Felix Sarver

A Will County judge ordered the jail release of a man charged with a 2017 murder at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse but he suspended his court order to give prosecutors time to appeal his decision.

Firefighters with six agencies in Will and Grundy counties received state grant funding to purchase small firefighting and ambulance equipment.

A judge granted default judgment after Salem Village Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Joliet failed to respond to a lawsuit filed against them over the death of a resident who was attacked by another resident.

A Lockport man allegedly armed with a gun had ordered four painters he hired to go into his bedroom, where he accused them of stealing a jewelry box, police said.

Will County prosecutors said a Joliet man approached an inmate at the jail and asked him to kill a confidential informant in a 2017 felony gun case.

A Lockport man was charged with public indecency after he allegedly exposed himself to a woman on her doorbell camera. A warrant said the man is unemployed and had prior threats to fight the police.

A Plainfield man allegedly contacted a woman more than 700 times on her cellphone and her workplace between March 3 and March 13. Prosecutors alleged the man is defiant of the police and court orders.

Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said the victim in the case should be "commended for his courage in speaking up about the abuse." Quinton Jenkins will serve 85% of a 23-year prison sentence.

A 21-year-old man in Joliet was shot in the arm as he was out walking near Water and Munroe streets, police said.

Judge Dave Carlson will decide Monday whether Jeremy Boshears should be released from jail ahead of a second murder trial.

A Joliet man was identified by prosecutors as one of the shooters on the Joliet side of Theodore Street who was likely returning fire from an initial shooting from suspects at Merichka's restaurant, court records show.

The Will County case against a Crestwood man charged with killing a Lockport woman and her baby in 2020 has been set for trial in late September, court records show.

Police have made another arrest of a suspect allegedly involved in the shooting that damaged three businesses in Joliet and Crest Hill, including Merichka's restaurant.

After spending more than a month in jail, a man was released when a Will County judge determined he was not charged with an offense eligible for detention under the SAFE-T Act.

A man who went missing in Joliet was found dead in a river and detectives are working to unravel the circumstances behind his death, police officials said.