A banquet facility that once hosted a boisterous show by rapper Vanilla Ice is still drawing flak from neighbors about noise. Resident Alan Hareld and several neighbors on the city's...
The Will County Board on Thursday approved a $10-per-day increase on the 50 private-pay beds at Sunny Hill Nursing Home. The move increases the daily rate to $164. Sunny Hill...
Sheriff Paul Kaupas said this week that his department would need more employees--most of them correctional officers--for "barebones" staffing of the expanded Adult Detention Facility. Chief Deputy David Van Dyke,...
A planner who played a key role in creating Will County's award-winning land-use development plan, has been tapped to direct the Regional Planning Board's planning efforts for the six-county area....
At first glance, a Midland, Mich.-based company looks like the perfect first participant in the Will County Forest Preserve District's corporate donor program. The firm has capped a 20-year good...
The Forest Preserve District is moving ahead with plans for a new preserve intended to protect a watershed, rather than trees, south of University Park. The proposed 285-acre Black Walnut...
City Hall's most notable mover and shaker one morning this month was an unassuming beekeeper from Wilmington. Steve Macholz, with city employees watching from inside the building, coaxed some 20,000...
Forest Preserve District Commissioner Kathleen Konicki (R-Homer Glen) on Thursday criticized her colleagues' decision to pay $1 million for 66 acres southeast of Manhattan. The Wilton Township property, on the...
City officials want to turn the former Joliet Correctional Center site into something more than atmosphere shots for Fox Network's "Prison Break" and cameos in movies like the "Blues Brothers."...
Roughly two months after breaking ground for the Adult Detention Facility expansion, county officials are ordering structural steel from the mills. Public Building Commission Executive Director Mel Rull said early...