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One day after ads seeking replacement workers for striking Joliet Caterpillar workers were removed from electronic billboards in the city, Joliet Mayor Tom Giarrante was out walking the p...

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Sandy Johnson was hoping to unseat State Sen. A.J. Wilhelmi in the November election. But in February, after seven years in the Illinois Senate, Wilhelmi resigned to accept a job with the...

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Republicans from across the state meet this weekend at the Tinley Park Convention Center to make key party calls for the upcoming presidential election and for the years that follow. ...

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Updated at 4:38 a.m. May 9. A local Democratic contender for a new Illinois House of Representatives seat is facing a domestic battery charge. Natalie Manley, 50, a Joliet accou...

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It was pretty mild as far as political blunders go. After having read the entire transcript, I thought the statement was awkward, but not offensive. Of course, had I been Ann Romney, I ma...

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Too busy last week to stay up to date on all the news happening in and around Bolingbrook? Not to worry. Patch has your back. In case you missed them, here were some of the top headl...

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Democrat Natalie Manley, a Joliet accountant and political newcomer, ran uncontested in Tuesday’s primary, but Republicans Bob Kalnicky and Janet Silosky battled it out to see who would o...

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With more than 3,200 votes separating him from his next closest competitor, Plainfield Village Trustee Garrett Peck was the hands-down winner in his bid to be the Republican nominee for t...