Joliet News

Joliet police arrested 11 people and recovered nine guns, including one used to shoot a 23-year-old man Saturday night.

Joliet's unemployment rate remained above 12 percent for the month of November. According to Illinois Department of Employment Security statistics released Tuesday, the city's rate was 12.5 percent, up slightly from October's 12.4 percent.

Despite glaucoma, macular degeneration and cataracts, Lucy Johnson, 77, of Joliet, runs "The God Squad," a youth group of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Joliet.

Edward Shanahan will be doing public Psychic Readings for the last time in 2009.

A 44-year-old man was allegedly stabbed in the head with a screwdriver by the husband of the woman he was dropping off home early Sunday morning in southwest suburban Joliet, police said.

The city council's vote Tuesday to raise taxes is not likely to be a solution to Joliet's financial problems.

Two men are probably on Santa's naughty list after allegedly taking criminal steps to make sure they got a lot of toys anyway.

Hammers Sports Bar and Grill is slated to open Monday in the shopping center at Black and Infantry roads.

Illinois- Hunters in Illinois harvested nearly 47-hundred deer during this year's muzzle loader season.

Charges were dismissed Wednesday in six cases involving alleged violations of the state's ban against smoking cigarettes in public.

Share + Comments Dec 17, 2009 7:15 am US/Central JOLIET, Ill. A Joliet man has lots of explaining to do, after a joke went horribly wrong.

Easter Seals celebrated 60 years of service in 2009, including an open house for the newly remodeled and expanded child care program at 212 Barney Drive, Joliet .

The city will close the recycling drop-off center at 818 Cass St. on Dec. 21. The city, in partnership with Will County, monitored and sustained the recycling center throughout 2009, transitioning it into an unstaffed facility.

Sam's Club on Larkin Avenue was bustling with a very special group of Christmas shoppers early Sunday.

Repeat drunk drivers, drug users and even people convicted of battery and weapons violations are serving less than three weeks' total time behind bars under a secret change in policy by Illinois Gov.

Joliet Township High School District wants to hear what folks think about its dress code policy and perhaps requiring school uniforms.

A southwest suburban teen was killed after apparently losing control of a car and crossing into oncoming traffic Friday morning in Joliet.

Joliet and New Lenox announced the opening of cold shelters Wednesday as temperatures plunged.

Share + Dec 9, 2009 10:47 pm US/Central ELWOOD, Ill. The driver of an ambulance was seriously injured and has been cited Wednesday after the ambulance he was driving flipped over in southwest suburban Elwood.

Share + Dec 9, 2009 12:20 pm US/Central JOLIET, Ill. Late last year, a Will County jury found a southwest suburban Joliet woman guilty of violating the state's smoking ban.