Jerry Shnay

Almost all of the city's 620 full-time workers will get fatter paychecks after the City Council approved raises of 4 to 5 1/4 percent at its Tuesday night meeting. Those...

An ordinance banning fashion shows featuring scantily clad models and most other "adult entertainment" is now on the books in Joliet, but not before one councilman objected to the new...

After helping the nearly broke Rialto Square Theater through still another financial crisis, the executive director of the theater's landlord-the Will County Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority-has quit. Joseph Mikan,...

Sheriff's Police were investigating the murder Sunday night of a woman whose body was found in her house in Joliet Township. Janelle Speicher, 27, who suffered stab wounds to her...

The county has been awarded a $56,000 grant by a state agency that is earmarked for a multicounty state police group's war on auto thefts. The money, requested by Will...

Joliet could get $320,000 more in state revenue after a special census of more than 2,300 new housing units is completed. But results of that head-counting could complicate the city's...

Less than two months after a $1.16 million bond issue for Joliet's Rialto Square Theatre was approved by the City Council, officials of the financially strapped theater say they will...

The City Council Wednesday unanimously approved a new health benefits package for all city employees that is expected to save the city more than $780,000 a year. According to City...

Police are investigating the stabbing of a prison inmate at Stateville Monday morning while he and another inmate were in a holding cell in Will County Courthouse. Glenn Smith, 25,...

Fire Department investigators are probing the cause of a blaze early Thursday that killed a Joliet Township man and destroyed the back porch of his house. Mark A. Stahl, 27,...