Robert Herguth/Sun-Times Share Months after the Diocese of Joliet announced the closings of five Catholic churches and two Catholic schools in the Joliet area, its bishop is signating that another ...

JOLIET — The Diocese of Joliet and Bishop Ronald Hicks ... The latest round of Catholic church closings and mergers impacts southern Will County, Grundy County and DuPage County parishes.

Sixteen parishes in the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, will be reconfigured into seven parishes, with five churches closing, in order to optimize the diocese's resources for its future and ...

Catholic churches in Carol Stream, Villa Park, Wheaton and Oakbrook Terrace are being closed as part of a restructuring plan announced Thursday by the Joliet Diocese. By July 1, St. Mark in ...

The closing of the church on Monee Road in the Will County section of Park Forest, however, seemed imminent last year when the Joliet Diocese undertook a “Targeted Restructuring” process.