Jerry Shnay

A local businessman, under suspicion for running what police said was the largest stolen-goods operation in Will County history, will soon get back most of the property taken from him...

A proposal to split the huge federal judicial district based in Chicago and build a courthouse in Joliet has been introduced in Congress by Rep. George Sangmeister, a Mokena Democrat....

A Will County jury began hearing evidence Tuesday in the trial of a Plainfield teenager accused of supplying weapons to the youth who shot a Plainfield High School football player...

Officials of an 85-year-old shelter for the homeless announced Thursday the start of a $1.2 million campaign to build a new facility that will replace its old building, which was...

A Stateville inmate who escaped the death penalty earlier this week was sentenced Wednesday to life imprisonment for taking part in the brutal slaying of a prison guard. But that...

A Will County jury this week convicted a second person of murder in the stabbing death of an elderly Joliet man 14 years ago. Dontalyon Jimerson, 36, was found guilty...

A Will County judge has denied a motion that would have prevented the city from acquiring a piece of property it needed to build a park and complete a million-dollar...

The City Council Monday revised its agreement with the city's cable TV company that would add premium channels for more than 30,000 customers in exchange for dropping an FM service...

For veteran Joliet Police Officer Richard Goepper, the murder of Minooka 18-year-old Danielle McTee was a case that never left him-day or night. "I used to wake up at night...

In a legal maneuver that closed the books on a 6 1/2-year murder case, a Homer Township woman convicted of killing her 10-month-old daughter was freed Thursday by a Will...