Shorewood, IL Patch

11/20/2025

Rosemaria DiBenedetto has been named Manhattan's Village Administrator. She'll leave her role with the City of Joliet, the mayor said.

11/20/2025

Police told Patch that Spencer has been missing since June, but was reported missing by out-of-town family on Monday.

Remy Spencer is 5-foot-5 and 105 pounds, with green eyes with brown hair, Joliet police said.

11/20/2025

“I think we have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have,” said the Chicago-born Leo. “If people are in the United States illegally, there are ways to treat that. There are courts, there’s a system of justice.”

"I think we have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity," the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV said.

11/20/2025

WOMAN SET ON FIRE: A man is facing federal terrorism charges after officials say he doused a woman on a train in gasoline and ignited it. "This horrific attack was not just a barbaric assault on an innocent woman riding a train, but an act of terrorism," the U.S. attorney said. Full story at the link in the comments. (📷: Chicago Transit Authority/U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois via AP)

11/19/2025

Sen. Tammy Duckworth said that "neither I nor my leadership team was aware of, authorized or directed" the impersonation.

11/19/2025

"Obviously, the village has known for a very long time," Village President Ryan Kauffman said.

11/19/2025

Joliet police are asking for the public's help locating a missing 34-year-old woman "may be in a vulnerable state." Full story is at the link in the comments.

11/19/2025

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11/19/2025

After months of speculation about a mystery grocery store, a local mayor announced a Trader Joe's is coming to town — but the location remanis unknown. Full story at the link in the comments.

11/19/2025

The order requires Immigration and Customs Enforcement to place a subset of 615 people arrested by federal immigration officials during the operation into "alternatives to detention" programs or be released on bond while the judge determines whether they were illegally arrested, in violation of a 2022 court settlement that limited warrantless immigration arrests.

U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Cummings said he is reviewing for potential violations of a consent decree.

11/19/2025

A U.S. Senator from Illinois has fired a staffer after he was accused of impersonating an attorney in an attempt to get an Illinois restaurant owner out of ICE detention. Full story at the link in the comments. (📷: AP Photo/Talia Sprague)

11/19/2025

These Illinois restaurants are among the best in the country, according to reviews from diners on OpenTable.