Joliet News

THURSDAY, FEB. 9 Property Damage Someone smashed the driver's side window of a car parked in the 700 block of Brockwood Road, but nothing was taken from the vehicle.

Diary entries describing a 1997 murder in DuPage County tie a former Joliet man arrested in December to the long-unsolved slaying, prosecutors said Friday.

The public is invited to a Valentine's Day dance at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at The Timbers of Shorewood retirement community, 1100 N. River Road, Shorewood .

Jerry Armstrong will be performing at the Hoof & Fin Roadhouse, 3501 Channahon Rd.

Four-year-old Richie Lopez reacts to bubbles floating through the air during his session of therapy for his autism, Thursday at the Easter Seals Jayne Shover Center in Elgin.

This year, St. Mary Immaculate School is featuring some notable auction items at its annual fundraiser, Galabration '12: Diamonds & Denim, to benefit the school and its children.

A three-member panel chosen Wednesday by the Will County Democratic Central Committee is seeking a candidate to serve out the remainder of State Sen.

LaVerne and Dorothy Brown, of Joliet, Ill., served Wednesday, Feb. 8, as the first official patients at the new Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Ill.

Kendall B. Richards: 19, of 225 Tampa St. in Park Forest, was arrested by Park Forest police and booked into the county jail Tuesday on charges of armed robbery and burglary.

The Illiana Expressway project, a highway that would connect Interstate 65 in Indiana to Interstate 55 near Joliet, has taken a giant step forward.

Sgt. Manuel Loggins, Jr., 31, a native of Joliet, Ill., was pronounced dead at a Mission Viejo hospital after he was shot during a traffic stop at San Clemente High School about 4:45 a.m., authorities said.

The comedian, who starred in one of the top variety shows in television history, will talk about "The Carol Burnett Show" and other topics when she appears at the Rialto in downtown Joliet.

"The Lion in Winter," written by James Goldman and directed by Luke Pascale of Plainfield, is a story about the King of England and his daytime-TV train wreck of a family.

Part Two: Plainfield Abolitionists The Inquiry Decades before the outbreak of the Civil War 150 years ago, the battle to end slavery had been waged by abolitionists, typically under a cloak of secrecy.

Feb. 2 Seat belt stop The cops pulled over a Joliet man for driving around without wearing his seat belt and found out he didn't have a valid license either, police said.

Police are looking for an Indianapolis trucker who stuck a gun in his girlfriend's mouth when she accompanied him to pick up a trailer at an intermodal in Joliet early Wednesday, police said.

Reilly and the police department's burglary task force patrol specifically to stop break-ins, which are still occurring regularly in the central and eastern districts.

A former Joliet mayoral candidate who was removed from the Republican primary ballot in the 11th Congressional District is running as a write-in candidate.

Police said 19-year-old Devante Saxton was going through security at the River Valley Juvenile Detention Center in Joliet around 11:30 a.m. Feb.

Officials at Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center recently welcomed a new cadre of medical staff officers, including a new President and President-Elect. Dennis Killian, M.D., a Board-certified cardiologist with Joliet based Heartland Cardiology, has been appointed President of the Medical Staff.