberry’ comment irks Plainfield parent
• Two killed in Sunday crash
• Report leads to pot bust
• Pasta night to be in Channahon
• Frankfort cites safety in ban of golf carts on village streets
• Man lived in God’s service
• Boost for Midwest manufacturing
• Pulse
• New Bolingbrook library has features for patrons of all ages
• police blotter
• For officer of the year, it’s all in a day’s work
• 45-year sentence for ice-cream vendor’s murder
• Romeoville OKs slate of improvements
• Plainfield preps for ninth Hometown Irish Parade
• Student earns full ride to college; other students honored
• Exhibit charts story of Underground Railroad in Will County
• Budget cuts could shutter Workforce Services
• 45-year sentence for ice-cream vendor’s murder
• Power Connection offers classes
• Lockport 7th-grader gets city official’s job
• Candidates’ forum set at St. Francis
• Residency woes after interview
• After 50 years, they’re together again
• Workforce Services awaits fate
• Early exit from Minooka will cost Clorox
• Snapshot: White deer roams local preserve
• Minooka can ticket trespassers to pond
• Joliet wants Smart votes
• You can save green and help the planet
• Tanning salons, clients resist ban of teens
• Active shooter training takes over high school
• Romeoville to put police on bicycles
• Senators: Stop carp from getting to lake
• Congressional Record
• Plainfield schools need to adjust boundaries for crowding
• Joliet man sentenced to 45 years for ice-cream vendor’s murder
• Police: Joliet search turns up $50K worth of drugs
• Voter guide to be mailed
• Lockport alderman breaks 110-meeting streak of no votes
• $12M deficit in Plainfield fund
• Time for Singleton statue?
• Survey says? Forest preserves popular
• Store clerk tied up in Romeoville robbery
• Men to be charged with burglaries in Will, Kendall and Grundy counties
• Gold’s Gym closes Joliet location with no notice
• Hatcher: Supreme court ruling won’t affect funeral bill
• Landfill pays Will County $3.6M
• Challenged by gifted child?
• New Lenox right site for a new outlet mall?
• City: Overweight semis shaking up Wilmington
• Mayor hopeful has new ideas for Joliet
• Beware: Police watching tracks
• Plainfield changes school-year schedule
• Good help is hard to find
• Cabin Fever to be Saturday in New Lenox
• Concussion fears can make your head spin
• Inmate to stay in county jail
• Walsh probes airport plans
• Seven candidates vie for LTHS board seats
• Kendall County officials OK KenCom cost sharing
• Poll: Agree with the Supreme Court OK of funeral protests?
• Mayor treats winning Richland hoops team to pizza
• Zoning OK’d for senior site
• Dealership’s giveaway funds local athletics
• New Lenox rebating property taxes
• Program to discuss medicinal prairie plants
• Gunfire damages glass door
• After 50 years, Elgin brothers together again
• Lockport woman’s camera captures bald eagles in action
• Mayor to hoops team: Title equals pizza
• Board tries to predict Will County’s needs
• IDOT to widen and pave Frankfort roadway
• Braidwood admits website woes
• Durbin supports science labs
• After 50 years, they’re together again
• Officers brave cold for Special Olympics
• CenterPoint trucks take wrong turns
• Cop cars collide, start fire
• Durbin slams GOP’s plan for cuts to Fermi, Argonne
• Facing $6.7 million deficit, Plainfield school board saves jobs
• IDOT To Brief Board On High-Speed Rail Project
• One taken to hospital after Crest Hill crash
• Minooka High names chief
• Gas prices rise, but will it last?
• Riley Fox’s family not rushing to give $100K to killer’s ex
• Walmart donates to Romeoville
• Minooka Grade board welcomes ex-member
• Braidwood candidate night set
• Morris to take over landfill’s maintenance
• Maury Wills coming to Joliet Slammers party
• Poll: The Oscars
• All-day kindergarten may come to Channahon
• Arrests made in burglaries
• Bowling benefit Sunday
• Financial Peace University offered in Joliet
• Attack on the middle class?
• Channahon looking out for its seniors
• A living example of faith
• Shorewood to send $12K to WESCOM
• City to vote on school land
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• Mayoral candidates address Joliet deficit
• Plainfield Board's tough choice: Save jobs or save money
• Easing an East Side rail woe
• Minority health to be discussed
• Lockport’s mayor for a day
• Shorewood mulls street fundraising
• Bill puts limits on funeral protesters
• Will County gets $27K for historic preservation work
• Bettering Boughton bump
• Troy schools have food allergy plan
• Fake girlfriend scams man out of $200K in Naperville
• Minooka seeking $45K in blizzard emergency funds
• Will County traffic stop turns up $100K worth of drugs
• Jordan Foundation back in Lockport house
• Arrest Warrants
• Poll: Happy with snowplowing?
• Channahon’s false alarms have police seeking fines
• VANDALS PAINT SWASTIKA
• Plainfield library seeks public input
• Valley View digs up snow-day pay info
• Residents give input on possible changes to local I-55 access
• County faces redistricting
• Locked up for 21 months, Peterson takes aim at people keeping him from his family
• Thanks Jordan going home
• Park board creates rules for comments
• Former Bear tackles concussion dangers
• Funding dries up for flooding study
• Joliet officer, 39, dies
• Developer to pay Shorewood $650K
• 307 city workers make $100K
• New Valley View leader shares vision
• Portion of Boughton Road to be rebuilt
• Spanish center to present awards during first fiesta
• Troy school board reviews ‘free’ lunch plan
• Joliet youth wins county spelling bee
• GOP voters elect Morris aldermen
• Joliet meeting to address minority health care
• Will County police seize $450K worth of heroin
• Joshua Arms seniors wait to go home after fatal fire
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Protesters gather to fight deer culling in preserves
• Grundy hunters heed cull of coyotes
• Riverfront group helms Plainfield Fest
• Poll: Should deer be killed?
• Community says goodbye to a special man
• Police: Plainfield man tried to hire teen for sex
• Plainfield police seize 16 pounds of cannabis, arrest three men
• Romeoville man charged with intent to deliver a controlled substance
• Warehouse workers say they’re owed money
• Church could begin building in spring
• Citizen Police Academy offered
• Cops have long wait at courthouse
• Crest Hill mayor touts new businesses in town
• Troy schools foundation is nonprofit
• Culver’s wants to add patio in New Lenox
• Advocates join forces to help local children
• Slammers logo party features Nancy Faust
• police blotter
• County to vote on sharing KenCom costs
• Was ethics committee nod ‘legal but inappropriate’?
• A close shave for a good cause
• Local health, safety expo March 1
• Cat rescued from house fire
• Scholarships available
• Mom went above and beyond for her kids
• Educators call for more early education funds
• Will County auditor creates accounting internship spot
• Plainfield schools refinance bonds
• Romeoville officials OK new Lewis U. buildings, parking
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• Meet Plainfield’s new top cop
• Census: Lockport just shy of hitting home-rule status
• enforcing lockport
• Will urges quick-take powers
• Michigan lawmaker pushes to close locks
• Chiropractor crooked?
• Mayoral candidate defends family, salary comments
• City, hotel sued after boy’s fall down elevator shaft
• Sustainability group sets month of green events
• Voting options for Will County election
• Board Celebrates Black History Month
• City, hotel sued after boy’s fall down elevator shaft
• Gardner-South Wilmington hosts referendum forum
• Benefit set for Sunday at VFW in Joliet
• Kendall, towns strike road agreement
• Presidents Day won’t affect trash pickup in Joliet
• Yorkville road plan set in motion
• Joliet museum to get $25,000 grant
• Elwood praises its blizzard response
• Lockport gets facelift during downturn
• Route 47 study on track
• Energy assistance funding available
• Route 47 study on track, despite lack of construction money
• County wants land for an intersection
• Trial under way in Joliet murder of an innocent bystander
• Lockport OKs trash contract
• Senate delays OK of Gordon’s new job
• Snow days cost schools, too
• Plainfield motel demolished
• 16 cited for tobacco sales to minors
• Teacher from Joliet guilty of battery
• $4.3M worth of drugs seized
• Joliet snow cost: $839K
• Moustis Appointed to Statewide Health Care Committee
• Stepdad accused in ‘brutal beating’
• Joliet mayoral candidate fueled by faith
• BGA to offer watchdog training
• Plainfield names interim top cop
• Boy’s mom testifies in Conner trial
• Familiar faces in race for Morris council
• Exelon puts up $10K for fishing tournament to benefit soldiers
• Obama, GOP steering onto budget collision course
• Poll: Fed money for PBS
• Homer Glen questions threat to home-rule status
• Joliet cop earns top honor
• Boards to weigh in on senior housing center
• Joliet kills lifetime insurance
• Census: Will Co. among fastest growing in state
• Tenant’s power is on but trouble isn’t over
• Ex-substitute pleads innocence in sex case
• Airport foes to meet
• Lockport addresses waste and water
• Cops find strangling suspect
• Lewis University picks chief of campus police
• Can you write a funny caption for this photo?
• Was Joliet man killed by ‘torture-like’ discipline?
