Will County News

For the second time in four months, a littering smoker caused a fire at the Green Garden Country Club on Monee-Manhattan Road.

The presidential field has been paired from fifteen-plus candidates to just two.

A man has been found guilty of having sex with an inmate while working at the Will County Jail last summer.

In May, the lawyers representing Drew Peterson and his uncle asked a Will County judge to stop the court proceedings in Kathleen Savio's newly reopened probate case until a later date.

A 23-year-old man was killed Wednesday when his car crashed into a creek in the south suburbs, authorities said Thursday.

And you think the price of gas is criminal! On Sunday, a Will County deputy was called to assist a motorist who ran out of gas on Royal Worlington Drive.

A unique visitor to a suburban nature preserve has eluded officials - at least so far.

Visitors to a south suburban lake on Saturday found their much-sought-after peace interrupted by an unexpected visitor, an alligator lurking among the herons in the Will County rookery.

Pothole patrol has moved into Will County. Roads hammered by one of the most vicious winters in decades soon will be paid a visit by the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Warrants have been issued for two men accused of masterminding a Will County cockfighting ring.

The annual Will County Back to School Fair will be from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 7 at the University of St.

A committee has chosen a county engineer. Bruce Gould, 55, a civil engineer from Wesley Township and the current assistant county engineer, will take the job.

A narcotics investigation has led to the arrest of five people and the seizue of over a quarter of a million dollars worth of marijuana.

A 32-year-old Elgin man was the apparent victim of a fatal hit-and-run Tuesday morning on Interstate 55 near Joliet.

City officials will ask what to do next after losing an effort to stop Silver Cross Hospital from moving to New Lenox.

An Elgin man whose body was found on Interstate Highway 55 near Channahon early Wednesday was the victim of what appeared to be a hit-and-run, Will County Coroner Patrick O'Neil said.

A vehicle fatally struck a man walking on I-55 early Tuesday in southwest suburban Channahon, State Police said.

His attorneys contend Michael R. Vilim was working as an informant for Illinois State Police when he was arrested nearly two years ago in Bolingbrook on narcotics-trafficking charges.

They never pulled guns or fired any bullets, but seven reputed gang members have been charged with first-degree murder for an April 16 shooting that killed a Joliet man as he walked with his two young sons.

Seven Will County men have been charged with murder and mob action in a gang fight that led to the fatal shooting of a Joliet father walking with his two boys in April, authorities said Thursday.