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With the high school sports seasons still suspended in Illinois and the poor play from the Bulls and Bears and abbreviated college football seasons, there has not been much for local fans to cheer about. Welcome college basketball. Locally, Joliet Jr. College, the University of St. Francis and Lewis University all have area athletes on the men's and women's basketball rosters. There are also a plethora of local talents playing across the nation at the Division-I level....
An astounding 16 million Americans served in World War II in the mid 1940s and of those, only roughly 325,000 are still alive. Among those is Donald J. Breen, a proud veteran of WWII who turned 100 years old in August. Celebrating Breen's legacy has been a challenge for family, friends and the staff at the Timbers of Shorewood where he resides. Originally, a large party was planned, but was derailed when the COVID-19 pandemic locked down the country in March. Then a birthday...
Crest Hill Police Chief Ed Clark said Thursday morning that they are "progressing very nicely with the investigation and are gathering more information." Clark is asking for the community to come forward with information or video evidence. "We believe that part or all of the incident may have been recorded on cell phone video by witnesses," he said. Anyone with those videos or any other information can send in to Crest Hill Police Sergeant Jason Opiola at JOpiola@cityofcresthi...
Roughly a year ago, the city of Crest Hill did a survey in which it polled its residents on a direction looking for a direction for rebranding the city. I understand I am a little late to be counted for the survey, but as a longtime resident, I have a suggestion. How about, Crest Hill – A city of hypocrisy. Then we need a motto. I got it – "Not only is the grass greener on the other side; it's taller, too." Catchy, I know, but what is important is that it is sincere and rea...
It is said that those who live in glass houses, should not throw stones. MSNBC reporter Cal Perry learned that the hard way on Memorial Day when Bolingbrook resident Andy Olson called him out on the streets of Lake Geneva, Wis. The video has gone viral with millions of views over many different platforms and was even retweeted by Donald Trump, Jr. During his report, Perry, who was wearing a mask, talked about people on the streets not wearing masks to protect themselves from...
Several protesters called for the resignation of Joliet Mayor Bob O'Dekirk as he attended a Black Lives Matter rally on the corner of Larkin Avenue and Jefferson Street Tuesday. On Sunday night as rioting and looting took place around the city, O'Dekirk was videotaped in a scuffle with two men, who were later forcibly arrested by Joliet Police. "I understand that everyone has to defend themselves – self-preservation is the first thing. But he put himself in that p...
A small group of peaceful protesters were turned away from demonstrating at Crest City Hall Tuesday night. The reason they were given was that Crest Hill Mayor Ray Soliman issued an emergency order to reinstate a curfew that had previously been lifted for the city. Crest Hill Police Officer Justin O'Brien calmly explained the situation to the group. "We didn't have the curfew until 10 minutes," he told the group. "(The mayor) has the power to put out an emergency order and he...
"I will see you in church," said Scott Greene as he sent supporters to their cars just before the skies opened with storms to close out the Reopen Illinois rally he organized on the corner of Rte. 59 and Black Road in Shorewood. The truck driver from Elwood was making reference to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's hesitance to reopen places of worship amidst the COVID-19 pandemic as the state nears Phase 3 of Pritzker's Restore Illinois plan – a plan that is moving too slow for many...
On the day that Joliet Junior College would have held its spring commencement, president Dr. Judy Mitchell instead announced Friday at a press conference held with the city of Joliet in the council chambers that the Fall semester will be conducted online with limited face-to-face student interaction. Mitchell announced that all fall lecture courses will be delivered online. Courses with a combination of lecture and lab will have lecture online and lab face-to-face – c...
On a day when Allie Quigley should have been preparing for the Euro League semifinals, she was instead filming a H-O-R-S-E competition that featured six players from the NBA and one other from her WNBA ranks. The competition aired on ESPN in a two-night event and saw Chicago Sky sharpshooter Quigley, a native of Joliet who starred at both Joliet Catholic Academy and DePaul University, win her first game against 10-time NBA All-Star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Chris...
“The one constant through all the years, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.” James Earl Jones said those words in the movie ‘Field of Dreams,’ the words rang true. Spring sports, led by America’s pastime has been the landscape of the warm weather months from the professional ranks down through high school for generations – until now. While...
Each summer, St. Joseph's Park in Joliet hosts events almost every Sunday, where local churches or other organizations host fundraisers. With bands, beer and bingo, the events have been a staple of the community for years and attract a large gathering each week. St. Joseph Parish announced on its Facebook Page today that because of COVID-19, it has decided to cancel all events for the 2020 season, citing the large crowds and lack of possible social distancing. "It is with...