• Yorkville eyes sales tax to pay sewer debt
• Joliet council: Cut our benefits
• Yorkville seeking boundary pact with Joliet
• Ready for anything? New Lenox is
• Cops: Drug buyer beaten, stripped
• NWS to train weather spotters in Wilmington
• Will clerk: No primary election here
• Funeral scheduled for beloved Joliet pastor
• Mom blames cop, not boyfriend, for son’s death
• Health experts: Flu season peaking now
• New Minooka fire headquarters shine during blizzard
• Minooka crime down, but traffic citations up
• A message of hope and love
• Fashion show at Al’s
• Information wanted on burglary
• Channahon honors businesses, citizens
• police blotter
• Dinner, auction to benefit pantry
• Girls make cookies to help 4-year-old in battle with cancer
• Joliet woman loved the Packers, politics
• Village planning for future
• Edward Hospital seeks therapy dogs
• Pulse
• ‘Pack the House’ for Special Olympics
• Shorewood pays off road construction
• Alderman rebukes rehashed story
• Will hopes blizzard costs earn FEMA reimbursement
• Joliet native Juliet King ‘left a legacy of love’
• Joliet leaders ‘must ante up’
• Fire marshal: 2nd elevator out of service
• Turning up the heat
• Winter games
• Lane Bryant investigation cool, not cold
• Argonne eyeing supercomputer title
• Joliet seeks logos for SMART Policing contest
• Braidwood warned about deer culling
• VFW honors local police and firefighters
• Time to extend Route 47?
• Food pantry helping hundreds
• A man of peace and purpose
• Lockport part of Lincoln-linked try to break world record
• Crest Hill brainstorms storm reaction
• Thieves strike at Metra lot
• Two finalists named for assistant judge position
• Beloved pastor dies
• Rental dispute has Joliet family living without electricity
• Elevator still out of service
• Cops: Joliet man drunk in Interstate 55 pile-up
• Three new restaurants planned in Bolingbrook
• Culled deer to be tested
• Underground Railroad exhibit to open
• $1 million lottery winner a local sale
• Lockport cops to use Tasers
• Blizzard sparks rescue improvements
• Back to future for Kendall voting
• Fighting blaze in the cold
• Joliet expo at the mall starts Friday
• Homer Glen board OKs final trail path
• Bus brouhaha: Cops say 3 teens started ruckus
• Cabinetry shop burns
• Yorkville settles lawsuit over alleged landfill siting scheme
• Dog killed in Bolingbrook house fire
• Lincoln and Civil War artifacts on display in Frankfort
• Owner: Slammers food will be a hit
• Bus brouhaha
• Casinos lose again in tax fight
• Deer culling to start in forest preserves
• Women's group helping children at Daybreak Shelter
• ComEd seeks rate hike with legislation
• Parents to Drauden Point: Plow sidewalks for kids’ sake
• County hoping state funds come soon
• Plainfield police chief to step down
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• Parents tell Drauden Point School: Plow your sidewalks for kids’ sake
• New rules for Minooka signs
• Yorkville aldermen add time for public comments
• Entries due for community policing logo
• Puppy Bowl awards hungry competitors
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Roller derby team recruiting Fox Valley women
• Briefs: Minooka Legion hosts Valentine’s Day event
• Baseball committee to meet with Joliet Slammers
• 16 inches of snow, 2 inches of sewage
• Expect cold snap before thaw
• Subdivision residents look to keep trespassers off pond
• Kendall inmate’s escape attempt ends in ceiling
• Kendall pantry to hold first-ever fundraiser
• New name for Joliet’s baseball team
• Want a piece of Minooka High history?
• Planning a brighter future
• Public meeting on new I-55 interchanges
• Diamond, LCD TV among raffle items
• Special events planned in Southwest communities
• Police blotter for Southwest Weekly communities
• Minooka High offers dance for senior citizens
• Southwest-area club schedule meetings
• Kris Stadalsky: Communities all pitch in during blizzard
• Priest acts as exorcist for Joliet Diocese
• What goes down should post certificate up?
• Need money for heat?
• Elwood gearhead loved cars, racing
• Minooka intersection too busy for tag days?
• Cross traveling office hours
• Diageo in line for tax abatement?
• Plainfield schools using multi-age classrooms
• Warm rescue for stranded motorists
• Lockport mayor pleased with local storm response
• 28 pounds of cannabis seized
• Valentine’s Day dance in Minooka
• Joliet and state to split cost of fence for Rt. 59 houses
• Joliet to plow blocked alleys
• Evaluations again delay sentencing for Mokena teen
• Health care groups consider merging
• Joliet residents steamed when city won’t plow alleys
• Alcohol enforcement nets two arrests
• Cheri Drick to be paroled next week
• Forest officials to seek more money?
• Mail delivery returning to normal
• Firefighters heed call of wintry weather
• Blizzard tees off on golf dome
• Blizzard delays murder hearing
• Free tax help for the needy
• Sheriff wants to build on former arsenal land
• Regular service on 7 Metra lines; modifications on 4 others
• Will Co. socked by one of biggest snows on record
• Blizzard commute like ‘nuclear winter’ for workers
• Joliet roads should be ready for drivers
• Stranded motorists keep police and firefighters busy
• Joliet cops juggle storm, shooting, car hit by train
• Joliet-area residents dig their way out from snow
• No school Thursday for many Joliet-area districts
• Metra halts services on five lines
• Poetry artist to perform at USF
• Volunteers head Wilmington emergency effort
• Frankfort woman goes into labor during worst of blizzard
• Will County emergency responders ready to work
• Blizzard sends pieces of Wrigley Field roof flying
• Area braces for 2 feet of snow
• Sheriff wants to build on former arsenal land
• Plainfield museum to reopen
• Communities put emergency plans in place
• Transport center plan chugs along despite funding
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• With two snowstorms predicted, Will County plows ready
• Tighter rental rules urged
• Poll: How bad will the storm be?
• Fundraiser for Forest Preserve’s Rosie
• Winning Lotto ticket sold in Joliet
• Guilty verdict in 2009 slaying
• Possible hate crime?
• County deer culling to begin next week
• Blizzard watch in effect, could drop 18 inches of snow in city
• Residents evacuated after Daybreak fire
• Small-business workshop to be Thursday
• Man loved family, country
• Kris Stadalsky: MCHS event the “ticket” to beat winter blues
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• Scholarships for Minooka grads
• Six new businesses coming to Mokena
• Village preparing for roadwork
• JT raffles off the best seats in the house
• Board members tour Elgin landfill
• Groundhog deja vu?
• New energy technology comes from local source
• Plainfield church offering wild game dinner
• Same-sex civil unions has Rockdale couple rushing to wed
• Community center needs food donations
• Riverfront plans still flowing
• Chamber to award leadership
• Will County Democrats laud courageous leaders
• Out with the old
• Walsh to head metro counties
• Fed specialist: Economy promising
• Focusing on parish schools
• Deal for driveways as part of resurfacing work
• Joliet closes Chicago Street for demolition
• Diageo gets school tax deal
• Female students attend leadership conference in Joliet
• Police: 54-year-old sexually abused local teen
• Showing evil the door
• South Elgin Landfill Power Plant Is Sneak Peek For Will County
• Waubonsie teacher had sought to be aboard Challenger flight
• Tuskegee Airmen to visit USF
• Contractor with clout gets two-year sentence
• Did Peterson pressure son on financial decision?
• Court bans Joliet man from preparing taxes
• Homer Glen project continues to evolve
• Joliet Board Member Will Continue To Advocate For Increased Federal Funding For Will County
• Woman pulled from Joliet fire dies
• Four layoffs might only save Plainfield schools $50K
• More than 1,000 try for 50 union jobs in Joliet
• Court tosses $31B program
• Lincoln and Civil War artifacts to go on display
• Teacher accused in student sex case pleads not guilty
• Shooter takes the stand
• Sentencing delayed for Mokena teen who killed sister
• Hunters lose deer to health inspection
• Alleged murderer claims self-defense
• Braidwood will spend money to make money
• Senior tenants unable to return to high rise
• Officials’ free lifetime health benefits under fire
• Plainfield schools facing federal funds dilemma
• Sentencing delayed for Mokena teen who killed sister
• It’s customer’s job to ensure alarms work
• Hide stash before calling police
• Lockport Street closure planned
• Historic Route 66 properties up for sale
• Photo Funnies
• City officials’ free lifetime health benefits under fire
• Senior high rise tenants still unable to return to residence
• Will County sheriff goes online
• Frankfort board: Sign rule now less restrictive
• Joliet West grad makes a difference
• Two high-speeders, 3rd driver arrested
• Boy, 2, hurt in fall down elevator shaft
• Crews begin demolition of White Store
• Joliet man charged with intent to deliver cannabis
• Plainfield riverfront plans to be discussed
• Haz-Mat crews clean up after trucks, train collide
• Joliet senior home being evacuated after morning fire
• Driver didn’t tell police he drank
• SMART entries wanted for police logo contest
• New Lenox giving French makeover to its market
• Kendall to pay up to $64K for KenCom buildout plans
• Joliet squads collide responding to shooting
• Boy, 2, hurt in fall down elevator shaft
• Lockport plans mass reading of Lincoln speech
• Schools want to slash risk of food allergens
• Special liquor license for forest preserve
• Southwest police news
• Breakfast for Troy students?
• White Store has connection to WWII
• Romeoville approves redevelopment plan
• Mokena ‘angels’ changing world
• Senior center offers Valentine Dance
• Court: Braidwood cops abused power
• Kendall eases development
• Joliet deli takes pride in Chicago Bears roots
• Fraud charges ‘shock’ friends
• Want your novel published?
