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'Huge Black Smoke Plume' Visible from Romeoville Fire
Fire crews have responded to a brush fire near 675 N. Weber Road, along I-55, according to reports. A "huge, black smoke plume" is visible from the area, and readers reported woods on fire near...
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Patch Highlights Area Golf Courses
On April 2, Patch gave you local sites to play your golf game. But we know that golfing is one of those activities that will send you to your neighboring community or even further away looking for a...
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Go Fly a Kite: Here's How to Do it Right
It's National Kite Month. If you drive past a local park, you can see people on the ground holding strings that attach to kites they have successfully launched into the air. Last weekend, my two kids...
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Will County DUI Arrests: April 6
Bolingbrook March 23 Henry Godfrey, 44, 808 Grove Ln., was arrested at 2:31 a.m. and charged with DUI and illegal transportation of alcohol following a traffic stop at Orchard Drive and Clifton Lane,...
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Plainfield School District to Sell Used Laptops, Desktop Computers
District 202 will sell surplus laptop and desktop computers to the community for $70 each, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 13, 2013 at the district Operations Center, 14812 Eastern Avenue,...
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Court Supervision: Not The Pedro Hernandez You Were Looking For
We started the week off by talking with the New Lenox man jailed for two weeks for a murder allegedly committed by someone else with the same name. Pedro Hernandez, 67, said his time in the Will County...
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Best of the Blogs: What Are Your Neighbors Saying This Week?
At Patch, we love our bloggers! No other local platform allows communities to connect the way our Local Voices section does. So, each week we'll highlight the best of the local blogs from around the...
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Plainfield, Romeoville Girls Named All-American Wrestling Champs
Article submitted by Matthew Janiak: Over Easter weekend, 8-year-olds Alexis Janiak of Plainfield and Alina Schlageter of Romeoville competed in the USAW Girls Folkstyle National Championships at the...
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Romeoville Police Host Youth Academy June 10-14
Teens considering careers in law enforcement are invited to enroll in the free, one-week Romeoville Police Youth Academy, set for Monday, June 10 through Friday, June 14, at the Romeoville Police...
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Sold! Romeoville Area Real Estate Transactions: April 8 Edition
These properties were sold in Romeoville recently, according to county property records. 802 W. Mystic Lane, $234,000 795 W. Mystic Lane, $250,500 1577 Amaryllis Drive, $95,000 393 Richmond Drive,...
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Letter: McMichael Should Stop the Trash-Talk
Until this week I was still undecided about the upcoming mayoral race. I had a hard time telling what McMichael stood for besides telling me what I wanted to hear. About a month ago I had a...
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Letter: An Open Letter to Steve McMichael
How convenient is it that you left your “newsletter” on my front porch four days before the elections? After months of refusing to answer any questions in a public forum where you knew that you would...
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How Long is the ER Wait at Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital?
If you go to the emergency room at Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital, how long will it take before you see a health-care professional? The federal government says 29 minutes on average. That's slightly...
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Police Blotter: Romeoville Woman Accused of Driving Drunk with No Lights,...
March 17 Luiz Martinez, 26, of the 400 block of Hamrick Avenue, Romeoville, was arrested at 5:46 a.m. in the 200 block of Murphy Drive and charged with driving under the influence, hit and run,...
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Romeoville Job Central: Chipotle, CARQUEST, Joliet Township HS
Welcome to Job Central, our weekly column listing local job advertisements and descriptions. We scoured the Web to bring you a selection of local job ads, but if we left anything out, please don't...
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Food Pantry in the Running for $10,000 Prize
After more than a decade of helping feed Romeoville-area residents in need, Green Harvest Food Pantry founder Jeff Green got a taste of what it’s like to be on the receiving end when his organization...
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