As economic woes linger, ex-cons struggle to find work, second-chance

Georgina Walker has seen enough of the inside of a prison cell to know she never wants to return to jail — yet more than one year after being released from prison, Walker is unemployed, struggling to make ends meet and rapidly returning to the …Read More

• Jurors to get Christopher Vaughn murder case on Thursday

  The jury that heard more than four weeks of testimony about the shooting deaths of Christopher Vaughn’s wife and three children didn’t get to hear the Oswego man explain why he was the only member of his family to walk away from their SUV in June 2007.

• 253 line up to be Joliet cops
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• New garage sale restrictions rejected by Kendall County
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