• Morris aldermen cut pay
• Lifelong Beecher Resident Pledges To Work In Bipartisan Fashion
• blocking out bullies
• New turn restrictions for Route 59 work
• Elwood: Cops must retire at 65
• Yorkville to share cost to repair ‘worst bridge’
• Sub-zero Arctic blast gives area the chills
• Shorewood mayors place food bet on Bears-Packers game
• Alleged Joliet fraudster had 10-15 area clients
• Sub-zero Arctic blast gives area the chills
• Kendall crafting liquor license for forest preserve
• Channahon to offer police academy
• Shorewood mayors place food bet on game
• Grieving family reaches out to forgive
• Historic building’s demolition delayed
• State to seek death for Stateville murder
• Brace yourself: The cold is coming
• Alleged murderer claims self-defense
• Nature center to re-create Underground Railroad
• 2nd role for Kaupas
• Tax hike vote traded for board seat?
• Joliet man charged in $3.5 million fraud
• Prosecutor in search of a few good cooks
• Grundy ended year in the black
• New Lenox to offer cheaper electricity
• Joliet bridge will stay open as work resumes
• Kendall officials study the cost of KenCom
• Vaughn jacket to go to Arizona lab
• Plainfield North teacher resigns after sex-abuse arrest
• Pre-election arguing among councilmen?
• Trial delayed in fatal DUI case
• Busing change to save some Plainfield school jobs
• Joliet kids play hockey on homemade rink
• Vaughn jacket to go to Arizona lab
• Public hearing for Joliet transportation center
• Photo funnies
• CN funds put to work
• Guilt-free chocolate at Shorewood benefit?
• Show brings the outdoors in
• Group marks MLK holiday by helping others
• Police blotter
• No primary election in Will County
• Police seize $1M in pot in tollway bust
• Plainfield schools may vote on deficit reduction plan
• Plainfield man transforms into the ultimate Bears superfan
• Gambling expansion still up for grabs
• Homer Glen man takes home Emmys
• Psychiatric report delayed
• Lockport honors couple as volunteers of the year
• Two firemen hurt in blaze
• District focusing on minority hirings
• MorningStar to hold open house
• Morris crashes are down
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• Improvement project continues on the Lockport Lock and Dam
• Local police roundup
• Dial-a-Ride program OK’d
• New river gauge on DuPage River
• Schools consider triple-tier busing
• Will County preserve to get improvements
• Yorkville puts sales tax increase on ballot
• will the bills get paid?
• Channahon readies to celebrate 50 years
• Shorewood to restructure village’s Finance Committee
• Heroes West hosting event to help children’s center
• Teacher saves student
• Mokena school board member: Close the intermediate facility
• Braidwood tables store’s parking plan
• Joliet’s Wright store closing after 2 months
• Library’s parking plans irk resident
• Now you see the store, now you don’t
• Land Use Department honors two
• Joliet man takes leap from attic to escape fire
• Kevin Fox: End death penalty
• His signature lands him in jail
• Shorewood lets wine shop deal in speciality liquors
• His signature lands him in jail
• Back in U.S., man jailed on eavesdropping charge
• Search is on for new superintendents
• You already owe thanks to new tax hike
• Morales to stay on Joliet ballot
• MorningStar Mission to hold open house
• Doctors call Giffords’ recovery a miracle
• St. Patrick’s Day queen, parade entries sought
• Tinley Park woman jumps to her death along I-80
• Joliet man appears in court on drug charge
• Woman jumps to death on I-80 in Will County
• Yorkville property taxes to rise
• New Lenox police to offer emergency response class
• Woman jumps onto I-80 in Will County
• Tax hike approval doesn’t mean bills will be paid yet
• New name for Joliet’s baseball team
• Yorkville declines abatement; property tax will increase
• NIU to help Minooka’s strategic plan
• County reaps benefits of Sunny Hill upgrades
• Abduction attempt reported in Mokena
• Parolee suspected in shooting
• Exelon: Power plant work is proactive, not reactive
• New fire station remembers the heroes of 9/11
• TAX BILL HIKES CONFUSION, TOO
• Teaching gifted students to be topic
• Joliet park commissioner off of ballot
• Herald-News to become six days a week
• Alger named publisher of Sun-Times Media West
• Man arrested on suspended license charge
• Despair, uncertainty months after killing of Lockport man
• Romeoville trustee loses cancer battle
• Will County to draw new board districts
• Can you create a funny caption for this dog picture?
• Forest Park banquet Jan. 29
• Quick news
• Church, city lose a leader in Warren Dorris Sr.
• Decision delayed on firing of Drew Peterson’s son
• Losing weight? Matteson woman’s got it covered
• Pulse
• Guilty plea in hit-and-run
• New law requires pet shops, shelters to give backgrounds
• Grundy steps up traffic enforcement
• Input wanted on Lockport trash
• Romeoville police, fire pensions OK
• Board Set To Redraw Map, Establishes Bipartisan Committee
• Joliet water meter replacement to start
• At peace with family
• Lockport Walmart earns awards in 2010
• Wilmington eyes stronger animal control ordinance
• Families start over after losing homes
• Benefit set for Joliet man
• County exec. accepts award
• More ‘moooola’ for seniors
• Ward 4 alderman returns after October fall
• Bremen teacher accused of seeking sex with students
• Bill ‘empowers’ Will County executive?
• Judge delays landlord’s lawsuit
• Lockport Twp. body ID’ed
• Man guilty in DUI crash that killed sleeping woman
• Drug court’s proud alumna
• Rachel’s Challenge program to be offered
• At least 18 crashes near I-57 and I-80 exchange
• Party death ruled homicide
• Tollway raises speed limit on I-355
• Plainfield police make arrests
• At least 18 crashes near I-57 and I-80 exchange
• More gaming on the way?
• County clerk preparing for civil unions
• New additions at treasurer’s office
• Two brothers land in jail minutes apart
• Minooka aims for bridge project funds
• Bolingbrook update: Second-place Mega Millions ticket sold in Bolingbrook
• Pond death ruled accidental
• Coroner: Pond drowning victim was drunk
• Prosecutors target oil-spill companies
• Plainfield police/fire academy to start
• Mayor: I’ll make sure towns get their share
• Green Christmas: Recycle trash
• Village president ballot boasts a lot of experience
• Departing is sweet sorrow: Local soldiers head to Iraq
• Mass honors woman, heritage
• Building options for cramped county
• New Joliet rule allows all-ages nightclub
• Jan. 1’s speed law already being used
• Valley View expands FANS program
• Cold warning through Sunday
• Minooka home stimulus program extended
• Joliet council OKs cost of repairing well
• Yorkville puts bike trail referendum on ballot
• Can you write a funny caption for this photo?
• Audubon Society to meet
• Woman reportedly stabs rival, is booked into jail
• Body believed to be mom missing since Dec. 5 crash
• Incumbents can stay on Valley View ballot
• Joliet mandatory sidewalk shoveling law not imminent
• Police deny claim nude pictures were taken
• Music to their ears
• Body believed to be missing LaSalle Co. mom
• Vietnam vet getting word out on Agent Orange issues
• Community resource fair to be Jan. 18
• All aboard on CN deal, but tracks still bumpy
• Trash carts still raising ire
• Forum for Plainfield schools budget
• Former farmer loved nature, animals
• Joliet hospital adding doctors
• Siren testing to be Tuesday
• Off-duty Elmhurst officer killed in Homer Glen crash
• Mihelich defends Buell Ave. residency for mayoral run
• Braidwood OKs new plant contract
• Yorkville mayor wants to add 1 percent city sales tax
• Career Cafes now here for job seekers
• Taking a stand against FAS
• New Year’s Eve parties not just for adults anymore
• Christmas SOS answered for foster kids
• Provena St. Joe donates to New Lenox Fire District
• Year after alleged DUI death, lawsuit and charges
• Suit: Cops took nude photos of DUI crash victim
• Center to offer scholarships
• Man abuses woman at bar
• Worker crushed under 3 tons of granite slabs
• Poll: New Year's celebrations
• Rescued dog is living the good life again
• Paving way for all-ages club
• Family dog chews toes off spina bifida patient
• Suspected pot dealer arrested in Naperville
• Surveys look into alcohol sales to minors
• Probation in murder of man whose dog urinated on lawn
• Mokena parks director retires
• ‘Honeybee’ 911 tape released
• Poll: College bowl games
• deck in here and re to and here and
• Arrest made in 2009 murder
• LW grad dies after Christmas Eve fall
• Kendall names new commander
• Kendall residents rally for shelter pets
• New garbage carts are coming
• Explosion at Wilmington plant threatens water
• Rail gates fail
• Residents, businesses asked to shovel their sidewalks
• Explosion threatens water
• Help paying utility bills
• Will County Officials and Canadian National fine
• Challenge filed against Joliet candidate
• Joliet extends cold warning
• Unusual moneymaker for Kendall: Unused jail cells
• Minooka woman with ALS lived life to fullest
• Toy drive delivers hope and joy
• Poll: Rialto Square Theatre
• Can you think of a funny caption for this picture?
• Police impound car, find bullets
• Joliet cold warning in effect through today
• Romeoville recycling hours change
• Firefighters brave icy waters for winter rescue training
• No automated calls as Minooka district moves to VoIP service
• Kendall sets committees despite controversy
• Web Poll: Will you shop for end-of-the-year bargains?
• Kendall hopes to whittle away at deficit
• GOP sweeps in Will District 3
• Laraway to consider school site purchase
• News from area classrooms
• Web Poll: Did you watch the Bears game?
