Bob Okon

Ohio-based Redwood Apartment Neighborhoods has developed 13,000 units in seven states.

Volunteers of America Illinois wants to build 42 apartments to provide residences and services for women recovering from opioid addictions.

Monday also is the last day for the "Our Community, Your Experience" exhibit that includes the work of local black artists.

Joliet created an inspector general role in 2016 that has been handled in staff. Now an outside firm will be hired. But who and how?

The City Council met in a special workshop meeting to hear more details about costs, construction and potential partners in the water project being designed for the next 100 years.

Waste Management pick-ups will stay the same all week, but City Hall will be closed and downtown parking free on the holiday.

The reopening of the Joliet drawbridge is delayed again as IDOT says more issues will stretch maintenance into late February.

Joliet Logistics Park wants to continue development of its 298-acre site at Route 53 and Millsdale Road but needs approvals that the Joliet City Council has not been giving.

Joliet plans to hire an outside law firm or lawyer to serve as inspector general and meet what city officials say is a new state requirement for the role.

The city decided a year ago to connect with Chicago for Lake Michigan water, and the meeting will provide a progress update on the project.

Joliet is using a $35,000 from the National Park Service Underrepresented Communities Grant Program to hire a consultant that would prepare a nomination to make the 180-acre former Joliet Correctional Center a National Register Historic District.

Joliet City Manager James Capparelli said his COVID-19 symptoms have been mild and he's been fully vaccinated.

The Will County Clerk's office provides nominating petition packets and candidate information for the upcoming election.

The waivers and moratorium were part of emergency COVID-19 pandemic measures put in place by the city in March 2020.

Joliet City Council Bettye Gavin voted for city manager a year ago warning she's be 'watching' him and switched vote last month when Capparelli's contract was renewed.