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker officially cancelled the school year earlier this week, meaning the senior class of high schools all across the state will never again walk the halls of their schools as students. While graduation ceremonies and activities such as prom have not been cancelled many school administrators are doing their best to help the seniors through the abrupt end to their life as a student. At Plainfield East, the administrators got personal. East Principal Dr....
Saturday night, Chicago Street Bar and Grill in Joliet was supposed to be packed with laughter spilling out of the bar and money pouring in for the family of Owen Buell. The two-year-old from Joliet is fighting neuroblastoma and a quartet of Chicagoland comics had planned to kick off their "Smiles for Miles" tour by helping to raise money for Owen's fight. The event, however, is postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the comedians are taking the show digital to keep...
When the word came down to students at Joliet Catholic Academy that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker had closed all schools – public and private – because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was near the end of the day when seniors were either at the end of the day or had already left their lockers for what could be the very last time. There were no good-byes, no hugs and no tears – just empty hallways where the Class of 2020 was supposed to be planning for prom, training for spring sport...
After 3.5 hours of discussion from members of the Joliet City Council, directors of NorthPoint and the beginning of public comment, the council unanimously to suspend the public hearing until tomorrow. With nearly 300 members of the community that signed up for the call-in public comment section, the meeting is too much even for two sessions. The meeting will be called back to order at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning and will go until 11:30 a.m. at which council will break to allow for...
Following an extension of the shelter in place order by Gov. J.B. Pritzker until April 30, Joliet Mayor Bob O'Dekirk held a briefing in which he assured residents that, "The city of Joliet is not going to shut down." On April 2, O'Dekirk issued his second declaration of Local State of Emergency. The declaration gives the city new measures to handle local meetings, such as cancellation of non-essential committees, the moving of the pre-council meeting to the same day as the reg...
Mistwood Golf Club and McWethy's Tavern are a family run business, but just how large that family is has been illustrated in the last couple of weeks after Illinois Governor JB Pritzker closed of all dine-in restaurants in Illinois on March 17. The closure of the restaurant forced the elimination of jobs for many of the employees. "As soon as the order was given that restaurants had to close, there were no jobs for hourly employees. The jobs didn't exist and we take the...
Joliet mayor Bob O'Dekirk held a press conference Thursday to offer information to the community about the COVID-19 pandemic. O'Dekirk announced that city hall will be closed to the public, but that the city is not closing. "We will not have any interruption in city operations, but as is being confirmed, this illness is spread by person-to-person contact. We are going to protect the public and our staff by limiting that person-to-person contact. I want to stress that the city...
With boredom really close to setting in for all Americans right now, young children will be the first to have a meltdown – not understanding why they have stay inside, can't go see grandma or are not allowed to have friends over to play. One Chicago native now living in Iowa is helping the cause. Jessica Fick, who works at the University of Iowa by day, is trading in her Hawkeye yellow and donning her yellow ballgown and long curls and chatting with children as Disney's B...
Just after it opened this morning at 10 a.m., a day after Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker issued an Executive Order requiring all residents to stay in their homes to prevent the further spread of COVID-19, the Walmart on Jefferson Street had a line of cars driven by healthcare professionals and first responders waiting to be tested for the virus¬ Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk released information last week at his press conference that Walmart had approached the city and of...
In this uncertain time, as we face the COVID-19 pandemic as a nation and as a community, we at Enterprise Newspapers are determined to keep you up to date with the latest information on the outbreak. However, as our drop locations for our paper close due to the shut downs ordered by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, the Bugle, Enterprise and Sentinel newspapers are finding it increasingly more difficult to dispense our print product the way we normally do. While we will still offer our product, we will do so is much fewer...
In the next few weeks, households across the United States, in Washington D.C and in the five U.S. territories will begin to receive official Census Bureau mail with detailed information on how to respond to the 2020 Census. This mailing will offer three ways to respond and be counted by phone, by mail or this year for the first time, online. The census is a count of all people mandated by the Constitution of the United States and is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau - a...
When residents and visitors are sitting outside a bar or restaurant on Lockport Street in downtown Plainfield, walking along the riverfront or taking in a band, they will hear something new this year – silence. On Feb. 17, two-plus years of work by the Village of Plainfield in conjunction with the Federal Railroad Administration, CN Railroad and the Illinois Department of Transportation came to fruition when the village was granted its second railroad crossing quiet zone. "...
Every season, counting the third-place and championship games in all four classes, there are only eight teams in the state that end the season with a win. For 10 of the last 13 years, Montini Catholic has been one of them. The Broncos added to that run with a 55-43 win over Springfield Lamphier in the Class 3A third-place game. "We have been down her 10 out of the last 13 years and nine times we have either won it or finished third, the only time we lost was in 2018," said...