• Farewell to White Store
• Following fire code can save lives and property
• Firm: Minooka High must cut expenses before 2016
• Ill. woman climb highest peak on every continent
• Koeppel likely out for Iowa opener
• More Portugal: firefighters battling 26 forest blazes
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• ‘Mr. T’ gave back with hands and heart
• Nature center to close on Sundays
• Pre-Christmas thefts keep police busy
• Troy students send PEACE packages to military overseas
• Johnson to finish Hultgren’s term
• Moving closer to high-speed rail system
• Minooka grade schools to honor tax commitment
• Educational events will address Medicare queries
• After 25 years on Joliet police department, commander to retire
• Creekside teacher helps neediest families stay fed
• If new school is built, some Lockport students can choose their campus
• IKEA employees get present: New bikes
• Minooka High math changes aim to prep students for college
• Kendall towns fight 911 plan
• Quinn grants 34 clemency petitions, denies 51 others
• Heating help still available
• Keep fire hydrants clear
• ’Tis the season to help those in need
• Two named to circuit bench
• State sending FAA third airport report
• Two Lemont soldiers home for the holidays
• Blessed with family
• USF’s board greets new chief, trustees
• New Lenox drops CN lawsuit
• Progress on ‘unsafe’ historic homes?
• Alleys a hurdle for trash plan
• Salvation Army donations down
• Web Poll: Should George Ryan be freed from prison?
• Hollywood Casino Joliet debuts
• Maybe it was the Grinch
• Police seize cocaine
• Environmental Elvis to perform
• Santa’s littlest elf
• HELP KEEP THE WREATHS RED
• A Christmas rescue for Prancer?
• Joliet man shot to death in car
• Canadian National didn’t report blocked crossings
• Where your tax dollars go
• Salvation Army donations down
• Prosecutors seek jail time in dog-lawn murder
• Father charged: Police wonder why son, 12, was shot
• Joliet council considering all-ages club for downtown
• Day care can stay, but it must shrink
• Seven seek two JJC board seats
• Quarry gets OK to expand
• Prison for Will County senior?
• Joliet city offices holiday closings
• Prosecutors want prison time in University Park murder case
• Plainfield board incumbent opts out of April race
• Can an all-ages club work in Joliet?
• Prosecutors want prison time in University Park murder case
• DuPage River Trail bridge installed
• Prosecutors want prison time in University Park murder case
• Can you think of a funny caption for this picture?
• Joliet mayor and council ballots busy
• Big decisions for Joliet council
• Cops: Joliet father shoots 12-year-old son
• Holidays won’t affect Joliet trash pickup
• Cops: Joliet father shoots 12-year-old son
• White Christmas looks likely this year
• Preparation is key for winter woes
• SNAPSHOT WINTER GALLERY
• Joliet task force recovers property from suspects
• County staff steps up to give
• City to vote on bigger quarry
• Web Poll: Have you ever been robbed?
• Lions donate $15K for holiday meals in 2010
• Shorewood sales tax to increase on July 1
• Waste Management tries to ease alley-to-curb move
• ‘Gentle giant’ was full of knowledge
• Crime Stoppers to take text messages, too
• The lull before the storm
• Eateries seek parking relief
• Renters find out their homes are in foreclosure
• Web Poll: Should landlords be required to disclose foreclosures?
• Third-airport land’s residents live in limbo
• The gift of dignity, support
• JPD vets appointed to Elwood cop jobs
• Police concerned about K2
• FISH pantries are bare amid greatest need
• Recycled laptop a fitting, welcome prize
• Radio Disney brings its road show to Plainfield school
• Salmonella outbreak linked to Will Co. restaurants
• Salmonella outbreak
• A place for dollar stores, too
• Moustis charges dismissed
• Rehab staffers are on the run
• TINY DANCERS
• Shorewood residents get 2009 tax rate for 2010
• Grundy takes offers on old county home
• Man imprisoned for marijuana found under squash
• Arrest warrants in Will County
• Welcome to the new Herald-News website
• Firefighters honored for campaign
• Joliet police investigate 2 stabbings
• Is Riley Fox’s accused killer sane?
• Poll: Did you go to a garage or yard sale this summer?
• Pipeline in Romeoville leaking oil
• Spill keeps students from getting to school
• Republican challenger: Economy is top priority
• Halvorson’s eye on local veterans
• Woman with nude pics on iPhone charged
• Gas main break closes Plainfield street
• L-Way C. balance tops Stagg
• Report: Romeoville oil leak plugged
• Empress Casino preps for fresh start
• Long-time Joliet businessman dies
• Boil order for Ingalls Park
• Cold shelters open
• Fostering new sanctuaries
• Give us your snappy caption
• Stewart To Serve On National Association Of County Officials Committee
• Give us your snappy caption
• Local doctors hit surgery milestone
• SOMETHING EXTRA
• G&W Electric bringing expanded operations to Bolingbrook
• Mokena schools aren’t cutting yet
• Morris decreases tax levy
• Yorkville keeps amusement tax despite attempts to repeal it
• Firefighters hindered by no hydrants
• Train service resumes after Romeoville oil spill
• Honeybee suspect targeted prostitute?
• Train service resumes after Romeoville oil spill
• No hydrants to help firefighters do job
• Sisters charged in home invasion
• Steger Rd. work OK’d
• Multiple departments fight New Lenox blaze
• BHS seeks safer teen driving
• Forest preserve VP’s plan: dogs and health
• Wheatland Township talks funds, weather
• Mayor: New Lenox won’t relax housing standards
• Group seeks grant to build recreation center
• Student’s killing described as ‘crime of opportunity’
• Plainfield schools chief unveils $7.6 million in cuts
• Plainfield schools chief unveils $7.6M in budget cuts
• Plainfield school service dog is head of class
• Joliet issues cold warning
• Joliet candidates for mayor, council file early
• Man found guilty of murder
• More tests on Vaughn coat
• News briefs
• Joliet hosts first Frontier League game on May 19
• Metra: Cold snap might cause delays
• County unions to get step raises
• Santa’s Police on patrol in Joliet
• Sunny Hill residents using Skype
• Guilty verdict in beating
• Vote for your favorite Christmas tree
• Lockport takes aim at drunken and drugged driving in the city
• Majority rules in Will County
• ‘Mr. Fix-It’ was ready to help
• Romeoville trustees OK 2010 tax levy rate
• Kaupas: No nepotism in spokesman’s hire
• Rezin to fill Dahl’s senate seat
• Change to Joliet garbage service irks residents
• Minooka opts against alternative electricity
• Vacating road helps assist airport security
• Mega Sports to double its retail space
• Study: Channahon needs to adapt to post-bubble world
• Health department bonuses draw fire in tough economy
• Kendall names new chiefof emergency management
• Crest Hill to offer electric referendum
• New driver hits house
• Filing set for Joliet mayor, council and regional school board
• Church members give Joliet students a gift of learning
• Jackson urges action on Peotone airport
• Plainfield teen loses three fingers to snowblower
• Firefighters douse persistent house fire twice
• Deal made for one accused in Channahon murder case
• Lockport unveils business development program
• Park district wants grant money, too
• How can city, state spend for transit?
• Homer district school thrives during first year
• Prosecutors lauded for narcotics work
• Chamber honors local businesses, people
• Plainfield sidewalk repairs to start
• Woman killed in crash in Seneca
• District fails AYP despite high scores
• Man claims to be a cop
• Crest Hill Eagle store burns
• Small victories for Petersons
• Yorkville bike trail grant may affect referendum
• Lockport voters have referendum options
• Joliet West offers math for parents
• 6-year-old boy is Bolingbrook father’s first responder
• Firefighters and toys make for happy kids
• New Joliet policy aims to assist minority contractors
• Joliet man convicted of sex assault
• A reprieve for inmates’ underwear
• Father’s first responder
• Channahon considers raising property tax
• Bonus for health workers causes stir in Kendall
• Kendall names new emergency management chief
• Yard waste pickup ends Friday in Joliet
• Bolingbrook police arrest 4 in drug deal
• Joliet garbage plan meets resistance in the back alleys
• Bank collecting gifts for mission
• Wreath-laying set for Abe Lincoln
• Like helping local seniors? Share the Love on Facebook
• Hollywood passes on shooting in Yorkville
• Bat maker sued after injury
• Club makes appeal for Toys for Tots drive
• A ‘tough’ future for Joliet?
• College financial aid workshop set
• No restaurant at old jail building
• Board Reorganizes, Re-Elects Moustis As Chairman
• Hart Joins Board Representing District 3
• Argoudelis Joins Board Representing District 5
• Web Poll: Has the cold weather prevented you from decorating ?
• Nicor has a buyer?
• Warming shelters announced
• Santa comes to town
• Sycamore company recalls 72K cans of chicken salad products
• Oswego hold the line on tax levy
• 111th Street work begins Friday
• Pulse: Steel City honchos have Joliet ties
• Fuel spill closes inbound Stevenson
• Water rates rise for some businesses
• Food pantry now open
• Recycle holiday lightsat centers in county
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• Staying safe when snow is on the ground
• Fire district issues holiday safety tips
• ‘Ice Road Truckers’ star signs books in Joliet
• Parents, staff work to keep St. Pat’s alive
• Silver Cross Hospital welcomes new doctors
• Asian Carp ruling: Chicago locks can stay open
• Santa Bus to bring cheer to local seniors
• Donations, volunteers needed
• Fun side of learning Chinese
• Cubs great leaves behind many legacies
• Ron Santofor hallof fame? fans in joliet respond
• Web Poll: Office Christmas party
• Plainfield school budget cuts to be discussed
• JackHammers deal ‘imminent’; ballgames expected at Silver Cross
• Fire damages Shorewood pizza parlor
• Fake health inspectors prey on local eateries
• Kendall OKs 2011 budget with $648,000 deficit
• Quinn to keep temporary jobs program going
• State Senator Dahl resigns
• State Senator Dahl resigns
• Joliet extends cart request deadline
• Mokena teen admits killing sister
• Lockport OKs water, sewer rate hike
• Former Empress Casino to feature new sports bar
• Council mulls Rialto, waterpark support
• Childerguild honors Danielson, Rogina
• Christmas festivities set for Braidwood
• Holiday events in New Lenox
• Kendall OKs 2011 budget with $648,000 deficit
• Same-sex couple excited about recognition
• Ash borer traps come up empty in city’s trees
• Joliet backs mom’s plea for Route 53 lighting
• Police: Poodle on the lam
• Shots fired near Joliet Central High School
• Poll: Ready for winter?
