JOLIET, Ill. — A man faced a judge Monday for the murders of a mother and her 4-year-old son on Joliet’s East Side. Joseph Johnson, 29, is charged with six counts of first-degree murder. He appeared ...

Todd Feurer is a web producer for CBS Chicago. He has previously written for WBBM Newsradio, WUIS-FM and the New City News Service. A fire was raging Thursday afternoon in an industrial building in ...

A suspect has been arrested and faces first-degree murder charges in the shooting deaths of a suburban Joliet mother and her 4-year-old son. According to a press release from Joliet police, ...

JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) -- A 29-year-old Joliet man has been charged with murder in the deaths of a 4-year-old and his mother in Joliet over the weekend, police said Wednesday. Joseph D. Johnson was ...

A mother has been identified after she and her 4-year-old son were shot and killed in Joliet, Illinois, on Sunday morning. A small memorial has been created just steps away from where she and her ...