Duane C. Meyer, 43, is charged with killing Maggie (Rosko) Meyer, 31, in October 2016 and setting her home on fire. Their 3-year-old son, who was inside the Byron home, also died. 

A criminal complaint alleged a property manager for the Housing Authority of Joliet accepted rent payments from tenants but failed to remit that money to the housing authority last year.

A man who Aurora police said armed himself with a knife Wednesday during a reported battery has died after he was shot at least once by an officer, authorities said in a Wednesday night update.

A Cary man who years ago was convicted of attempted murder, and prior to that acquitted of murder as a teen, has been charged with a sixth DUI, according to court records.

A Kankakee man was charged with driving under the influence following a crash in Lil’s Park on Saturday.

A Harvard man was accused of sharing illegal images of children while he awaits trial on a charge that he followed two girls into stores in Crystal Lake.

Joliet and Plainfield police apprehended two 19-year-old suspects in a home invasion that turned violent Sunday morning.

A Joliet woman is facing several charges after allegedly resisting arrest and assaulting police officers at a local bar early Sunday morning, according to the Joliet Police Department.

A Lake County man with a past felony conviction was found guilty of gun and drug charges after authorities said he hid a Glock pistol in the back of a squad car during a McHenry traffic stop.

The Illinois State Police releases latest results of its efforts to combat vehicle theft and hijacking.

Four individuals have been charged this week with fleeing and eluding police in unrelated incidents, a crime that has sharply increased over the past few years, according to the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office

Charges have been filed against two more people involved in the Christmas Eve incident at Mac and Frankie’s in Bradley.

The scene from inside Mac and Frankie’s in Bradley last month shows a calm evening turn into chaos as people appear to forcibly push a Black woman from the bar.

A Chicago man was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday for trying to pass a counterfeit $100 bill at Chick-fil-A in Crystal Lake.

McHenry County got word from the Trump administration this week that a federal grant vital to its drug court was terminated. A day later word came just as suddenly that the grant was reinstated.

An Aurora man is being kept in jail pretrial on charges that he possessed a stolen vehicle and fled police.

A DeKalb man on electronic monitoring in a burglary case has now been charged with illegally possessing two guns and a stolen motor vehicle and driving the vehicle to a store in Willowbrook and stealing items

A Kankakee man now faces several felonies, including a hate crime charge, in a Christmas Eve incident at Mac & Frankie’s in Bradley.

Following two vehicles being struck by gunfire in West Chicago, the police are searching for any leads, asking the public to reach out if they have information on any suspects.

McHenry County's highly touted Drug Court received word of a $1M funding cut from the federal government, calling the program's future into question. By the end of the day widespread cuts were reportedly reversed.

A man involved in a deadly Harvard stabbing 20 years ago fled to Mexico. Authorities knew his whereabouts for years before he was arrested, though he once topped McHenry's most wanted list.

A Bloomingdale man is accused of killing his son’s emotional support dog, Ace, prosecutors said

An attempted murder charge against a Lake in the Hills man was dismissed in exchange for a guilty plea to aggravated domestic battery in case where police tried for about 90 minutes to make contact.

Kankakee police arrested a Bourbonnais woman on the charge of forgery following a six-month investigation.

Two Lisle teens have been charged with sexually assaulting a female acquaintance in the washroom of a Naperville Walgreens, prosecutors said

A man knocked on the door of a 89-year-old Crystal Lake woman, claimed to make home repairs and then stole $15,000 from her, authorities allege.

Edwin Garcia, 21, of Lake in the Hills is charged with aggravated fleeing and eluding a police officer; authorities said he fled without his lights or and didn't have valid plates.

A Batavia man was charged with several felonies after authorities alleged they found files depicting child sexual abuse on his Kik messenger app.

An 18-year-old from Aurora was sentenced to six years in prison following a narcotics and weapons investigation during which police seized illegal drugs and more than a dozen weapons, including a fully automatic firearm.

Three recent high school graduates accused of sexually assaulting a classmate at a party in Roselle are facing additional charges

A Chicago man accused of killing his ex-wife and her husband in their Ohio home Dec. 30 made a brief appearance in a Rockford courtroom Monday, where he waived extradition to Ohio to face murder charges.

Manteno police arrested a Chicago man on alleged weapons charges last week.

In the winter months, police often see an increase in stolen vehicles, the Joliet Police Department said.

A Chicago wanted in the Ohio slayings of his ex-wife and her dentist husband has been picked up in Rockford and is awaiting an extradition hearing, according to officials records.

An Antioch man has been charged in connection with possessing numerous images and videos of child sexual abuse, many involving children under the age of 13, police said.

A Kankakee man was arrested by Bradley police for allegedly battering a woman on Christmas Eve at a Bradley business in the 1000 block of West Broadway Street.

A third customer has sued Fun City Adventure Park in Algonquin last year has filed a civil lawsuit seeking more than $50,000 claiming, like the others, that she was injured after jumping into a foam pit.

Aftermath Services, a biohazard, forensic and crime scene clean-up company that prioritizes discreet and compassionate services, is expanding with a new facility in Yorkville.

Oswego police officers responded about 5:54 a.m. to a report of a burglary that had already occurred in the 2300 block of U.S. Route 34.

A former McHenry man and registered sex offender is accused in Arkansas of kidnapping, sexually assaulting a child and threatening her with a firearm, according authorities there.

Quintin Mullen, 35, of Yorkville, was taken into custody by members of the United States Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office.

A Glendale Heights man has been charged with firing a bullet through the wall of his apartment into the neighboring apartment just inches from where four children, ages 4 to 14, were sleeping, authorities said

A Bradley man was arrested by Kankakee Area Metropolitan Enforcement Agency agents Tuesday on numerous weapons and drug charges.

The Kankakee Area Metropolitan Enforcement Agency with assistance from local Kankakee and Bradley police departments, arrested two men Tuesday.

A year after two brothers were fatally shot at an early New Year’s Day gathering in a residence on Kankakee’s eastside, Kankakee police investigators have been unable to make an arrest.

A Plano man was charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor following an attempted home invasion in Montgomery on the morning of Jan. 4.

As a Marengo woman awaits adjudication in a fifth drunken-driving case from 2024, she has been charged with DUI again, according to court records.

State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit of Oswego called the shooting of Renee Nicole Good a profound failure of accountability and a moment that demands national action. Suburban activist says communities need to ban ICE from public spaces.

Charles Gozzola, who went to prison for killing his wife in 2000 and was convicted last year of domestic violence, was denied his attempt to expunge a 2024 domestic battery case for which he was acquitted.

Bruce Bennett, 73, was convicted by a jury on 12 felony counts for predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and two felony counts for aggravated criminal sexual abuse.