Teresa Puente

Chaney-Monge Elementary School District 88 is holding a community forum Tuesday night. One of the issues facing the district this year is a referendum to increase the educational tax rate...

A Joliet ranch owner facing an animal-cruelty charge was released Tuesday on a $1,000 recognizance bond. Adolfo Arias allegedly abandoned a horse in a pasture south of Elwood, where it...

A Catholic elementary school voluntarily closed Tuesday after three pupils were found to have a bacterial infection. The pupils at St. Raymond School, 713 Douglas St., have shigellosis, a relatively...

The Internet and computer bulletin boards may soon be coming to the village halls of the southwest suburbs. The Will County Governmental League is facilitating their arrival to local governments....

The three-member Fire Protection District Board has unanimously voted to appeal a recent court ruling involving the Bromberek Combined School District 113 A. At issue is which safety code applies...

Residents can expect to see increased activity at the UNO-VEN Company refinery in the village. Starting Friday, workers will begin a maintenance project at the refinery at 135th Street and...

Police on Sunday were looking for suspects in a drive-by shooting that left one Joliet man dead and a second wounded last week. Marvin L. Erving, 22, was shot at...

A Lockport man who allegedly led police on a car chase that ended in a crash that killed another man near Morris Saturday was charged with reckless homicide, Illinois State...

Two people were killed in separate accidents in the south and southwest suburbs over the Labor Day weekend. A 45-year-old motorcyclist was struck and killed late Saturday by the driver...

A 17-year-old Willow Springs boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing of a 16-year-old in Bridgeview this weekend. Randall S. Parks allegedly stabbed to death Matthew Weyandt,...