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A Plano man has been found guilty of criminal sexual assault to a teenager after a four-day trial this month.

Organizers of the Joliet Area African American Historic Context Study will hold the first of three community interview events on Saturday to collect information relevant to local Black history.

DeKalb‘s shelter and nonprofit which helps those suffering from sexual violence and domestic abuse has a new leader. Mary Ellen Schaid, who’s been executive director of Safe Passage for 11 years, announced her retirement Friday.

An ill detective and an abundance of pretrial motions – covering everything from whether to let a jury hear a 911 call to the possibility the Rock Falls Police Department violated investigative protocol – has led to a two-day delay in the start of a Rock Falls murder trial.

A Joliet man is being held in Will County jail for allegedly stabbing a woman during an incident in which he was stabbed in the chest.

Joliet police are investigating a weekend shooting which left two homes and six vehicles damaged by gunfire.

A Malta couple behind a horror-themed coffee shop is eying a September grand opening. The venue, once it opens, would make for the first of its kind in DeKalb.

A Sterling man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday, May 7, 2025, to fatally stabbing a man found severely injured last August in a vehicle that crashed in the hospital parking lot.

An ex-suburban Chicago police officer has pleaded guilty to getting behind the wheel while drunk in 2023, causing a crash that killed DeKalb mother and grandmother Graciela Reza Contreras.

An Ogle County judge will now be presiding over the felony case of a former Carroll County sheriff’s deputy accused of reckless homicide and destroying evidence in connection with the July death of a Mount Carroll teen.

Three teenagers have been arrested and charged in connection to a Monday shooting in DeKalb, police said Thursday.

A 7 Brew representative told Joliet city officials that it plans to build both on Jefferson Street and Plainfield Road.

More than 150 people attended a town hall meeting Thursday night at Streator High School to discuss recent violence in the community and solutions moving forward, including a pair of high school seniors who asked questions about safety.

A Whiteside County judge will decide Friday, May, 9, whether Kyle Cooper’s trial will begin Tuesday, May 13. That decision will follow a hearing on whether the Illinois Attorney General's Office will be able to intervene in the case on behalf of the Illinois State Police.

The number of reports of stolen vehicles and burglaries in Sterling also increased in 2024, according to the report.

A Will County judge stood by her prison sentence for a former Plainfield Township landlord convicted of the 2023 hate crime murder of a Muslim child.

Marshall Morong, 7, high-fived his first grade teacher after stepping out of a Tesla Cybertruck Monday, returning to school amid cheers months after a successful heart transplant. ‘Thank you to our donor family for choosing life in such a difficult moment,’ his mom said

Wednesday marks two years since DeKalb police found 15-year-old Gracie Sasso-Cleveland. dead. And while the man responsible has since pleaded guilty, he’s not yet received a prison sentence. “Losing a child changes you in every way,” her mom Ericka Sasso said.

A 28-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after police said he displayed a handgun in the area of City Park in Streator.

DeKalb police are investigating a shooting Monday night outside apartment buildings on Kimberly Drive. Police Chief David Byrd said no victims or suspects have been identified as of about 8 p.m.

Traffic was halted on Interstate 80 Monday night following a deadly collision involving a semi-tractor and a minivan, police said.

Channahon Village Hall and the Channahon Police Department have been given the all clear after being evacuated Monday due to a suspicious package.

Investigating deputies have determined that a 2013 GMC Acadia was traveling east on Route 2 at a high rate of speed when it struck an eastbound 2014 Ford Fusion. The Acadia then crossed the median and collided with a westbound 2012 Dodge Charger.

Marshall Morong, a first grader at Hinckley-Big Rock Elementary School, arrived in style Monday morning riding in a Tesla Cybertruck donated for use by Tesla of Naperville, escorted by Hinckley and Big Rock first responders. Morong has missed much of the school year while in the hospital waiting for, and eventually receiving, a heart transplant.

The city of Joliet will begin work on several streets that will lead to closures and lane reconfigurations beginning Monday.

School resource officers from the DeKalb Police Department are here to stay for at least the next five years in DeKalb schools.

The 2-year project's work zone will be from the U.S. 30 interchange at exit 44 in Rock Falls to just west of the U.S. 30 spur interchange at exit 36.

Workers’ rights, immigration, and higher education free of government oversight were among issues protesters decried Saturday as under attack by the Trump administration, urging the large crowd gathered in DeKalb to put “unrelenting” pressure on legislators to push back.

A DeKalb man has been charged with 15 counts of circulating materials online, including video and photographs, depicting child sexual abuse, court records show.

DeKalb city leaders could soon discuss whether to implement a local grocery tax as the state’s 1% grocery tax expires in 2026. “We’re not talking about a tax increase. The only thing we’re talking about is keeping the existing tax in place," Mayor Cohen Barnes said.

The teen charged in the Arthur Street shooting in Streator will be tried as an adult, and detained, even though he’s still a teenager. The victim, meanwhile, is expected to survive.

Residents from the Will County area gathered in downtown Joliet as part of a nationwide May Day Weekend movement protesting policies and actions taken by President Donald Trump's administration on Saturday, May 3, 2025.

A DeKalb man who pleaded guilty in February to murdering teenager Gracie Sasso-Cleveland in 2023 won’t be sentenced as planned this week. Instead, Timothy Doll, 31, has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, court records show.

Organizers will again gather in DeKalb Saturday for what they’re calling a May Day rally, the latest in a line of nationwide protests to oppose among other things billionaire influence in the Trump administration, federal cuts to needed services and tumultuous immigration policy.

The City of DeKalb on Thursday announced the apartment at 930 Greenbriar Road is inhabitable again more than four months after a Dec. 22 fire.

The teen’s name has not yet been officially released.

Crews are working to remove a semi from the median at mile marker 74 on Interstate 80 near Peru.

After more than a month, a Mega Millions jackpot ticket worth $349 million sold at a Cortland gas station has been claimed, Cortland’s mayor said Wednesday.

The La Salle County State’s Attorney’s Office confirmed Wednesday that an individual in Streator, identity not yet disclosed, was taken to the hospital with a gunshot injury. The injuries are not expected to be fatal.

Derek Swanlund, 44, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges that accuse him of fatally shooting Cameron Pasley on April 21, 2025, in Mt. Morris.

Jose Rendon, 22, of Crest Hill arrested for allegedly taking video of a former girlfriend without her knowing.

The visas of five Northern Illinois University international students that were revoked by the federal government weeks ago have been reinstated, a university spokesperson said Tuesday.

The Joliet Fire Department responded to the Ikea distribution center Tuesday morning after heavy smoke was seen coming from the roof, according to the fire department.

Tonica Grade School was placed under lockdown following a threat Tuesday. Authorities are calling it “an isolated incident.”

Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire reported in multiple buildings at a pig farm in rural Kingston Tuesday.

According to a joint news release, dispatchers had received a report shortly before 11 a.m. that a woman had entered a silo near city hall and was on its roof, about 50 feet off the ground.

Power restored Tuesday, April 29, to ComEd customers across Whiteside County.

Dairy Ripple, a popular spot in Sycamore to grab ice cream cones, hot dogs, burgers, fries and flurries won’t be open this year, according to the business.

First responders were dispatched at about 1 p.m. Monday to Interstate 80 near Plank Road in Peru for a crash. So far, the injuries are believed to be minor, officials said.

Work to build a roundabout near Northern Illinois University campus in DeKalb will begin in May, a plan that city officials have said will improve pedestrian safety.