December 2021

Chris Regis, Attorney for the City of Joliet, turned over some documents to the Plaintiff’s attorneys today. Regis claims that Joliet does not have any other traffic studies other than a 2020 draft traffic study provided to Plaintiff’s attorneys that he called “obsolete” and no environmental impact studies. Yet, Joliet’s City Council plans to proceed with hearings on December 21^st and vote on approving this massive project with or without environmental or traffic studies. … Read more →

On December 8^th, Judge Anderson signed the following order: “… Because the undersigned has friends and family members with personal interests in both sides of the controversy, the undersigned must recuse.

The case is transferred to Presiding Judge Rickmon for reassignment. Tomorrow’s court date stands…

The TRO will be handled by Judge Rickmon or the otherwise-assigned judge. …”… Read more →

On December 7^th an emergency motion was filed to compel Joliet to release the NorthPoint traffic studies by Joliet before any hearings on NorthPoint’s annexation can be conducted.

“VERIFIED EMERGENCY MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER/PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION TO COMPEL JOLIET TO PRODUCE DOCUMENTS RELATED TO ANY TRAFFIC STUDIES AHEAD OF THE DECEMBER 21, 2021 CITY COUNCIL HEARINGS AND TO STAY THE CITY COUNCIL HEARINGS”… Read more →

Recently uncovered documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests reveal that NorthPoint’s real intentions go far beyond the Joliet area and that their plans, if allowed to come to fruition, will have far-reaching impacts across the entire region. In the documents unearthed by Stop NorthPoint, NorthPoint lays out their ambition to do an end-run around the will of Illinois residents to create a 30-mile long “Illiana-Lite” expressway corridor reaching across the entire county, from I-55 to I-394 that would conveniently pass right through NorthPoint’s industrial warehouse park…. Read more →