Will County communities are bracing for another round of severe thunderstorms on Wednesday even as they are still cleaning the debris from last week’s derecho. 

Traffic is expected to be backed-up in Batavia on June 16-17 as road crews work on asphalt restoration on a popular thoroughfare.

The St. Charles Police Department is asking the public to avoid the area around the Charlestowne Mall as a multi-agency safety training exercise is underway.

Traffic is expected to back up in the area west of Geneva starting June 17 as workers reconstruct a railroad crossing along a busy roadway.

Construction will begin on Illinois 84 in Carroll County on Monday, June 15. The 10-mile work zone is from Doty Road south of Savanna to the Whiteside County line.

The parade will close State Street between Thornton Street and Division Street in Lockport starting at 5 p.m. on Friday before the parade begins at 6 p.m.

Short-term road closures may be required throughout St. Charles as public works crews ramp up the city’s 2026 Roadway Resurfacing Project. Construction for the project is expected to last from June through late November.

The Illinois Department of Transportation said bridge repairs will begin Friday and end in July.

A section less than a block long will be closed to provide access for a crane.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office joined forces with state and local law enforcement and highway safety partners in a Memorial Day traffic safety campaign.

The Ruby Street bridge was down for five hours on Tuesday morning.

Will County communities begin cleanup of debris and clearing trees from roads after Wednesday's storms as many residents and businesses remain without power.

The Lockport Chamber of Commerce said the decision was made due to the forecast for severe weather and unfavorable conditions on Thursday.

Two drivers were injured in a head-on car crash at the intersection of routes 47 and 176 in Woodstock, causing a portion of Route 47 to be closed for about an hour, officials report.

Plans for hundreds of new homes near Route 31 and Veterans Parkway in McHenry continue to be tweaked - and IDOT says it will put a traffic signal up at that intersection.

Four vehicles that were part of the HOT ROD Power Tour were stolen in Joliet and one of the vehicles was found in Dolton after a crash, police said. 

After a water main break in a subdivision in Yorkville a few weeks ago, the city is gearing up for an infrastructure overhaul. Workers are replacing older pipes around Illinis Route 126 and also along Game Farm Road and the Beecher Center area.

The Illinois Department of Transportation announced June 8 that it will be shutting off roadway lights on the U.S. 52 Mississippi River Bridge in Carroll County and U.S. 30 Mississippi River Bridge in Whiteside County.

Drivers in Batavia should expect traffic delays as construction crews close lanes of a busy thoroughfare.

The downtown bridge was shut down for five hours beause of a soiled sensor.

The campaign, aimed at aimed at increasing seat belt use and keeping roads safe during one of the busiest travel periods of the year, ran from May 15 to May 26.

An employee at The UPS Store in Shorewood was pinned underneath a vehicle that crashed through the front of the store, police said.

The city of Yorkville applied for and received a Local Project Funding grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Work recently started on the construction of a roundabout at Wolfs Crossing and Douglas Road in Oswego as part of a continuing effort to improve safety and ease traffic congestion along the road.

A hazardous materials spill from a large diesel truck’s fuel tank resulted in several lanes of Illinois Route 31 being temporarily closed in West Dundee while authorities worked on containing the pollution to prevent further damage.

A Scott Street resurfacing project in downtown Joliet will start Friday and run until August.

The truck stop, which has parking for 91 trucks. is located off Interstate 80 at the Briggs Street interchange.

An Indiana man may serve about a year and eighth months for driving drunk in a 2023 crash that led to a woman’s death and caused serious injuries to other passengers.

Leisure time along walking and running paths is devolving into an exercise of avoidance of motorized scooters and bikes within Kankakee County.

Yorkville is debating how many 200-year-old oak trees to cut down along Blackberry Oaks Golf Course as part of its Kennedy Road expansion project to accommodate the growing Grande Reserve subdivision.

The driver of a fleeing vehicle was transported to a hospital Monday night in Morris after Morris Police officers attempted to make a traffic stop at about 8:45 p.m. on Twilight Drive.

The Will County Sheriff's department announced more than 50 traffic citations over the Memorial Day weekend, including eight DUIs.

The temporary closure of Millsdale Road at the Union Pacific railroad crossing in Joliet will begin at 12 a.m. on Monday.

The campaign is aimed at increasing seat belt use and keeping roads safe during one of the busiest travel periods of the year.

Illinois Route 53 will be reduced from two lanes to one in both directions between Schweitzer and Hoff roads for the duration of the project.

Sterling is preparing for the return of the Big Boy 4014 steam locomotive and, with it, is issuing guidance on where visitors can park.

If planning on driving on I-80 through Joliet over the next four weekends, plan for lane closures and delays.

This lawsuit is taking aim at the 540-acre Project Steel and its 16 two-story warehouses to be built over a 20-year construction period along the Eldamain Road corridor in Yorkville.

Both directions of Centerpoint Way at Laraway Road are reopened in Joliet, Joliet police said.

Illinois State Police are investigating a crash on the Frontage Road to Arsenal Road off Interstate 55, near the Exxon Mobile refinery in Channahon.

Plainfield will receive a $250,000 Safe Routes to School grant this year through IDOT to improve sidewalks.

Part of Route 47 in Kane County will be getting resurfaced starting next week.

There are approximately 38 accidents per year on Ridge Road in the five-mile stretch from Caton Farm Road to Plainfield Road, the Kendall County Highway Department said.

One person suffered life-threatening injuries, and two others suffered serious injuries that were not life threatening in a five-vehicle traffic crash on Tuesday in Kendall County.

Despite gas prices above $5 a gallon, AAA expects to see 45 million Americans journey 50 miles or more over the extended Memorial Day weekend.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office is joining law enforcement agencies across Illinois for the 2026 “Click It or Ticket” campaign running May 15 through May 26 during the Memorial Day travel period.

Lane closures along Kirk Road near St. Charles are expected to delay drivers, as the railroad works on improving a roadway crossing. A detour has been posted to direct people away from the construction zone.

An attorney for a Wilmington man charged with a felony traffic violation that led to a crash that killed an Illinois State Police trooper was given more time to discuss his client’s options.

Officers and sheriff’s deputies are conducting high-visibility enforcement day and night, focusing on seat belt violations. Motorists who fail to buckle up can expect to be stopped and ticketed.

The meeting on Wednesday is part of the Phase One Study on proposed improvements to the 9.3-mile segment of Wilmington-Peotone Road near Manhattan.