Bob Okon

The city wants Joliet residents to conserve water with rain barrels.

Blues Brothers Con at the Old Joliet Prison is not happening this year. Instead, plans are being made for a "Blues Brothers Screening" on the 45th anniversary year of the movie's release.

The Joliet Hall of Pride induction ceremony for “community champions” will be Aug. 14. Reservation deadline is Friday.

Joliet OKs beer sales at new Fry the Coop restaurant in Joliet.

The rally in downtown Joliet on Thursday drew more than 100 people, an older crowd that joined a nationally organized 'Good Trouble Lives On’ movement.

Mayor D'Arcy said Joliet needs more apartments if it wants a residency rule requiring newly hired workers to move into the city.

The Joliet Slammers will partner with Pabst beer to drop 2,600 packaged hot dogs to fans at the July 22 game. Tickets will be at a special price.

The fast-food giant already is renovating a former Arby's on Rt. 59 in Joliet and plans to take over another former Arby's on Jefferson Street as it maps out a return to the Chicago region.

The operating profit may have been the first in the theater's 99-year history, Executive Director Wade Welsh told the Joliet City Council on Monday.

One lane on Essington Road in Joliet will be closed through Friday.

A contract for supervisors in the Joliet Fire Department includes the same 50-mile rule allowing city workers to live outside Joliet.

City officials, family members and others gathered on Friday, July 11, 2025 for a ceremony to dedicate Albert Avenue in honor of Staff Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., who grew up on the Joliet street and died earlier this year during a training mission in Lithuania.

The accidents happened in sections of Orland Park and Tinley Park that are in Will County.

The family of Staff Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr. was joined by city officials and roughly 100 residents outside his boyhood home in Joliet for a ceremony dedicating Albert Avenue in his honor on Friday.

Joliet has provided nearly $210,000 so far to restaurants, bars and other small businesses to offset impact of construction from $20 million downtown improvement project.