An Aurora man has been charged with several felonies related to alleged solicitation of a minor, grooming and possession of child sexual abuse materials, police said.

Scott Johansen, one of three candidates for Kane County treasurer in the March 17 Democratic primary, filed two police reports that allege his 4x4 campaign signs were damaged and stolen.

A Kane County jury found a Montgomery man guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of another man.

A St. Charles man is charged with attempted murder after police say he charged at officers with a knife, resulting in officers discharging a Taser and a gun at him Friday night.

A Kane County judge agreed with prosecutors that a man accused of starting an apartment complex fire in Carpentersville Nov. 29 that displaced 24 families should remain in jail and not have pretrial release.

Police said a Geneva man sat at an Elburn traffic light for at least 30 minutes before he was charged with DUI.

A West Dundee man accused of using Facebook Messenger to solicit a 14-year-old Fox River Grove child to perform a sex act has been sentenced to prison for four years, court records show.

A Batavia person reported losing $648,000 in a Bitcoin investment involving someone met through a dating app claiming to be a Naperville investor, police reports show.

Officers were called to a Batavia home at 5:44 p.m. Friday after a resident reported seeing two unknown men inside the house while remotely monitoring a home surveillance system, Batavia police said.

An Aurora man has been charged with four felonies following an alleged home invasion in which a female resident and a male juvenile were battered by an intruder, authorities said.

An Aurora man has been charged with five felonies related to a firearm and ammunition allegedly found in his car during a traffic stop and which he was not legally allowed to own, police said.

An Oswego man was charged in Kane County with disseminating and possessing child sexual abuse images.

Brandon Franklin, 18, of the 16900 block of Crane Road, Hazel Crest, is charged with two felony counts of first-degree murder in the March 2023 shooting

Michael Zomparelli, 43, of Montgomery, has been charged with seven counts of child pornography,

A South Elgin man is facing weapons charges after allegedly brandishing a gun inside a St. Charles bar and firing shots outside late Tuesday night.

One of two suspects in a 2020 Boulder Hill drive-by shooting that left two women dead has been sentenced to life in prison.

Early Friday morning, Batavia police and Kane County Regional SWAT were called to an apartment in the 1200 block of Eaast Wilson Street following a report of two female victims and multiple children being held against their will.

A man charged in the stabbing deaths of a Geneva woman and her son the day after Christmas last year made a brief appearance via Zoom before Kane County Associate Judge Lark Cowart Wednesday.