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The Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce & Industry has once again joined nearly fifty Chambers across the state in urging the Illinois Legislature to provide additional economic and regulatory relief for businesses. Chambers All In for Economic Recovery is...

Another Illinois Lotto player became a millionaire overnight - making it the third $1 million Lotto winner in the past two weeks! The winning Lotto ticket was purchased at Stop 24 Liquors in Bolingbrook and matched all six Lotto Million 1 numbers in the Thursday, January 27 drawing: 26-29-33-41-44-50.

Will County Center for Community Concerns Inc. in partnership with Joliet Township will offer FREE Volunteer Income Tax Assistance starting February 2022 and ending April 2022 if you earned less than $56,000 last year. Due to COVID documents will be...

Joliet Township High School is proud to announce that the Joliet West High School Boys Bowling Team won the title of Third Place IHSA State Boys Bowling Champions at the 2022 IHSA Boys Bowling State Championship on Saturday, January 29, 2022, at St. Clair Bowl in O’Fallon, Illinois.

Joliet Township High School Students of the Month are nominated and selected based on character, responsibility, and academic performance or improvement.

Stop NorthPoint LLC will be hosting its first Bingo Night on Saturday Feb 5th at 4:00 PM at Stone City VFW Post 2199 in Joliet. Silent auction, games & prizes, meet & greet, bingo, and dinner. Stop NorthPoint lead attorney, Bob Fioretti, will be in attendance.

The job fair will be held from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 25 in the Community Room of the Frankfort Township Office, 11000 W. Lincoln Highway, Frankfort. It will include representatives from a variety of employers, including National Tube Supply, Michaels Distribution, PACE Suburban Bus, FedEx Ground, Silver Cross Hospital, Sunny Hill Nursing Home, Trinity Services, Inc, Walgreens, and the Will County Clerk’s office to speak with people about current job openings

Currently, Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting a total of 2,589,640 cases, including 29,099 deaths, in 102 counties in Illinois. The age of cases ranges from younger than one to older than 100 years. As of last week, 7,320 individuals in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 1,148 patients were in the Intensive Care Unit and 657 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators. Updated data analysis shows almost 90% of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Illinois are unvaccinated.

According to the White House, studies have shown that the monthly payments have helped significantly reduce child poverty and child hunger across the country. The White House said the program would have had the potential to cut child poverty in half. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that more than 21 million Americans didn't have enough to eat in early December, which was a five-month high.

THE CHICAGO DEFENDER — John Lewis was 25 when he marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten by state troopers who fractured his skull. The Greensboro sit-ins at the Woolworth’s lunch counter were led...