The Herald-News - Shaw Local (2024)

On May 16, members of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Illinois (ACEC-IL) organized a competitive engineering activity to 27 students in Stephen Rummel’s sixth-grade science class at Gompers Junior High School in Joliet.

Lincoln-Way West dropped two regular season games to Lincoln-Way Central and the Warriors were struggling early in the third matchup on Wednesday. But the Warriors snapped out of it in time to collect a 5-2 win and advance to the title game of the Providence Class 4A Sectional.

Emerald Drive will be closed for approximately 10 weeks, the city of Joliet said Wednesday.

What started with a group of Star Wars fans and youth librarians in the early 2010s, blossomed into the epic event it is today.

The mobile food pantry event will be held from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday in the parking lot of Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital's Joliet Community Based Outpatient Clinic, 1201 Eagle St., Joliet.

After almost three weeks, seniors displaced from the Joshua Arms Senior Residences in Joliet have been given approval to return to their apartments.

The remains of Pfc. Bryan Myers, killed in action in 1950, were recently identified and will be buried at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood. The Joliet Police Department will provide an escort from Fred C. Dames Funeral Home to the cemetery.

A 2014 vehicle driven by Angelo Lujano-Pagliuca, 25, left the roadway and struck a tree, police said. Troopers responded to the incident about 2 a.m. on Sunday.

This may be the end of the year for the Celtics following a 4-0 loss to Peoria Notre Dame in the Class 2A Kankakee Super-Sectional, but the future looks brighter than ever.