Celebrate summer’s final stretch with these Will County forest preserve programs

Storms knock out power to thousands of Will County ComEd customers

As of 6 p.m., Commonwealth Edison reported more than 26,500 customers were without power, mostly in the eastern half of the county.

Tangled Roots-owned Lock & Mule restaurant in downtown Lockport to close

Lock & Mule, which opened in 2021 at 1025 S State St. in Lockport, announced Monday this was its last week in business.

Storms dump heavy rain as flash flood warning issued for parts of Will, Kendall counties; 2-inch hail reported

Heavy thunderstorms prompted the National Weather Service to issue a Flash Flood Warning Monday afternoon for parts of Will and Kendall counties as torrential rain, large hail and damaging winds moved across the region

Coroner IDs Joliet husband, wife who died in apparent murder-suicide

The evidence developed thus far has led Joliet police to believe the husband killed his wife before taking his own life.

New assistant principals assigned to 6 Joliet District 86 schools

Joliet Public Schools District 86 has appointed six new assistant principals to its schools and reassigned two additional assistant principals to different schools going into the 2026-2027 academic year.