Crest Hill News

Goats feed on oat grass on the roof at Siegel 's Cottonwood Farm in Crest Hill, IL on Thursday May 24, 2012.

JOLIET, Ill., May 25,2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Bill Jacobs Joliet is very proud to have participated in the Chevy Youth Baseball Program this year and they are extremely excited to have had one of the national winners of the Baseball Mom promotion chosen right in their own backyard.

One will take place at 9 a.m. at Boardman Cemetery on Paxson Drive, and another at 11 a.m. at the Village Veterans Memorial, 357 Briarcliff Road.

The recent sale of a vacant strip mall on Weber Road was topic at the recent Crest Hill City Council meeting.

The Will County Department of Highways in conjunction with the Illinois Department of Transportation, the village of Romeoville and the city of Crest Hill will start a major road project.

After the voters had their say and two public hearings were held, the village of Plainfield has moved forward with plans to create an alternative electrical supplier.

Business and community leaders need to become "cheerleaders" for downtown Joliet to help spur redevelopment, City Manager Thomas Thanas told a chamber of commerce crowd Monday.

The Catholic Diocese of Joliet is not likely to leave with the blessings of City Hall when it moves to Crest Hill.

The new owner of the pristine, vacant strip mall on Weber Road in Crest Hill is focused on higher things than retail.

Ride the Rock, a free, family 16-mile group bike ride and festival sponsored by the Forest Preserve District of Will County, will return for the sixth year from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Rock Run Greenway - I & M Canal Access.

"It took us many years to screw up the water quality and it's going to take us many years to fix it," said Jennifer Hammer, ecological management and watershed specialist with The Conservation Foundation in Naperville.

Police say a parolee who isn't allowed to leave his house kept two others inside at gunpoint Tuesday night.

There is a slew of great bands performing throughout the area this weekend so call a babysitter, get your friends together and head on out to catch some live musica Friday at Bada Brew rocks heavy with "Deadman's Hand", "The Last Nova", "Bobaflex", "Heart-Set Self-Destruct" and "Persistence Of Memory". The jams kick off at 7 pm and ticket price is ... (more)

A rescue dog missing for more than a month is believed to have spent most of last week in Romeoville - thanks to a kindhearted resident.

As Drew Peterson was brought into a Will County courtroom Friday morning for his first court appearance in 1-1/2 years, a bailiff gave the standard admonition that no one in the gallery was to communicate with anyone in custody.