A Will County judge allowed the jail release of a witness against a Lockport man charged with indecent solicitation of a child after his attorney said his absence from court was an “honest mistake.”

A judge on June 30 could change her decision granting a new trial for a woman serving a life sentence for the 2013 Joliet murders known as “Nightmare on Hickory Street.”

A judge allowed the jail release of a Romeoville woman charged with recklessly firing a gun in the direction of another woman near a Joliet bar.

Joliet police reported that officers found the victim in the front yard of a residence in the 200 block of Nicholson Street.

A firearm instructor from Frankfort has been charged with issuing a false concealed carry firearm training certification in exchange for $300.

A Bolingbrook man has been sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison for drug-induced homicide in Aurora. The man sold fentanyl pills to an Aurora man who died after ingesting one pill.

An Illinois National Guard staff sergeant from South Elgin has been charged in Will County with official misconduct by looking up someone’s license plate for no “official purpose.”

Peter Strama, 22, was taken to the jail on Thursday after his arrest by the Will County Sheriff’s Office.

A judge found a Plainfield Township man guilty of the first-degree murder of a girlfriend who was brutally beaten to death in 2018 in Romeoville.