Lockport

The start of the new school year is just three months away, and parents at St. Joseph Catholic School are very concerned.

There is something unique going on in the heart of downtown Lockport.

The Diocese of Joliet confirmed on Friday that Jeremy Hylka, a former Catholic school teacher charged with child grooming, did not fulfill employment requirements while teaching at St. Joseph Catholic School in Lockport.

Jeremy M. Hylka is facing charges of traveling to meet a child and grooming. He was a teacher at Joliet Catholic Academy, St. Joseph Catholic School in Lockport as well as St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church and the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus. He also volunteered at St. Jude Catholic Church in New Lenox from 2014 to 2015.

Joliet police have issued an arrest warrant for a former Catholic school teacher accused of inappropriately communicating with a teenage boy.

"With her being a teenager and all the turbulence that brings, you know, you throw COVID on top of that, and I can’t even imagine having to go through that alone," said one suburban mother.

One suburban school is trying to help students tackle tension amid the coronavirus pandemic.

With bedrooms replacing classrooms for nearly one year, local students say they are struggling in so many ways.

Chicago’s second major winter storm in a week dumped nearly a foot of snow in some parts of the city by Monday morning.

 A state trooper was struck by a vehicle Monday night on Interstate 80 in suburban Lockport, but didn’t require medical attention.

A Lockport woman allegedly tried stealing a nearly $10,000 puppy from a Naperville pet store by hiding the dog inside her jacket.

Authorities are asking the public for help investigating a fatal hit-and-run last month in southwest suburban Lockport.

The first day of school had a whole new look at Queen of the Rosary in Elk Grove Village.

Charges will not be filed against a man taken into custody Sunday after a fatal shooting near Lockport, officials said.

A 52-year-old Lockport man was sentenced to 22 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to predatory criminal sexual assault of an 8-year-old boy in the child’s home, according to the Will County State’s Attorney’s office.

Three people, including a teenage boy, were wounded in a shooting Wednesday in an unincorporated area of southwest suburban Lockport Township.

Some suburban mayors are critical of the current stay-at-home order and releasing their own plans to reopen sooner.