• Plainfield roadwork a success in 2010
• 40-year-old enlists in the Army
• Elwood chief’s contract not renewed
• Big brains raise funds for charity
• Shorewood hopes to pass levy
• State Senate OKs civil unions
• Shots fired near Joliet high school
• Minooka High School lowers levy rate
• 'There's no end to what you can learn'
• Don’t let online shopping scams ruin holiday cheer
• Can you come up with a funny caption?
• Fundraisers: Student Food Drive and play
• Don’t let scams ruin holiday cheer
• Even partridges affected by inflation
• Poll: Do you agree the JackHammers should have a new name?
• Shorewood to host first tree-lighting ceremony
• Man gets taste of hot dog vendor’s mercy
• Ominous or helpful: The good and bad of bats
• JackHammers get new owner
• Braidwood business owners say traffic lights are hurting business
• Company fined for safety hazards in New Lenox
• Downtown Joliet property taxes to rise 21 percent
• JackHammers get new owner
• Shorewood to host first tree-lighting ceremony
• Lockport’s Christmas festival opens
• Daily poll: Online shopping
• GOP rally bus stops in Valley
• Nursing home goes high-tech
• Lockport’s grand hall of Christmas trees
• Joliet teen sustains ‘major injuries’ in crash
• Are ponds near nuclear plant disappearing?
• Poll: Living near nuclear plants
• Police Blotter: Man arrested on weapons charge
• Dresden Unit 3 is back online
• Joliet lights up with holiday parade
• Among those who deserve our thanks
• Traffic stop leads cops to pot stashed in car
• Briefs: Shorewood hosts first tree-lighting
• Yorkville mayor treated for breast cancer
• 95-year-old fullfills wish, gets back on motorcycle
• Mission feeds area’s less fortunate on Thanksgiving
• No freezing rain, but two crashes
• Poll: Holiday decorating
• Contain the ugly holiday shopper within
• Mission gives hope for holidays
• Homer Glen: No advance notice for Tea party rally
• Gov. Quinn approves 20, denies 48 clemency petitions
• Yorkville family enjoys this ‘Feud’
• Joliet welcomes the holidays with Friday festival
• JTHS buys building to house district’s buses
• Diabetic nurse helps patients with same disease
• Poll: Early Friday bargain shopping
• Joliet welcomes the holidays with Friday festival
• Joliet congregation finds strength in each other while rebuilding
• City: Frontier League will take new Joliet baseball team
• Joliet JackHammers having money troubles
• Poll: Thanksgiving dinner
• Dryer fire quickly extinguished
• Do you have a funny caption for this TSA photo?
• Monday’s storms deal a crushing blow
• Poll: Thanksgiving dinner
• Fryer fire closes Crest Hill Burger King
• KenCom OKs cost-sharing
• Another day of giving
• Paid holiday vacation rescinded
• Yorkville restaurant wants to add OTB
• Inappropriate e-mails play part in Kendall prosecutor’s office shuffle
• Kendall board OKs ‘urban’ chickens
• Kendall County budget looks better
• JackHammers plot thickens with new pitch
• Benefit for Plainfield South Band
• Tree fest brightens the Rialto
• Autumn deluge
• Long brothers enjoyed golden years together
• Kendall might ask unions for concessions
• Operation Christmas drive under way
• Healing the scars of war
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• Lockport celebrations set
• Enbridge Energy donates $75,000 to Romeoville
• Poll: Should officials be accountable for social network posts?
• Tour offers glimpse of local history
• Operation Christmas drive under way
• Romeoville is losing veteran police chief
• Board Passes Balanced 2011 Budget
• Is Joliet driving away revenue from its downtown?
• Fans swarm to latest Potter release
• Police report: Man arrested on drug, traffic charges
• Kustok pleads innocent
• Benefit for Caamano children
• Free Christmas tree: 40-foot evergreen up for grabs
• Channahon keeping mansions whole, for now
• Wilmington city council honors high school athletes
• Yorkville ushers in most wonderful time of the year
• Armed robbery suspect arrested, second at large
• Joliet man charged for starving his dogs
• Crest Hill’s attorney retires after 39 years
• Poll: Thanksgiving Day shopping
• Benefit Friday for leukemia victim
• Police report pair takes bicyclist’s alcohol in Joliet
• Man surrenders after standoff in Joliet
• Web Poll: Will you travel for Thanksgiving?
• Bar gets liquor license despite concerns
• Joliet listing vacant homes
• Fate of condemned sites remain in limbo
• Elwood gets ready for holidays
• Business Calendar
• Rain barrel discounts available
• Door-to-door bus service helps locals traverse area
• Kendall shelter overwhelmed with unwanted animals
• Committee urges city control of rentals
• Gourd ‘grazed’ in shooting
• A one-way ticket to jail
• Event to benefit Special Olympics
• Joliet church a rat? Union says yes
• Locals to compete on ‘Family Feud’
• Joliet church a rat? Union says yes
• Poll: Airport body scanners
• Local family to test its mettle on ‘Family Feud’
• Yorkville planners open gate for OTB proposal
• ‘Harsh reality’
• Outgoing board member lauded
• Fire hits Crest Hill furniture store
• Vigils held nationwide as Andrea Will’s killer goes free
• Jailed woman loses church appeal
• Final frontier for JackHammers?
• Bolingbrook man arrested for DUI
• Joliet OKs building long-debated fire station
• Traffic stop nets burglary arrest
• Joliet landmarks world’s first Dairy Queen store
• Poll: Employee perks
• Sunny Hill wins first in state contest
• Do you have a funny caption for this photo?
• Fun on a fall day in Yorkville
• Fire station debate still hot
• Web Poll: Will you spend less on Christmas compared to 2009?
• Romeoville open house tonight
• Bail $1M after woman killed while sleeping
• Ex-Bears delight fans at Heroes West
• Joliet police add stun guns to tools
• Homer Glen may tighten tree preservation rules
• Shorewood to issue tax bonds
• Braidwood finance director offers resignation
• Local kidney recipient has much to be thankful for
• Pulse: McGuire family rumor spreading
• Joliet mulls new rental rules
• Board Set To Give Taxpayers Break In 2011 Budget
• Health care costs to rise for Joliet
• City council to vote on fire station plans
• Outgoing Grundy board members bid farewell
• Merger to add strength to Chambers of Commerce
• Fermilab offers buyouts, hopes to cut 50 workers
• Poll: Should taping your own calls be legal?
• Channahon: What do you want?
• Flint Hills prairie fire to restore native plants
• Church, former pastor sued over sex abuse of young girl
• State gambling revenue lowest in 10 years
• Is council pacifying voters?
• Woman sues mom’s killer
• Joliet explaining garbage changes
• Joliet mulls new rental rules
• Joliet mulls new rental rules
• Yorkville’s holiday night will go ahead on Nov. 19
• Honor for our veterans
• Soldier’s funeral route set
• Rialto projects await state funds
• Romeoville to honor veterans Thursday
• Yorkville planners open up gate for OTB proposal
• Do you have a funny caption for this picture?
• Poll: Did you thank a veteran?
• Firefighters to wear red for fundraiser
• Thanksgiving dinner will be pricier this year
• Fire hits downtown Lockport
• How many voters at polls?
• Will Joliet lift pay freeze?
• Stumping for the city council
• Blood evidence slows Moustis stabbing case
• Santa to arrive this Saturday
• Santa’s Cops target shoppers
• Morris Legion slates Veterans Day events
• Grundy County Jail hires new superintendent
• The fixes aren’t easy, but you’re worth it
• Plainfield firefighters collecting toys for tots
• Black leaders tap Davis as pick for Chicago mayor
• Poll: Was justice done?
• Problems shut down aging nuke plants
• Grant rejection means no new cops for Yorkville
• Kinzinger already helping GOP in D.C.
• Veterans Day program set for Thursday in Joliet
• The bare ‘Bones’ of writing
• Developer: Is Braidwood ready for apartments?
• Huge water main break in Yorkville
• Shorewood preps for newest tenant
• Board Moves To Cut $4.4 Million From Budget
• Illiana Expressway Included In Regional Plan
• Police and Fire Department History Burning To Be Told In Special Exhibition
• Board to Residents On Budget: Make Your Voices Heard
• New York Life Presents Free Legacy Seminar At Joliet Museum
• Landfill’s Methane Gas to Provide Needed Revenues, Power 3800 Homes
• Will County Board Supports New Lenox Cancer Treatment Center
• Troy schools craft policy for consistent grading
• Plainfield votes downoutdoor flea market plan
• A fun day for kids at SOS village fundraiser
• New contract includes free Joliet garbage cans
• School’s neighbors get parking limits
• Job-seekers say recession far from over
• Eby psychiatric report delayed
• Alleged Calif. spree robber hit Joliet bank?
