Press Releases

During the ninth annual Hero Helps Summit, held Friday, May 3 at the Edward Hospital Athletic and Event Center, local experts shared important information about medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and sober living homes, both key components of long term success in opiate use recovery.

During this year’s Hero Helps Community Summit on Friday, May 3, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker will be present to discuss his plans to address the opioid epidemic including strategies to leverage federal funding opportunities to fight this epidemic locally.

The Will County Regional Office of Education hosted its annual Student Government Day on April 30.

The Will County Land Use Department’s Resource Recovery and Energy Division, along with Joliet Franciscan Sisters and University of St. Francis, will host a free document destruction event from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 18.

Will County’s annual textile collection event will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 29, to Friday, May 3, at the County Office Building, 304 N. Chicago St.

The Workforce Center of Will County will host a job fair from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 25 at its office, 2400 Glenwood Avenue in Joliet.

On Wednesday, April 17, Congressman Bill Foster met with Will County Executive Larry Walsh, County Board Speaker Denise Winfrey, other county board leadership, and members of the County Executive staff for a discussion about Will County's federal agenda. Recently, county board leadership and Walsh's Chief of Staff Nick Palmer visited federal legislators in Washington D.C. to present the county's 2019-2020 federal agenda which included requests for funding on infrastructure and other county programs.

The Will County Office Building will be closed on Friday, April 19, 2019 in observance of Good Friday and the Easter holiday. Normal hours will resume on Monday, April 22, 2019.

The Workforce Center of Will County May schedule has been released.

The May schedule for the Mobile Workforce Center of Will County has been released.