Joliet Public Schools District 86 is the third largest elementary school district in Illinois, serving 9,161 students.

Roughly two blocks will be closed for fiber optics repair on Monday and Tuesday along Ottawa Street, the city said.

Disturbing details of the deadly shooting of a Joliet mother and her 4-year-old son were revealed in court documents as the accused shooter was denied pre-trial release.

Dozens of Chicago suburbs have flipped to majority nonwhite, changing schools and Main Streets across the region.

One week after a Joliet sign-making business burned down, the owner was personally delivering orders to his customers until he can rebuild.

Black, while Burbank and Franklin Park are now majority-Latino, according to a WBEZ analysis of new census data.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man faces multiple counts of first-degree murder in connection to the shooting deaths of a woman and her young son in Joliet ...

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Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks, flanked by New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, pauses while speaking during a news conference at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City Dec. 18, 2025, after Pope Leo XIV ...

The Archdiocese of New York has a new leader. Pope Leo XIV on Thursday made his most important U.S. appointment to date, naming a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the ...

Bishop Ronald A. Hicks of Joliet, Ill., is pictured during the 2018 fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. Credit: OSV News photo/CNS file, Bob Roller Pope Leo ...

Bishop Ron Hicks, head of the Diocese of Joliet, appears to be poised to be named the next archbishop of New York. Catholic media, the New York Post, and local Catholics are reporting that Hicks is ...