• Motorist with revoked license killed in crash
• Tichava leaving as Kendall chief deputy
• Extreme stunts carry tough message
• Report: Man made threats online
• Man charged with Sunday shooting
• Elementary scores up on state tests, high school juniors fall flat
• State to rebuild I-57 bridge
• SD205 delays school vote
• Woman dies during 5-K race
• New online presence for Shorewood
• New Herald-News website to launch
• District pays aide $30,000 in injury dispute settlement
• No surprise fees for parents
• Parolee wasn’t picked up after battery claim
• Gas main break closes Plainfield street
• Tichava leaving as Kendall chief deputy
• Will County Board Receives 2011 Budget
• Dem candidates roll through Aurora
• Fire destroys Plainfield motel
• Judge tosses out lien in Manhattan
• Capturing Bess' life
• Harvest 2k/5k run set for Plainfield Sunday
• Citgo opens new diesel unit at Lemont
• Mom ran a tight ship
• Shorewood proactive in pricing damaged mailboxes
• Election filing begins Dec. 13
• USF to alumni: Phone home for Homecoming
• Braidwood resolution targets drugs, alcohol
• Joliet clerk's office targets violence
• Police Report: Peotone man faces firearms charges
• Lockport train station wins spot in history
• Grundy County balances its budget
• Change in store for the JackHammers?
• USF to honor alumni at homecoming event
• Plan set to spend proposed taxes
• Yorkville swears in first deputy chiefs
• Car hits semi; driver killed
• Warrants
• Joliet couple power up for solar energy
• Plainfield schools settle suit for $30K
• EPA: Air, water OK after oil spill
• Business legend dies in Joliet
• Michelin Tires sued over fatal motorcycle crash
• Motorists Get Green Light Along Laraway Road
• Judge dismisses counts in PEP lawsuit
• Fire damage to Plainfield home at $250K
• Air, water safe in Romeoville?
• Montgomery man wins $20,000 from 'Regis and Kelly'
• Plainfield music club, neighbors still fighting
• Volunteer cleanup to start at old Kendall jail
• Joliet board OKs bid for new elementary school
• Walsh: Will County will move on
• Joliet police: Man hit by car dies
• Checkpoint nets alleged thief
• Man struck by car in Joliet dies
• Joliet Diocese bishop headed west
• A quieter Crest Hill in 2011?
• Romeoville man hurt in crash
• Firefighters battle Plainfield blaze
• Area tea party backers gear up to be heard
• Oil pipeline to open Friday after big spill in Romeoville
• L-Way coach charged in sex assault of girl
• No weekday graduations
• Freight cars carrying sand derail in Yorkville; no injuries reported
• Oil spills draw scrutiny from Congress
• County group to evaluate rodeo laws
• County OKs shelter despite complaints
• NCHS student charged with battering officer
• Bomb found in drug bust
• VA clinic heading to Silver Cross space
• Emerald ash borer spreading into Kendall
• Bolingbrook man found shot
• With Schultz out, race for mayor is crowded
• End of an era for Joliet mayor's office
• Romeo High names new principal
• Duo robs ice-cream vendor
• Board insist museum closing is temporary
• Man jailed in road rage incident
• County official dies at 53
• State agency approves Navistar financing
• Clerk sues Kane board over funding denial
• Freight cars derail in Yorkville
• Plainfield schools keep Saturday graduation
• Romeoville spill causing a pain at the pump
• Pipeline seepage plugged; cleanup efforts continue
• Frankfort buys site for public works
• Bolingbrook park's newest workers: bees
• 28 city workers retire early
• Speeding gets pricier
• Blockson families closer to payout
• Leaders break ground on lock and dam project
• $400K bond for Lemont man charged with sex assault
• Man arrested for DUI in I-80 fatal
• Will Co. official, Matt Ryan, dies
• Report: Romeoville oil leak plugged
• Valley View' schools chief to retire at year's end
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• Plainfield police retrain with tasers
• Bluestone Bar falls victim to 'tough business climate'
• Mokena residents gear up for school referendum
• Morris cracks down on student parking
• Crash snarls I-80
• Kendall County joins water planning group
• PLSD board urges leader to clear deficit
• I-80 accident halts traffic in both directions
• Firefighting goes international in Romeoville
• Brother hoping for Marine's proper burial
• Lockport school district to vote on East addition
• Yorkville gathers patriots to remember 9/11
• And the memories remain
• Police Report
• JTHS students talk take teen topics to radio
• Empress preps for fresh start
• Lockport embraces Civil War era
• EPA: Pipeline leak slowing, size unclear
• MacGyver bomb explodes during school recess
• Joliet man jailed in child-sex case
• Joliet vet recalls pride in serving since 9/11
• Troubles a threat to the JackHammers?
• Joliet cancer facility at center of debate
• Allegations against Moustis
• Academy a 'miracle fulfilled'
• Sharpshooters will cull Will County deer
• Ruling set for Tuesday on Navistar bond deal
• Joliet brothers guilty in brutal rape
• Plainfield schools look for more cuts
• Oil spill affecting bus service in Valley View
• EPA: Crude oil leak not stopped in Romeoville
• New scare at Valley View school
• Famed light going back up
• Is high-speed rail in Channahon's future?
• School contract delayed
• Kiwanis marks 90 years of Joliet giving
• How important is residency?
• Uninvited sleepover guest
• Oil pipeline leaks in Romeoville
• Sharpshooters to cull deer herds
• Navistar sets sights on Joliet, Lisle sites
• Silver Cross wants new cancer center
• Police Report
• Halvorson's eye on local veterans
• Republican challenger: Economy is top priority
• Woman with nude pics on iPhone charged
• Two stabbed in Joliet
• Briefs: Agriculture riders here
• Photo caption contest winner
• State owes Will County $4 million
• Auto giant Bill Jacobs dies
• Romeoville's interim chief is no novice
• Romeoville is losing veteran police chief
• Joliet approves tax deal to lure Navistar
• Muggers beat Joliet victim
• Oswegoan gets prison in heroin death
• Is Riley Fox's accused killer sane?
• Priest pleads guilty in sex abuse case
• Joliet Residents are Facing Foreclosure. The NFCC Can Help.
• Bomb threats investigated
• Shots fired at Joliet home
• Peterson attorneys: Drop gun charge
• Dad reunited with son after 19 years
• Valley View examines budget with nearly $5 million deficit
• Frosh face stricter standards for staying eligible
• Citizens of the year announced
• Drew Peterson makes impassioned plea for kids
• Joliet Township looking to acquire bus warehouse
• School Board to vote on elementary school bids
• No sign of relief this Labor Day
• Underwear-clad man causes scene in street
• Man robbed by man he befriended in prison
• Minooka high chief to retire in '11
• Turn waste into fertilizer
• 'MacGyver bomb' explodes on Plainfield fifth-grader
• Sutlers on State festival coming to Lockport
• Councilman's retirement boosts pension payout
• Police seek help in solving Lockport murder
• Angel Food Press release
• Business Calendar
• Yorkville school board names leader
• Romeoville trustees review details of interchange plans
• Jobless rates down from June
• Business owner feels recovery a long way out
• Frankfort names new police chief
• Joliet police to fill captain spots
• Hazardous materials scare at Edward
• Plainfield party to aid U.S. troops
• New schedule for Morris High worries parents
• 'Jersey Shore' cast member coming to Aurora nightclub
• Will County CED: No tax credit for temp jobs
• Warrants
• Police: Syringe used in robbery
• Will County deputy resigns
• Route 30 closure to be 'painful'
• Tortoise no longer on the lam
• Yorkville debates costs of bike path expansion
• Heritage Corridor board welcomes new members
• Shots fired; two men arrested
• Morris cops: Stolen flags burned
• Woman fears police use of nude pics from phone
• Allegations lead to firing of paramedic
• Who will be the next JTHS superintendent?
• 4-year-old left on school bus
• Will County wants to protect airport interests
• Man fleeing police leaps off overpass
• Minooka gets Bright Star award
• DUI case in license limbo?
• Driver pistol-whipped in Joliet
• Restraining order against stabbing victim
• 2 arrested, 2 questioned in exotic bird thefts
• Briefs: Parenting class
• Sun-Times Media launches ToDrive.com
• Schools' legal fees piling up
• House raffle falls victim to budget cuts
• New Lenox groups to honor Sept. 11 victims
• Firefighters run to remember 9/11 victims
• Gov. Quinn focuses on labor in Will County
• Photo caption contest winner
• Minooka schools seek input before changing boundaries
• USF helps to promote 3rd Labor Rights week
• United Way names campaign chairwoman
• Kansas playing New Lenox show Saturday
• No more trouble with once-controversial landfill
• Has emerald ash beetle invaded Plainfield?
• Thieves take power wheelchair
• Man charged with infant's '08 murder
• Few Joliet grade schools make AYP on state tests
• Reports: Man hurt in blaze was setting house on fire
• USF to celebrate schools' founding sisters
• Other fund paid for vehicle perks
• Breaking down the special fund for Glasgow's efforts
• What is the price of justice in Will County?
