Annual ecological festival at JJC is green and growing

JOLIET — What started as a tiny grass-roots ecology festival five years ago has grown like a weed with roots spreading throughout Will County. GR2012 on Saturday at Joliet Junior College promises an exciting and jam-packed day of speakers, films, vendors, exhibits and entertainment capped …Read More

• Police: Girl, 11, dies after being pulled from Bolingbrook pond

  BOLINGBROOK -- An 11-year-old girl pulled from a pond behind an elementary school Tuesday evening in Bolingbrook has died, police said. Bolingbrook police and fire crews first responded to the 1400 block of Raven Avenue near Pioneer Elementary School about 5:30 p.m. on reports that …Read More

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