Jerry Shnay

A short-line railroad, connecting businesses in Crest Hill, Joliet and Rockdale, will begin operations later this month with three trains weekly, it was announced Monday. The 6-mile-long Joliet Junction Railroad,...

One of the nine defendants in the recently completed trial of street gang members implicated in an arson murder was shot in the leg shortly after noon Wednesday. Eddie Olender,...

Pizzas for pistols? The Joliet police are hoping that the idea catches on. The first 200 Joliet residents turning in firearms to the police on a "no questions asked" basis...

The lack of rain over the last month and the increased use of water by residents could force Joliet officials to curtail lawn watering as early as Tuesday. Dennis Duffield,...

A Will County judge is being asked to set aside his decision last year to award $662,670 to a Joliet businessman for a small strip of land that another judge...

Former Palos Hills day-care operator Sandra Fabiano, who was acquitted of sexual-abuse charges five years ago, has dropped her multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Palos Hills Police Department, but her lawyer...

Bond was set Tuesday at $125,000 for a local man charged with the murder of a Steger man. Robert Clark, 30, is accused of killing John Kernagis, 27. Clark is...

A Joliet Fire Department officer described to a Will County jury Tuesday how he groped through dense smoke in the first floor of a home on the city's east side...

Mayor Arthur Schultz ruled Monday that a Housing Authority of Joliet commissioner violated no rules when he mailed a campaign letter to housing residents on behalf of a candidate for...

A Will County judge Thursday ruled that Joliet could reject a Wisconsin company's low bid to repair a damaged water well and refused the firm's request for an injunction against...