A car crashed into a light pole and then into a Joliet residence along Larkin Avenue on Friday.

A bill pending in Springfield would ease the way for Will County to get land for 143rd Street construction in Homer Township, but some county board members are trying to slow it down.

Joliet, Crest Hill, Shorewood, Romeoville, Minooka and Channahon will celebrate start of 60-mile pipeline for Lake Michigan water at Chicago event.

A New Lenox man using a dating service spoke with someone he believed was an adult woman until her purported father claimed she was a minor and demanded money, otherwise he would report him, police said.

The Bicentennial Bluffs Neighborhood Association in Joliet will hold its a annual spring community cleanup. Volunteers will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at the St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church gym.

Shorewood resident Jacquie Secrest has been named Morris Hospital’s Fire Starter of the Month for her role as a Service Excellence Liaison.