A Huntley man has waived his right to a trial, admitted he performed “a lewd act” in his garage while the door was open and was given court supervision, records show.

A Pingree Grove man has been found guilty of murdering a Crystal Lake man in 2024 and hiding his body in a box in a pole barn.

A Richmond man who was accused of driving drunk while under the legal drinking age, and causing a crash that flipped his truck and sent him and his passenger to the hospital, has pleaded guilty.

A Batavia man has been sentenced to jail and probation after being found guilty of DUI causing a crash in McHenry County, in which authorities said his blood-alcohol content measured five times the legal limit.

A woman who had to be helped to the witness stand described the brain damage and other injuries she suffered when she was randomly beaten in a McHenry park by man who said he's "angel of death."

Mark Cook spent almost 40 years as the McHenry County public defender. He got a surprise sendoff Friday from courthouse colleagues and family.

A Wonder Lake man pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of sexually abusing a child and avoided a lengthy prison sentence, according to court records.

A Cary man twice convicted of attempted murder in Cook County, and acquitted of murder as a teen in 1980, has turned himself in after being wanted on a sixth alleged offense of drunk driving.

The attempted murder trial is set to begin Thursday for a man accused in a violent attack on a woman in a McHenry park that authorities said was unprovoked; he also allegedly beat a man who tried to intervene.