A Will County judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of a key witness who failed to appear in court in the case against John Paul Resedean, 45, who is charged with grooming and indecent solicitation of a child.

Joliet Park District has implemented “updated controls” and internal reporting to ensure an incident where a past finance director stole from them does not happen again, according to the executive director.

A Will County judge will decide May 5 on whether a Plainfield Township man is guilty of the 2018 first-degree murder of his girlfriend whom prosecutors said was brutally beaten to death in Romeoville.

A Plainfield woman has been charged with multiple felonies after a police investigation alleges she engaged in sexual conduct with a minor in Yorkville.

A Plainfield business reported paying $3,500 to help it be reinstated to Facebook, plus a $50 wire transfer fee to a Batavia bank. But the business never got a refund or back on Facebook, the owner says.

A former Joliet school teacher facing felony charges of grooming and indecent solicitation of a student violated his position of trust in the “most abhorrent fashion conceivable,” said Joliet’s police chief.

George Hooper, 42, of Plainfield Township, is on trial on a charge of the July 23, 2018 first-degree murder of his girlfriend, Jennifer Underhill, 42, of Rochelle.

An Indiana woman has been charged with criminal neglect of a child with a disability who died in 2023 in Bolingbrook. The charges alleged she did not provide adequate nutrition to the child.

A Plainfield Township man is on trial for the 2018 first-degree murder of his girlfriend who died in a “brutal and devastatingly violent attack” in Romeoville, a prosecutor said.


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