Coal City News

Larry Lindholm , activity director at Sunny Hill Nursing Home of Will County, gave a pair of presentations at the 2008 Midwest Symposium on Therapeutic Recreation and Adapted Physical Education.

Carraig Irish Pub: Live music at 9:30 p.m. Fridays and 10 p.m. Saturdays. No cover charge.

About 100 residents were evacuated from their homes for about five hours Monday morning after a construction crew broke a gas line.

An Illinois State Police trooper is recovering in a Joliet hospital Monday after being injured by a suspect attempting to flee a drug arrest Sunday on I-55. About 4:15 Sunday, the trooper initiated a traffic ...

A man fell headfirst 25 feet onto a barge floor late Thursday morning without any visible injuries, said Morris fire Chief Bob Coleman.

Deputy Chief Frank Schmitt, today is your day -- literally. In honor of Schmitt retiring from the Grundy County Sheriff's department after 35 years of service, the county board designated today Frank Schmitt ...

DANCING Dance Connection: Ballroom dance club in St. Charles. Singles and couples welcome from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoons at St.

There's something about an old tractor rumbling down a street that can make a grown man cry.

Six months after the Grundy County Highway Department building caught fire, the county is well on its way to recovery and using the disaster to better other departments.

Householders are finding the cost of disposing their garbage is on the rise. Not by much, though, as the increase is less than $5 a year on the basic rate.

The Will-Grundy Genealogical Society will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 14, at the Coal City Public Library, 85 N. Garfield St.

A tribute to people of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, who lost their lives when the town was destroyed by the Nazis during World War II.

Church garage sale: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 7, Immanuel United Church of Christ Women's Fellowship, 311 W. Corning Ave., Peotone.

Fish fry: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays, American Legion Post 1080, 2625 Ingalls Ave., Joliet.

Residents and street crews spent Saturday clearing downed trees following Friday's severe storm that dumped 1.71 inches of rain and hail on Mazon.

Steelmen 5K run: Noon June 1, Chicagoland Speedway. Benefiting Will County Child Advocacy Center.

If you want a house that's built right, buy one built by students. If that statement doesn't sound right to you, then you aren't familiar with the 19 houses Grundy Area Vocational Center building trades ...

Country and western: Classes run from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursdays. At New Lenox Veterans of Foreign Wars, 323 Old Hickory Road.

Morris Daily Herald report : 'A free landline phone bill analysis clinic will be at the Godley Park District, 500 S. Kankakee St., Godley, on Friday, May 30 The clinic is sponsored by State Representative ...

“Nicor feels that it is part of our social responsibility not to just be a good citizen in the business setting, but to also give back to the locations that reside in our service territories”

So great was the response to Nicor's 12th annual Volunteer Day that Joliet added an extra work site. via Lincoln-Way Sun