Both crashes involved commercial vehicles, state police said.
For more than a year, the Brandon Road Bridge along Route 6 near Joliet and Rockdale was working fine, until it broke down this weekend.
The driver and a person who was inside the store were injured.
The driver was injured and taken to a nearby hospital Thursday morning.
Monday's wreck at Ingalls and Larkin Avenues involved a marked Joliet police car with its emergency lights flashing, authorities said.
Closed since early August, the Cass Street Bridge project was anticipated to take two months to complete.
Joliet police were sent to the area of Caton Farm Road east of Von Esch Road for a multiple-vehicle crash that involved a fatality.
One of the semis involved in Wednesday's early morning wreck was transporting about 80,000 pounds of soybeans, WJOL reported.
The Joliet man's vehicle collided with the concrete sound wall along Interstate 55, Joliet police spokesman Dwayne English said.
In Joliet Houbolt Road, between US Route 6 and Mound Road, will be closed in the coming days.
Virginia Hayes was a passenger in a car traveling westbound on Pine Bluff that developed car problems, Grundy Coroner John Callahan said.
Wednesday evening's crash halted motorists heading westbound toward Minooka from Joliet.
Major travel delays are anticipated on Interstate 80 in Joliet and alternative routes are strongly encouraged.
Overnight lane closures for Illinois Department of Transportation road work were a factor in Wednesday's early morning fatality.
The 68-year-old man from Downers Grove was parked on the shoulder of southbound I-55 for unknown reasons at the time of the crash.
The I-80 work will be alternating between westbound and eastbound I-80 for approximately eight consecutive weekends, weather permitting.
The ramp from Larkin Avenue to Interstate 80 is now closed, the Illinois State Police advised.
Interstate 80 westbound at Ashton Road in Morris was the site of Friday evening's fatal crash that claimed at least two lives.
Wilmington police reported the crash Thursday night. Her identity is being withheld pending positive ID.
A city of Joliet employee came across the dead motorcyclist around noon on Friday and called 911.
The Cass Street Bridge project is scheduled to close for the same upgrade project, which is anticipated to take two months to complete.
BNSF officials said it could take an hour or longer to get the train moving again.
A Shorewood teenager pulled out of a driveway on Ingalls Avenue when she hit the Harley-Davidson, according to Joliet police.
A semi knocked down a utility pole and drove away from the crash scene on McDonough Street, Joliet police told Patch.
At 5:20 p.m., Tuesday's heat index felt like 111 degrees, according to the Joliet Weather Center's Brian Delach.
Illinois State Police said Wednesday's fatal wreck happened at 11:12 a.m. The motorcyclist crashed into the back of the semi-trailer.
The Illinois Department of Transportation said the Jackson Street Bridge repairs would be done by the end of April. Now, it's late June.
Will County Sheriff's accident reconstruction investigators were on the scene of Tuesday's fatality on Joliet's east side.
All lanes of Houbolt Road are shut down at the I-80 exits and westbound I-80 was closed at Larkin Ave., Joliet police announced at 1 p.m.
Three vehicles were involved in Wednesday afternoon's fatality at Wilmington-Peotone Road, just west of 104th Avenue in Peotone.
Cleaning and painting of the bridge will take until August, IDOT said.
Traffic heading into downtown Joliet along Jefferson Street was backed up several blocks over Tuesday's noon hour.
Sunday night's T-bone crash happened at Essington Road and Executive Drive on Joliet's west side.
Joliet's Bob Hernandez got to Friday night's crash to produce one of his Facebook Live videos.
A semi-trailer crashed into the Scott Street viaduct around 5:30 a.m. While Joliet police were still at the scene, the second semi crashed.
Joliet police officers, Joliet fire engines and ComEd converged on Dekalb Street after an Amazon Prime truck downed several utility lines.
The Joliet detour will direct motorists to Richards Street, Fourth Avenue and Mills Road.
Illinois State Police announced the 51-year-old cattle hauler from Virginia veered off Interstate 80 in Joliet, hitting a disabled semi.
Illinois State Police and Joliet police were on the scene Tuesday afternoon trying to corral numerous livestock.
Joliet's Bob Hernandez got to Saturday night's crash to produce one of his Facebook Live videos.