A 36-year-old woman and a 36-year-old man are being held by the Will County Sheriff's Office after an infant's remains were found buried on a Wilmington residence.

A Sleepy Hollow woman said Friday she is offering a $30,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in her daughter’s 2009 death, which authorities ruled in 2022 was a “homicide.”

A judge said a Woodstock woman in jail on drug charges “made several phone calls” to her roommate about “hiding narcotics still in her residence.”

A Skokie man accused of supplying a fatal dose of fentanyl to a 25-year-old woman from West Chicago has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, prosecutors said.

Joliet's police chief said his investigations division “continues to record higher than a 90% clearance rate on homicide offenses over a three-year period.”

She claimed to run a daycare service in Ottawa with earnings of $100,000. Ebony Green was actually a hair stylist earning a fraction of that. Yet she got a COVID-19 relief loan for nearly $20,000. Ebony Green may now go to prison for five years.

Scammers are calling residents from spoofed, or cloned phone numbers pretending to represent local police departments or other government agencies, Bolingbrook police said.

Christopher L. Reed, 31, pleaded guilty to the Class X felony when he appeared in court for a pretrial hearing with his attorney.

A woman who initially claimed an intruder shot her and her husband on their property in near Wonder Lake admitted Tuesday that she fired on her husband and was sentenced to 22 years in prison.

A Woodstock man is accused of giving a Richmond officer false identification during a traffic stop while being sought on an arrest warrant and in possession of drugs.

A Whiteside County jury began hearing testimony Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in the trial of a Rock Falls man accused of beating a 61-year-old man in 2022 and causing a brain stem injury.

Eric Strasser has been in the Will County jail since April 17 on a charge of the first-degree murder of his wife, Rosy Strasser on May 1, 2024, in Lockport.

Four individuals have been charged with stealing merchandise from three DuPage County businesses in separate incidents this past weekend, prosecutors said.

The Illinois State Police conducted a crime suppression operation in honor Trooper Brian Frank, who was severely injured in a 2021 Scott’s Law crash in Will County.

A Woodstock woman was denied pretrial release after being charged with having over 3 ounces of cocaine, court records show.

An Elgin man, arrested in Woodstock with an Algonquin woman, is accused of possessing possession with intent to deliver cocaine, a Class X felony, according to a criminal complaint.

A man on parole for armed robbery has been charged with robbing an Oak Brook gas station.

An attorney told a McHenry County judge his client could not appear in court because he was arrested by ICE. The man faces child sex abuse charges locally.

The Bureau County Grand Jury considered the following cases on Nov. 14.

A Marengo man is among five charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty in connection to a Woodstock-area rodeo, including men from Sleepy Hollow, Hampshire, Belvidere and a teen from Lockport, court records show.

Quinton M. Thompsen, of St. Anne was arrested following an alleged altercation that occurred during a Nov. 20 boys’ basketball game at Bradley Central School.

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.

Kankakee police said Tuesday they interviewed a person of interest in the shooting death of 20-year-old Donnie E. Smith, of Chicago, Sunday night.

Illinois State Police Division of Forensic Services confirmed the remains as Princeton's Austin J. Rossler in a laboratory report received Friday, Nov. 21, Workman said.

A Streamwood man charged with firing a gun from a car in Cary last year has been denied pretrial release following his recent arrest.

Earlier this month, a Momence man agreed to plead guilty to battering a 72-year-old man in Momence in June.

A 20-year-old Chicago man was killed Sunday night in Kankakee, a victim of a shooting.

A Huntley man is accused of being under the influence of marijuana when he ran a stop sign near Union and crashed into a pickup truck, causing serious injuries.

A Crystal Lake woman is accused of aggravated battery of a baby in her care and running an unlicensed daycare. A video of her handling the baby, shot by another child, was ruled admissible.

A man convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in Harvard after being deported and returning illegally has been sentenced to federal prison for being in the US unlawfully at the time.

A McHenry man accused of forcing his way into a stranger’s apartment, then biting the man’s thumb, has pleaded guilty to battery.

The 18-year-old is charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm, a Class 1 felony, and aggravated use of a firearm as a person under the age of 21, a Class 4 felony

The home was occupied at the time of the shooting but no injuries were reported, Joliet police said.

A Chicago man charged with shooting two people as they sat in a parked vehicle in Addison to 42 years in prison.

Former Crystal Lake city clerk Nicholas Kachiroubas' own police report about an online extortion attempt led to charges against him, authorities said. He pleaded guilty to possessing an image depicting child sexual abuse.

Three Cook County individuals, including a juvenile who was allegedly armed, have been accused of stealing a 2019 Nissan Altima out of Willowbrook, prosecutors said.

Authorities encourage anyone with information to come forward about the death of Anna Schneider at 19 in Sleepy Hollow in 2009. Her manner of death was reclassified homicide in 2022.

A Chicago man currently on pre-trial release for a felony retail theft in Lombard has been charged with stealing merchandise from three DuPage County businesses over the past few weeks, prosecutors said.

Police allege a woman had a large, bleeding bump on her head and red marks around her neck, indicating she had been choked, as a result of a Nov. 8 beating

Nicholas Kachiroubas was the elected Crystal Lake city clerk and had held several other civic roles when he was charged with possessing lewd images of children and grooming. He's now agreed to plead guilty to the former and faces prison.

The death of college student Anna Schneider of Sleepy Hollow was reclassified as a homicide three years ago. Her parents say they haven't seen justice.

A man who shot a pregnant woman in 2022 in Willowbrook has been sentenced to 48 years in prison.

A Willowbrook man is being detained following accusations of attempted sexual assault in Hinsdale and of grabbing women in Downers Grove and Darien.

Jesus Simms, 32, of Joliet, is accused of stabbing a 45-year-old man multiple times near South Ottawa and McDonough streets on Tuesday evening

A Genoa man has been charged with aggravated DUI and driving with a revoked licensed in McHenry County after authorities said he hit a curb and a sign and drove into a grassy area.

A former Cary man accused of starting a fire in his Crystal Lake motel room was detained Wednesday in jail.

A Wonder Lake man who was convicted in 2002 of fatally shooting his wife, and who last year was cleared of felony domestic battery charges, faces new domestic battery misdemeanors.

A 45-year-old male was found in the area of McDonough Street and South Ottawa Street with multiple stab wounds, Joliet police said.

A Michigan man is accused of starting a fire inside the Super 8 motel in Crystal Lake Monday, and the manager who extinguished it is being praised as a “bonafide hero.”

Bradley police arrested two men Nov. 5 for allegedly passing counterfeit $100 in Bradley.