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Starting Monday, Joliet residents can go to the city website to view design ideas for a sculpture and vote for their favorite. Voting will end on Aug. 9.
Demolition of the old Joliet Catholic High School gym, now priced at $1.5 million, is expected to start in early August and be completed this year.
The city of Joliet Building Department offers tips on hiring contractors to fix storm damage.
Rock and Roll museum has no reopening date. JJC campus closed at least three weeks.
Will County creates self-reporting survey to aid in assessing impact of Monday night storm and tornadoes.
The Joliet City Council on Tuesday approved the system that's designed to spot oversized trucks in residential neighborhoods and other areas where they are not permitted.
Two transformers fell on a section of Interstate 55 south of Joliet as a result of Monday night's storms. Reopening still depends on state road inspectors giving the OK.
The Joliet Park District on Thursday plans to reopen the front nine holes of the Inwood Golf Course and four of the baseball fields at the Inwood Athletic Complex following this week's storms.
The closure of I-55 extended to both directions between Illinois Route 6 and River Road, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.
The school is located on the far west side of Joliet, and the damage marks one more example of the scattered impact of the storm across the city.
Forest Park also sustained damage from falling trees.
Police have been to site 31 times since 2015, including body found July 2, fire in February, and trespasser injured in fall a year ago.
City Council votes Tuesday on $156,000 leased system aimed at detecting wayward trucks.
Staff has opened a pop-up location near the downtown museum at the University of St. Francis Art Gallery, 25 E. Van Buren St.
Joliet is eying a mobile unit that could be deployed around town much like the digital speed warning signs that police use in areas where speeding becomes a problem.