• Court won't free Peterson
• Zucchini gone wild
• DuPage woman is first human case of West Nile in state this year
• No charges expected in car show death
• Channahon students move
• River Days coming to downtown Plainfield
• Rt. 59 closure causes small delays for buses
• Ex-Joliet landfill owner to plead guilty in tax case
• Sunny Hill residents become actors for a day
• Teacher uses experiences from South Africa tour
• Shorewood looks to improve splash park
• Bat trapped on West Side tests positive for rabies
• Local students assist in star research
• Photos lead to assault
• Harrah's VP to chair Pink Ribbon Ball
• Fire destroys part of New Lenox home
• Gun shots hit car in Joliet
• Frankfort motorcyclist killed in crash
• Manhattan homeowners fighting lien
• Bolingbrook takes action against loud music in cars
• Sheriff's luck is MOMS' good fortune
• Minooka treasurer retires after 18 years
• Shorewood center lands tenant
• Remembering those lost
• Ceremony highlights train station's 150 years
• MIDWEST GENERATION DISPUTES COAL ASH STUDY
• Mokena group out to drum up support for tax increase
• Minooka police lauded for capture of suspected killer
• Vasquez gets 15 years in crash that killed 5
• A return to rural roots at Will County Fair
• Paulie's Pub fundraiser to benefit U.S. troops
• Police spoil pot delivery
• Warrants
• Artist's plan could net $250K for JT schools
• Peterson's cop son suspended
• Corrections
• Briefs: Grundy sheriff gets grant
• Insurance experts: Easing effects of disaster
• Forecasting 'light years ahead' of 20 years ago
• IDOT to OK Arsenal Road bids
• Tainted water claims at Midwest Generation
• School custodian faces child porn charge
• Pancake Breakfast Has A Flip Side
• Ronnie Baker Brooks and His Band Play Rooftop Concert
• Homer Glen may split from school district
• Sun-Times Media invites community to join 5K
• Yorkville OKs historic names for city streets
• JTHS Foundation taking grant applications
• Plainfield school lunch fees rise
• Life was never the same after storm
• Feds drop case against Robert Blagojevich
• Faulty fire alarm trips up Romeoville High start
• State delays force Plainfield to rebid project
• Medical building could rise in New Lenox this fall
• Village reduces church's tap-on fee
• JTHS business leader honored for work
• Steal from poor to get rich?
• Man hurt fixing elevator
• Plainfield High School won't forget
• Unity leading Black Pride in Joliet
• Will County schools going high-tech
• Police detail discovery of pot plants
• Ham radio folks assisted behind the scenes
• Joliet man survives aneurysm, tornado
• High school principal resigns
• New Lenox firefighters, police to battle
• Pawn shop makes pitch for Joliet site
• $1.5M released for housing in Joliet
• Lockport revved up for car shows
• Today, medical community is more prepared
• Medical teams never forgot scenes at hospitals
• 3 arrested in pot-growing operation
• Memories haunt those first on the scene
• Demolition derby in downtown Plainfield?
• Braidwood top cop: Effort to force him out
• Joliet chamber lauds JTHS leader
• Property tax due Sept. 2
• JackHammers behind on bills
• Monitors back, but part-time
• Moustis not arraigned yet
• Men stealing steel?
• Readers recall the twister's horror
• Joliet police give Tommy gun to museum
• Two cases, one Drew Peterson
• Medical building may rise in New Lenox
• Community service for resisting arrest
• St. Mary's staff: Storm was a 'black wall'
• Wheatland family: 'That's the one that got us'
• Board, residents discuss MCHS parking options
• Plainfield Schools building turned to rubble
• Aggravated DUI charge in crash that injured four
• The Steelmen band goes marching in
• Pulse
• Lockport event for foster kids features fair
• St. Joseph Academy announces principal
• Several unlocked vehicles burglarized
• Tornado changed Plainfield
• Crash victim identified
• Pastor Brooks' prayer
• Joliet pastor picked to serve as chaplain of the day in D.C.
• City looks to Facebook for school suggestions
• Group to discuss proposed tax hike
• Joliet foundation gears up for Gospel Fest
• Ceremony to remember victims
• A mom's cry: 'Where's Chase? Where's Chase?'
• Twister maintains grim record
• Formation of advisory council tabled
• Residents urge flooding fix
• Correction
• Briefs: Health fair
• Valley View to up GPA requirement
• Blago's Elvis statue now in Sugar Grove
• Crest Hill, Will County to beautify roads
• Sept. 11 memorial details settled
• Warrants
• Restoring Rialto's glory: Duchess gets a cleaning
• Teen attempts escape
• Joliet boy saves brother's life
• Four hurt in crash near Plainfield
• Will County confirms rabies in sixth bat
• Kendall reaches accord with ex-planning chief
• Candidates pop up in Joliet's District 3
• Former student back to school as principal
• Joliet bridge may open today
• Drivers die in I-57 crashes
• Rabid bat found in Bolingbrook
• Man guilty of beating Joliet toddler to death
• Joliet man sentenced for brutally attacking wife
• Stepan lockout ends
• Joliet bank robbed
• Labor leader: Rough summer for unions
• Fundraiser to benefit school program
• School starts next chapter in century old story
• Schools may adjust salary schedules
• Amateur Rib Cook-Off a true crowd-pleaser
• Man's murder still unsolved, family asking for help
• Murder suspect to return to court Sept. 15
• Grundy man gets 50 years in child porn case
• Pay cut for city council on the docket in Joliet?
• Joliet juror: Blago 'lucky' to escape worse fate
• Joliet juror says Blagojevich is 'lucky'
• Lockport won't seek new school referendum
• Joliet in line for 96-gallon waste carts?
• 25-year councilman retiring
• Elderly woman dies 2 weeks after burned in Joliet
• 2 arrested in botched home burglary
• Exelon working to fix shutdown
• Stolen items valued at $812
• Blago verdict means show must go on
• Union, school to discuss deal on monitors
• Joliet gives JJC a green light
• Photos released from Joliet bank robbery
• Durbin visits Job Corps
• Lockport residents push for sales tax hike
• Blago jury reviews aide's testimony
• Suspects' parents help cops
• Is JJC plan too modern for downtown Joliet?
• Group jumps trio
• Survey cited: State of warehouses bad
• White supremacist arrested
• Bargain earns license for bar
• Manhattan homeowners fighting lien
• Frankfort homeowner's wall OK, no trellis
• Blago guilty of 1 count; jury hung on 23 counts
• Hearing set in Asian carp suit against feds
• Plainfield schools, laid-off monitors to meet
• Public can comment again at Wheatland meetings
• Braidwood nuclear plant shuts down
• Special carnival suits special needs
• Valley View buys calculators for $989 each
• Pulse
• Bikers set for benefit ride
• Plainfield may increase principals' pay
• Board Encourages Public Participation In I-80 Corridor Study
• Cops: Man used sword to assault father
• Advisory board for Plainfield school cuts?
• Amtrak train hits car in Braidwood
• Women's club wants your pics
• Plainfield considers wind energy
• Shoreword to evaluate village road conditions
• Plainfield police praised for work
• Village expands program
• Plainfield considers cell phone ban while driving
• Board Eyes Better Paratransit System For County
• Nonprofit seeks donations to keep doors open
• Joliet police seek driver from Pilcher Park crash
• Yorkville negotiating rec center lease
• Shorewood OKs river plan
• Joliet hospice to break ground on labyrinth
• Belt-tightening at Plainfield schools
• Warrants
• Refinery backs call to keep the canal open
• Man gets 30 years for murder
• New Lenox gas leak sends 26 to hospitals
• Joliet police ask: Can you ID bank robber?
• The Drew Peterson letter: My life in jail
• Yorkville Library looks at raising fees
• Mokena targets emerald ash borer
• Volunteers harvest corn to help local shelters
• Longtime Joliet barber marks 94 years
• Deer expert backs lethal options in Will Co.
• Coming home: 'I'll trade the pain for that joy'
• Free parking with free movie
• Shorewood seeks tax hike
• Familiar face returns to Grundy board
• No more Saturday graduations in Plainfield?
• Food pantry needs your help
• Police Report: Business burglarized
• Rod Blagojevich jury finished with only 2 of 24 counts
• CROP walk Sept. 26
• Valley schools to get $15M from feds
• Craigslist ad gets man $3,000 warrant
• Romeoville fest visitors fight police
• Warehouse workers ask 'Are we getting jobbed?'
• Blagojevich jurors: We're stuck
• No results in Peterson hunt
• Braidwood's top cop out, then back in
• Robber makes bomb threat
• Will Co. giving cold shoulder to beer sales
• Yorkville to hold bike trail referendum
• 'We were counting on Jesse Jr. being called'
• New Lenox developer still not ready after 14 years
• Brandon Road bridge work gets late start
• Stolen gun recovered
• Lockport avoids debt by cutting $5 million
• Convicted of murder, man getting new trial
• 'Blues Brothers' returning to Joliet
• Durbin talks health care at USF
• Man charged in Darien murders won't face death penalty
• Joliet bank robbed
• Blagojevich jury is deadlocked
• Fire destroys Mokena home
• Plainfield schools to review budget
• Proposed pub's past places pall on present
• Firefighter dies battling blaze at downtown restaurant
• Local NASCAR race to kick off the Chase
• Former Lemont athlete dies fighting fire
• Briefs: Landscape changes
• You might have to help Blagojevich pay legal bills
• Should murder defendants be tried together?
