The New Lenox Police Department and Will County Sheriff's Office responded to a bomb threat at the home of Pope Leo XIV's brother Wednesday.

The Illinois Attorney General’s Office is reviewing a Joliet attorney’s claim that the state’s forfeiture law is unconstitutional and has led to abusive practices by Will County prosecutors.

The Will County Board was to vote Thursday on the Pride of the Prairie solar project that would spread through parts of Manhattan, Green Garden and Wilton townships.

A Plainfield Township man is on trial for the 2018 first-degree murder of his girlfriend who died in a “brutal and devastatingly violent attack” in Romeoville, a prosecutor said. 

D&K Pest Control and Wildlife Removal trapped several raccoons and then patched areas inside and outside the Joliet home, where the raccoons had entered.

The Will County Board has moved its Thursday meeting Clarion Hotel and Convention Center to accommodate huge public interest in a vote that may be delayed depending on judge's decision.

The 20-year-old victim was in critical condition, Joliet police said. They ask for information from the public.

Could a vote against solar send Will County Board members to jail? Prospect raised as local opposition against solar sprawl comes up against state law.

A teen has been arrested in connection with a shooting on Thursday night at a Joliet apartment complex that left two other teens in critical condition and a third with a gunshot wound to the hand.