A Joliet police lieutenant put on leave last July for an ongoing city inspector general investigation was found in 2024 to have violated departmental policy by shooting at a fleeing vehicle, city records show.

A brief shelter in place order was issued to area residents on Friday morning when Joliet police executed a search warrant on the residence and arrested Reginald Rogers, 33, of Joliet.

On Wednesday afternoon, a Will County jury found Patrick Gleason, 63, guilty of killing Daniel Rios III, 52, who died in the shooting on March 9, 2018 at Izzy’s bar in Joliet.

Will County sheriff's deputies responded to reports of a shooting in the 1400 block of Elgin Avenue in Joliet Township on Tuesday.

A Will County judge was not persuaded a Joliet man acted in self-defense in the 2021 fatal shooting of a 17-year-old teen outside a laundromat.

The Kendall County Coroner’s Office has released the names of the couple who died by an apparent homicide shooting followed by a suicide this morning in Joliet, according to a preliminary investigation by police.

At 11:52 p.m. Monday, Joliet police officers on patrol near South Chicago Street and Fourth Avenue overheard possible gunshots, police said.

On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed

A Roselle man was found guilty Tuesday on all counts in the shooting of a woman in the head in July 2022 at a Roselle restaurant.

An ex-Marine smashed a pickup into a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church in Michigan, opened fire and set the building ablaze during a crowded Sunday service and then was fatally shot by police

A Villa Park man was in custody Saturday after pointing a loaded pistol at an Elmhurst resident outside the victim’s home, prosecutors announced.

The victim of a July 5 shooting in Plainfield told police as he was loaded into an ambulance, "I was set up," according to court records from Will County prosecutors.

A patron of Izzy’s bar in Joliet said in court on Friday that a Crest Hill man charged with killing a bartender said he would “shoot the place up” after he was told not to smoke at the establishment.

For the second time in two weeks a shooter on a rooftop inflicted death on the ground

Jurors in a Joliet murder trial were shown security camera videos on Wednesday depicting the fatal shooting of a bartender and the efforts by bar patrons to disarm the shooter.

A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding others before taking his own life, authorities said

A Joliet man has been charged with firing a gun in the direction of his ex-girlfriend and prosecutors alleged he endangered multiple people in the incident.

Alexander Kurtz sentenced to concurrent terms of 30 months of probation.

An assistant principal at Lincoln Middle School in Berwyn was one of three victims of a shooting that took place on Tuesday outside the school

A suspect is in custody in Shorewood after two homes were struck by gunfire Tuesday morning, including the residence of State Senator Meg Loughran Cappel.

A Joliet man faces multiple felony weapons charges after allegedly firing a handgun from a vehicle on Tuesday night, according to police

Closing arguments were held in the case a Joliet man charged with the 2021 first-degree murder of Diego Arriaga, 17, who was found shot to death in the parking lot of Blue Kangaroo laundromat in Joliet.

Shorewood Police were called to the scenes of shootings early Tuesday morning which left two homes damaged, but did not result in any injuries.

A large crowd gathered on the lawn of the Old Lee County Courthouse in Dixon on Friday evening, Sept. 12, 2025, to mourn the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk

Residents from across the Sauk Valley are gathering at the Old Lee County Courthouse at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, to mourn the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, 31, who was fatally shot Wednesday while speaking at a university event in Utah.

Officers responded to the 500 block of Bellarmine Drive East at 9 p.m. Wednesday for a report of shots fired in a parking lot, Joliet police said,

The shooting continued to draw swift bipartisan condemnation as Democratic officials joined Trump and other Republican allies of Kirk in decrying the attack

The sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk is believed to have jumped off a roof and fled into a neighborhood after firing one shot and has not been identified

The sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk is believed to have jumped off a roof and fled into a neighborhood after firing one shot and has not yet been identified, authorities said Thursday in disclosing they recovered a high-powered rifle

Authorities searched on Thursday for a sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, with one bullet and then slipped away amid the mayhem resulting from the latest act of political violence to befall America

Gory video of the shooting was available almost instantly online, from several angles, in slow-motion and real-time speed. Millions of people watched.

Republicans and Democrats alike swiftly condemned the attack

A dormitory at Benedictine University in Lisle was put on a shelter-in-place order late Tuesday night after someone reported seeing a student display a handgun.

Charlie Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a top podcaster, culture warrior and ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday during one of his trademark public appearances at a college in Utah. He was 31.

A Venezuelan national will remain in the Will County jail in a case where he’s charged with selling fake grenades during an undercover operation. 

A man accused of stealing THC cartridges from a teenager at gunpoint in Glen Ellyn in April 2020 pleaded guilty Monday.

A man is facing multiple felony charges after he was accused of selling fake grenades during an undercover operation in Will County.

A woman testified in court on Thursday she went to the police about the fatal shooting of a Joliet teen after she was told to get rid of the vehicle linked to the incident by a man charged with the teen’s death.

Officers conducting a traffic stop determined a 15-year-old passenger allegedly possessed loaded gun stolen from Alabama, police said.

Will County sheriff's deputies responded to the shooting on Tuesday in the 2300 block of East Exchange Street in Crete Township.

A Will County judge will decide whether a Joliet man committed first-degree murder or was acting in self-defense during a 2021 incident where a teen was shot and killed.

The violence this time was deadlier than last Labor Day, when seven people were killed and more than 20 were wounded

The Diocese of Joliet has issued a response to the deadly shooting at a Catholic School mass in Minnesota, and says it plans to review school safety policies with principals.

Two national gun rights organizations are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Cook County’s ban on assault-style weapons.

Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson said videos and writings the shooter left behind show that the shooter “expressed hate towards almost every group imaginable.”

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the shooter — armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol — approached the side of the church and shot dozens of rounds through the windows

The sentencing of Kevin Johnson in the 2020 murder of Charles "Charlie" Baird was delayed once again following an extended hearing on Monday.

Joliet police recovered several bullet casings at the scene.

Joliet police officials are still investigating why a Chicago man on parole from prison chose to burglarize a home occupied by a woman and her baby. The woman shot and killed the man when he broke inside the home.

Two homes and an unoccupied vehicle in Joliet were damaged by gunfire.