• Hunt on for grade school chief
• Grundy nears completion of warning siren update
• Ex-husband charged in sexual assault
• Troopers rally for St. Jude's relay
• Valley View offers transfers
• Mokena offers incentives to reduce staff and costs
• Dentist's facade request too big
• Man arrested for child porn
• Lockport Exchange Club is disbanding
• Care Trak gets first patient
• Bottledrop game is attracting fans
• Area inventor creates next generation of sump pumps
• Man's alleged murder of his wife baffles family
• LTHS board considers school plans
• You're in good, strong hands with this doctor
• Suspect escapes police
• Engineers traumatized by deaths
• Bill Foster to Hultgren: 'Hey mon! It's not me'
• JJC chefs take silver medal
• $5M bond for man accused of killing girlfriend
• Farm talk with Foster: Business economics, tech
• Warrants
• Jonas Brothers up to bat at Silver Cross Field
• 'Metracide' deaths on the rise
• Des Plaines River search fails to find body
• Joliet moves ahead on new fire station plans
• A holy inappropriate theft
• Joliet shootings linked?
• Will County kids gear up to return to school
• Jonas Brothers likely to snarl traffic
• Cops: Angry man killed cat
• Naperville, Mokena men in Lake Michigan rescue
• Joliet police event a successful night out against crime
• Blagojevich verdict? Maybe next week
• Church's 'labor of love' proving costly
• Joliet park a 'good place to hide somebody'
• Retirement offer worth $1.8M?
• Will County official's son in court
• Defendant: I didn't murder 2-year-old
• Kendall sheriff answers questions about bills
• Asian carp found near Lake Michigan may have been planted
• Striking workers rally at Yorkville lumber supplier
• Traffic advisory for Jonas Brothers event
• Crest Hill marks 50 years with a jam-packed picnic
• Kendall candidate: Tighten review of sheriff's bills
• If convicted, Blago could lose property
• Police: Fight leads to burglary arrest
• Seat belt diligence lands police $10K
• Woman assaulted at motel
• Stepan Co. lockout going nowhere
• What's weighing on Blagojevich jurors
• Witness: Murder suspect good with child
• Gun fired in fight
• Kendall board: No acting planning chief for now
• Floodwater collects in basements and roads
• Police: Joliet cop attacked in bar brawl
• The Dogz Perform Concert At Joliet Area Historical Museum
• Road improvements slated for Minooka
• Channahon police hosting a night out against crime
• Bettors, bookies believe odds stacked against Blagojevich
• New development for New Lenox
• Plainfield schools shift to save about $250K
• Police find stolen property
• Standing up for stem cell research
• Detective testifies in toddler's death
• Jonas Brothers tickets go on sale Wednesday
• Floods a familiar sight for Fairmont woman
• Lockport works to ease flooding
• Will Co. flooded by morning storms
• Joliet Area Historical Museum Wins 2010 AASLH Award Of Merit
• New role for a familiar face at LTHS
• Pulse
• Minooka asks for census cooperation
• Shorewood considers garden plan
• Crossroads Fest coming
• Five years for post-AA meeting DUI crash
• Woman charged with stealing thousands from Oswego Scouts
• Plainfield library offers audiobook downloads
• Loretta is key to great pizza
• New leader for LTHS freshman campus
• Firefighters send off one of their own
• New Lenox welcomes Army sergeant home
• 3 hurt in possible fog-related crash
• Union Pacific yard opens today
• AmericanTowns Heroes: Logan Hearn Takes Control And Saves His Brother's Life
• Board change for Minooka schools
• For candidate, staying on the ballot was half the fight
• Mokena mayor hired to run Blue Island's water dept.
• Minooka weathering tough economy
• Dim economy evident in Braidwood financials
• Police Blotter
• Officials: Food not source of outbreak
• Wind energy in Plainfield?
• Channahon eases charity raffle rules
• New Lenox can't limit election signs
• Police Report: Electrical fire at ministry center
• Warrants
• Yorkville pushes for Countryside cleanup
• Was dog's death an unnecessary tragedy?
• Burglaries up on Joliet's far west side
• Next police challenge: Jonas Brothers
• Metro West panel supports Prairie Parkway
• Teaching teachers with hands-on experiences
• Birkett demands apology from Brodsky
• Jonases going to bat in Joliet
• Flood assessments to begin next week
• Phone lines out for unemployment office
• Mokena school debt grows
• St. Joe's gets grant to ease nursing shortages
• Opening day at the Kendall County Fair
• JJC ag lab in turf war
• Judge rejects request from Blagojevich jury
• Joliet house set on fire
• Family pet killed after return to shelter
• Food poisoning at DiNolfo's?
• New school? Homer Glen waiting on SD 205 board
• No other penalty for Joliet's Bar Blu
• Rialto's Duchess due for cleaning
• Hall sued over possible food poisoning
• Healthcare reform sparks questions
• Front door meets back end
• Home sales up 20 percent from 2009
• Revving up interest in Homer Glen real estate
• Freight cars derail
• State police take over stabbing probe
• Will County Towns Named Best In The Country
• Charges filed in Romeoville woman's murder
• New Lenox seeks railroad quiet zones
• New Lenox lifts restrictions on campaign signs
• Mosquito with West Nile found in Bolingbrook
• Developer, residents fighting over road
• Kendall County Fair has new look
• Yorkville residents balk at 'luxury' bike trails
• Blagojevich defense gives theatrical closing argument
• Transit study to be presented
• Joliet cops have leads on body found in park
• Joliet Central opens its doors to renovation
• Victim reported 2 knife attacks on same day
• Board Opposes Amendment To Foreclosure Law, Cites Concern For Residents
• Graduation day problem unsolved
• Logistics center on track
• Sam Adam Jr. in showdown with Blagojevich judge
• Yorkville seeks completion of developments
• 2 charged in heroin bust
• Alleged robber caught
• St. Joseph Academy hopes replace grief
• Cop talk identifies Woodridge man's remains
• Man dies days after car plunges into creek
• Man bludgeoned wife to death, kept body for 10 days
• Briefs: Culver's hosts fundraiser for United Way
• Man drowns in Joliet pond
• Owners, developer battle over New Lenox land sale
• Kendall board denies refund to developers
• Will JTHS super be hanging 10 soon?
• Bolingbrook board boosts businesses
• Spray paint causes house fire
• WWII re-enactment honors veterans
• Public comments unheard in Wheatland
• Brodsky wants Drew's gun charge dropped
• It all comes down to closing remarks in Blagojevich trial
• Will County Board Member To Serve As U.S. Senate Chaplain
• In Tough Economy, Roads and Bridges Still A Priority
• Independent Report Forecasts Need For Improved Judicial Facilities
• Sweet Downtown Deals For Seniors On Sweet Senior Tuesdays
• Five Bridges Folk Series
• Will County Requests Moratorium On Dumping Into Quarries
• Board Debates Consequences of Recently Passed Quarry Bill
• CN Fulfills Fears About Train Impact On Communities
• County Board Backs Illiana Expressway
• Will County Program Offering Nearly $40,000 Of Assistance To Homebuyers
• Will County Meets With White House, Congressional Leaders
• Board Moving To Freeze Salaries Of Elected Officials
• County Highlighted As One Of Healthiest In Illinois
• Renewable Energy Has County Seeing Green
• McPhillips Appointed To District 3 Vacancy
• Board Approves Federal Agenda, Establishes Priority Funding Requests
• Will County To Receive Stimulus Funds For Infrastructure Improvements
• Will County Board Launches Facebook and Twitter Pages
• Future Of Video Gaming In Will County Still Uncertain
• Board Schedules Public Hearings On Video Poker
• Board Recognized For Promoting Electronics Recycling
• Two Very Special Acoustic Performances By Bryan Adams
• Board Calls For Reforms of Surface Transportation Board
• New Recovery Home Gives Drug Offenders A Chance At Rehabilitation
• Landfill Methane Could Be A Powerhouse For Will County
• Board To Hold Multiple Public Hearings On Video Poker
• Save Thousands When Buying a Home
• Chairman Opposes Video Poker, Urges County To Take Action
• Board Begins County’s First-Ever Facility Needs Analysis
• Public, Board Outraged Over Proposed Changes To State Environmental Law
• Will County Faces Difficult Budget Choices
• Save Thousands When Buying a Home
• Board Fights For Funding Ridgewood Infrastructure
• Board Holding Public Workshop On Proposed Changes To State Environmental Law
• Board Passes Conservation Design Guidelines For New Subdivisions
• High School Students In Will County Are Directly Involved In Government
• Local Seniors To Be Given More Time To Apply For Property Tax Relief
• New Will County Board Members Appointed To Fill Vacancies
• Will County’s Official Earth Day Celebration
• Smooth Roads Ahead: Board Ready To Approve Patching Repairs
• Save Thousands When Buying a Home
• Will County Board Works to Protect Natural Resources
• Will County Board Approves Roadside Memorial Program for Victims of DUIs
• Will County Board Plans Transportation System Of The Future
• Joliet Tax Day Tea Parties Protest Rally April 15 Tea Party
• Will County Board Promotes Local Tourism In Effort To Stimulate The Economy
• Board Mourns Passing Of Member David Evans
• Save Thousands When Buying a Home
• Board Returns from Capitol Hill Committed To Working toward Economic Recovery
• Board Moves Forward With Its Strategic Plan
• Board Approves County’s Legislative Agenda
• Save Thousands When Buying a Home
• Board Drafting Vision And Mission Statements For The County
• Babich To Serve On National Association Of County Officials Committee
• Is It Really a Good Time to Buy a Home?
• Will County Launches Prescription Drug Discount Card That Can Be Used by All Residents
• Board Vows to Fight Surface Transportation Board’s Decision
• Board Raises Court Fees to Support Children's AdvocacyCenter
• Board approves IDOT’s Letter of Intent to improve I-55, Weber Road Interchange
• Is It Really a Good Time to Buy a Home?
• Newly Elected Board Members Sworn-In

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