A former psychiatric patient from Crest Hill is charged threatening to burn a mental health facility to the ground with a technician inside after he was upset about the investigation of his claim against her.

Two years after Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail, the Trump administration is threatening to revoke federal funding from local and state governments that allow cashless bail.The Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice condemned the action.

During James Glasgow’s discussion in a recent podcast interview on the SAFE-T Act, he briefly spoke about his office’s struggle with whether a sheriff’s lieutenant’s fatal shooting was negligent or reckless.

The Tri-County Auto Theft Task Force recovered about $750,000 worth of stolen property at a business in Gurnee following a multi-agency investigation that began in Joliet.

A Joliet man has been charged with driving under the influence in a Plainfield Township crash that injured a Will County sheriff’s deputy.

A Joliet man faces two counts of possession of child sex abuse materials, a Class 2 felony, according to the Illinois State Police

A special prosecutor has been reviewing a case where a Will County Sheriff’s Office correctional deputy was alleged to have used “excessive force while on duty,” court records show.

Will County correctional officer Daniel Herod is still employed, but sheriff's spokesman says office plans to terminate deputy arrested by Homeland Security.