A driver traveling through the east side of Joliet is expected to survive after he was shot in the head and leg by an “unknown pedestrian” in the area, police said. 

The sister of a Joliet woman who was murdered in 2023 told her killer in court on Tuesday that he is "an evil person with a dark soul."

A 74-year-old woman is expected to survive getting struck by a vehicle outside a Joliet Walmart and the driver who hit her remains under investigation, police said.

A Joliet man has been charged with threatening to come to Joliet City Hall with a handgun and shoot people, police said.

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 man in Joliet is expected to survive a gunshot wound to the groin, police said.

A Will County judge has set what she called a “firm trial date” in a 2018 murder case against a former Joliet teacher after telling attorneys the case has “taken entirely too long.”

A 2-year-old boy has been hospitalized in serious condition and a Wilmington man died following a semitrailer crash in Joliet.

Joliet police officers investigated an incident where a 20-year-old Family Dollar store employee was punched multiple times in the face.

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.

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.

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.

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 Will County prosecutor told the jury they will see evidence with their own eyes proving their case that a Crest Hill man committed the deadly 2018 shooting at a Joliet bar.

Two men in Joliet may have been shot from someone on a passing motorcycle, police 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.

Joliet police officers are investigating two separate shootings that occurred on Vine Street and Des Plaines Street in the past week.

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.

Federal officials have yet to disclose whether they’ve been involved in reports of immigration enforcement activity in Joliet, including one that was alleged to have occurred at the Will County Courthouse.

The 44-year-old man who suffered multiple stab wounds in Joliet has been hospitalized in serious condition but his injuries are not considered life threatening, police said.

Joliet police detectives have identified a person of interest in the investigation of an armed robbery last Saturday at Circle K gas station.

A Kankakee County judge will preside over a lawsuit case filed by the former Joliet mayor who claims he was the victim of a conspiracy that led to his election loss.

A 28-year-old Joliet man died Friday afternoon after his car collided with a tractor-trailer on South Chicago Street (Illinois Route 53), according to Joliet police.

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,

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.

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.

Two 9 mm bullets were found on the floor of a classroom at Joliet Central High School but officers who responded did not find any weapons or other “concerning items,” school officials said.

A Joliet police spokesman said a man was wanted for a case in Chicago. The specifics of the case and the warrant were "unknown," he said.

Alfonso Sanchez issued the statement Thursday after the Joliet police board approved his termination this week.

No one was injured in Friday afternoon incident on Ann Street, Joliet police said.

Raymond D. Martinez, 33, was arrested after leading police on a chase in a stolen vehicle, crashing into another car and briefly prompting nearby schools to go on lockdown, according to Joliet police.

Joliet police recovered several bullet casings at the scene.

A Joliet man remains at large on charges accusing him of driving under the influence of alcohol in a crash that caused injury to another driver and his 2-year-old daughter.

The City Council votes Tuesday whether to create the position, and city officials said they are already talking with one of the top people in the field for the job.

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.

A 19-year-old driver was issued traffic citations following a crash in Joliet that caused a semitrailer to overturn and spill its large haul of rock, police said.

A Joliet man was sentenced to 23 years in prison after he was convicted of the 2019 first-degree murder of his grandmother by setting her home on fire. 

A Crest Hill man is facing more than 20 felony charges across two cases filed in Will County after he was accused of unlawfully possessing three handguns and baggies containing cocaine and fentanyl. 

No one was hurt during the emergency landing at about 5:14 p.m. near McDonough Street and on the edge of the Inwood Golf Course.

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

Joliet police K-9 Officer Daniel Willis, a 20-year veteran of the department, died unexpectedly Monday, Aug. 12, the department said.

At least two arrests were made following a gun bust operation in Will County where members of a Venezuelan transnational gang made an appearance, prosecutors said.

Joliet police Lt. Jeremy Harrison was put on leave during an investigation by the city's inspector general, city manager says.

A Joliet man charged with strangling a woman has been taken back to jail after a Will County judge revoked his pretrial release. 

The pretrial provision of the SAFE-T Act could have kept a man in jail and potentially prevented the escalation that led to a Joliet woman’s murder, according to an advocate for domestic violence victims.

A former teacher for the Diocese of Joliet has completed his two-and-half year probation in a case where he pleaded guilty to grooming someone he thought was a minor to engage in unlawful sexual conduct.