Daniel “Dan” Davis is 59 years old, 5′7″, 165 pounds, and last seen wearing a black Harley Davidson jacket, red Indiana University sweatshirt, and black jeans, Joliet police said.

A year ago, McHenry went owl-crazy when a snowy owl was spotted in a field on the south side of town but was later hit and killed by a car. The bird is now remembered in song.

Travelers at the end of the Thanksgiving holiday on Sunday were finding hundreds of flights delayed and canceled in Chicago following a winter storm in the Great Lakes region, while a wintry mix of rain and snow developed in the Northeast

Local truckers left Joliet Saturday morning for an annual pilgrimage that took them to Chicago and on to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines.

After previous successes, Pace is proposing to extend express bus service to I-290 and I-88 to connect the western suburbs with Chicago.

Advocates of the SAFE-T Act say the law is not to blame for the arson attack of a Chicago train passenger and the arrest record of the man charged with the attack shows cash bail system didn’t work.

A Chicago man pleaded guilty to battery in the shooting of another man in McHenry in 2023. An attempted murder charge was dropped in exchange, a deal approved by a judge who told him she'd pray for him in prison.

Federal prosecutors moved Thursday to dismiss charges against a woman who was shot several times by a Border Patrol agent last month during the federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area

From Capitol News Illinois: Wednesday’s decision also warned not to “overread today’s order” and said that evidence brought to Ellis about federal agents’ use of force in the Chicago area over the last two months “may support entry of a more tailored and appropriate” injunction

From Capitol News Illinois: Gov. JB Pritzker met with Pope Leo XIV in Rome on Wednesday, with the two discussing the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids and the governor formally inviting the Chicago-born pontiff back for a visit to his hometown.

With Huntley out of the running, the smaller town of Marengo is looking at whether it could be a stop along the Chicago-to-Rockford rail line. But leaders have a lot of questions.

A Department of Defense official confirmed to Shaw Local on Monday the 200 Texas guard members are currently being demobilized and the process will continue over the next few days until they are gone.

New legislation poses the possibility of more commuter trains on rgw Rock Island line and a future high-speed rail connection between Joliet and Peoria.

About 200 Texas National Guard troops in Chicago are being sent home and about 200 soldiers will be on standby at Fort Bliss

Reflecting what some experts see as a national trend, four of the six congressional representatives running for reelection in the North, West or Northwest suburbs next year are facing primary challenges.

As an unprecedented immigration crackdown enters a third month, a growing number of Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a racist and aggressive overreach of the federal government

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings previously determined that ICE had violated the consent decree which, among other things, requires the agency to show documentation for each arrest it makes for people besides those being specifically targeted in an operation

State lawmakers’ passage of Senate Bill 2111 on Oct. 31 saves Metra, Pace and the CTA from a massive shortfall leading to service cuts and layoffs. But tucked into the bailout is a toll hike that will devastate the trucking industry, a trucking executive says.

Joliet police detective Jeremy Eaton addresses mental health in veterans through five different outlets.

Already crowded races for a pair of largely suburban Congressional seats got even more packed, and four representatives find themselves facing challenges within their own party, as candidate filing for the 2026 primary election wrapped up Monday.

From Capitol News Illinois: Chicago-area public transportation agencies won’t need to raise fares, cut routes or lay off workers next year after state lawmakers approved a bill overhauling public transit, the head of the Regional Transportation Authority said

A federal judge said Thursday she will order federal agents in Chicago to restrict using force against peaceful protesters and news media outlets, saying current practices violate their constitutional rights

With a 10% cut in flights coming Friday, O’Hare International Airport’s two major carriers offered advice to passengers about what to expect on what will be a challenging day for thousands.

The Village of Bolingbrook has declined to release body camera video regarding an Oct. 19 incident that involved federal immigration agents who claimed they were battered.

Kane, DuPage and McHenry county mayors “remain very concerned that not having equity in voting on the new NITA board will set them up to be absolutely steamrolled,” state Sen. Don DeWitte said.

Charges have been dismissed against two Chicago men who were accused of scamming a Spring Grove couple out of $100,000, though one of the defendants paid back half the money, officials said.

From Capitol News Illinois: The plan calls for raising the existing Regional Transportation Authority sales tax by 0.25 percentage points, to 1% in Lake, McHenry, Kane, DuPage and Will counties and 1.25% in Cook County

“I permitted an event to an animal abuser. I did,” DeKalb County Interim Administrator Derek Hiland said of an Aug. 2 rodeo in Kirkland. In the past few years, steer-tailing events have drawn widespread criticism, though some say animal abuse allegations are hard to prosecute.

A woman with an intellectual disability reported missing in Joliet may have taken a Metra train to Chicago on Tuesday, police said.

A federal appeals court has blocked an order that required a senior Border Patrol official to brief a judge on Chicago immigration sweeps

From Capitol News Illinois: Two key negotiators on public transit reform in the Illinois House filed a bill Tuesday to raise up to $2 billion for public transit by taxing entertainment and the unrealized investment gains of billionaires

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis also told Greg Bovino to produce all use-of-force reports from agents involved in Operation Midway Blitz since Sept. 2. She also noted the sudden deployment of tear gas during a weekend Halloween event

The programs honored included a major restoration project at Lockport Prairie Nature Preserve and the Be A Trailblazer campaign, according to the forest preserve district.

The Kane County Coroner identified two who died in a crash Saturday, Oct. 25 in the westbound lanes of Interstate 88.

A 15-year-old girl was reported to have been last seen in the 6000 block of Winterhaven Drive, according to a statement from the Joliet Police Department.

From Capitol News Illinois: Bovino has been the face of Operation Midway Blitz since his mid-September arrival in the Chicago area fresh from running a similar campaign in Los Angeles

A two-day trial in Chicago over a false arrest lawsuit filed by former Joliet Police Sgt. Dwayne Killian concluded on Thursday with a verdict that was not in his favor, court records show. 

As the Trump administration intensifies an immigration crackdown across the nation’s third-largest city and its suburbs, elected officials in the Democratic stronghold have been increasingly caught in tense encounters with federal agents

U.S. District Judge April Perry on Wednesday blocked the deployment of Guard troops to the Chicago area indefinitely, until the case has been decided in her court or the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes

The immense show of force signaled a sharp escalation in the White House’s immigration crackdown and amplified tensions in a city already on edge.

Police departments from around Grundy County were well represented in last weekend's Chicago Marathon, with six members of the Minooka Police Department and one member of the Morris Police Department participating.

Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow said the “alleged circumstances” involving a former Plainfield fire chief suspected of misappropriating public resources “did not rise to the level of a criminal offense.”

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to immigration enforcement in the Chicago area have been given body cameras, an official testified Monday

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area

A retired Joliet police sergeant claims he sustained $325,000 in damages in total for his alleged wrongful arrest and loss of employment, federal court records show.

Separately, hours later, a federal appeals court ruled against the Trump administration and said a lower court’s temporary ban on deploying the National Guard to assist immigration officers in Illinois would stay in place while the government pursues an appeal

Cook County’s top judge on Tuesday night signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court

A high-speed chase involving Border Patrol agents led to the pursued person’s arrest Tuesday afternoon in a residential street on Chicago ’s South Side, authorities said

Criminal detainees could be held in a Bureau of Prisons facility, such as the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago, or in other facilities that have contracted with the federal government

Metra customers are now required to carry their e-bikes and e-scooters on and off the train without the assistance of electric motors.