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A man was found fatally shot Saturday night in suburban Joliet, according to Joliet police.

A man died after driving into a retention pond Thursday in suburban Joliet.

Police are investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy after he apparently found an unsecured gun inside of a TV stand and fired it inside of a home Wednesday morning. Police say the boy was home with his father at the time of the shooting, and found a loaded gun inside of a TV stand in the living room. The…

Police are investigating after a 2-year-old boy was found shot to death inside his family’s home in Joliet Wednesday morning. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen has the tragic details.

A boy was found shot and killed behind a laundromat in Joliet Saturday morning, according to authorities.

A former Joliet teacher, who was accused of engaging in “inappropriate communication with a minor,” has been released on bond following his hospitalization, authorities said.

A former Joliet teacher, who was accused of engaging in “inappropriate communication with a minor” did not fulfill employment requirements at St. Joseph Catholic School in Lockport, the Diocese of Joliet said Friday.

A former Joliet grade school teacher, who was accused of engaging in “inappropriate communication with a minor” and was subsequently criminally charged, has been hospitalized, according to law enforcement.

Joliet police on Friday were searching for a teacher who was accused of misconduct with a child after investigators say he showed up at a McDonald’s to meet an individual he thought was a 15-year-old boy. Jeremy Hylka, 44, was charged with traveling to meet a child and grooming. According to police, Hylka had been communicating online with a man…

Police in Joliet on Friday were searching for a teacher who has been charged with misconduct involving a child. NBC C 5’s Vi Nguyen reports.

Police are looking for a man wanted for an attempted robbery at a fast food restaurant Friday in suburban Joliet.

One police department in the southwest suburbs is going through some major changes, including the ascension of a new interim police chief following the death of Eric Lurry, who died while in police custody in Jan. 2020. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen has the story.

A man shot and killed by Joliet police late Tuesday night was holding a BB gun, and investigators now believe that he was the one who had called 911 in the minutes before the shooting took place. According to Joliet authorities, police were called to the scene in the 800 block of 2nd Avenue at approximately 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, with…

A man shot and killed by Joliet police late Tuesday night was holding a BB gun, and investigators now believe that he was the one who had called 911 in the minutes before the shooting took place. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

Officers fatally shot a person in suburban Joliet Tuesday evening, according to police.

Residents of a neighborhood in suburban Joliet recounted a shooting Tuesday evening in which one witness said she saw police shoot a man, hearing more than a dozen gunshots, with another saying she saw officers performing CPR on a person on the ground. Lisa Chavarria reports.

A Joliet police officer was arrested and is being charged with two counts of official misconduct after he allegedly used a police laptop to download footage of the arrest of Eric Lurry, a Black man who died in police custody earlier this year. According to a press release from the Joliet Police Department, Sgt. Javier Esqueda was taken into custody…

More videos have been released in the death of a man in the custody of Joliet police earlier this year. The videos provide more details of what happened the night that Eric Lurry died after being taken into custody by Joliet police. The police department is not commenting publicly on the situation, but released new footage Tuesday to provide a…

More videos have been released in the death of a man in the custody of Joliet police earlier this year. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter has the story.

Friends and family of a Joliet man who died hours after he was taken into police custody in January continue to push for answers surrounding his death. Protesters rallied on Sunday in Joliet as friends and family took to the streets to demand answers surrounding Eric Lurry’s death after a controversial video surfaced showing what happened to him in...