Tytis D. Givan, 19, of Oswego, and Tyrell I. Mays, 18 of Montgomery, are each charged with five felony counts of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon.

Detectives believe a residence on Joliet’s west side was targeted in a shooting that left a 17-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the mouth while he was asleep. 

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

Kane County Circuit Judge John Barsanti set Jan. 7, 2026 as a new date either for a plea or a trial for an elderly man accused of sexually assaulting minors.

After losing in court last month over the condition of a circa-1840 stone blacksmith shop in Geneva, developer Shodeen has filed its third request to raze the structure, according to records obtained by Shaw Local News Network.

An Aurora middle school teacher has been charged with sexually assaulting a former student who is underage, DuPage County authorities said Saturday.

A Kankakee man was arrested by Kankakee police following an incident in which he allegedly threatened a neighbor with a firearm.

A road rage incident in Kankakee Nov. 6 led to the arrest of a Kankakee man.

Officers were called to a Batavia home at 5:44 p.m. Friday after a resident reported seeing two unknown men inside the house while remotely monitoring a home surveillance system, Batavia police said.

The St. Charles Police Department are actively investigating an incident that occurred today at U.S. Bank in St. Charles.

A Joliet teen was hospitalized early Friday morning for injuries considered not life threatening.

A Genoa woman was charged after police allege she intentionally hit multiple people with her vehicle off Illinois Route 38 when they tried to flee from her attack near a rural field, according to records filed in DeKalb County court this week.

An Ottawa man faces up to 30 years in prison if firing shots that struck and injured another Ottawa man, police said in a Friday press release.

An Elgin man is charged with allegedly soliciting a child following a joint investigation between the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office and the Elgin Police Department.

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A Batavia chiropractor has been charged after authorities alleged he secretly videotaped more than 180 of his patients, most of them women and young girls, as they undressed or were nude.

A Crystal Lake man is accused of “repeatedly” sexually abusing and assaulting a child from 2018 through 2023, when she was between 6 and 10 years old, a McHenry County judge said.

The Coal City Police Department said in a statement on its Facebook page Wednesday that the 800 block of Division Street was closed briefly Wednesday morning to allow the Grundy county REACT team to serve a search warrant.

A Crystal Lake man with two pending cases from 2021, alleging he solicited and possessed images of child sex abuse, has been detained again on new, similar charges.

Oswego police have determined the driver mistakenly pressed the gas pedal instead of the brake, causing the 2011 Lincoln MKZ to crash into the restaurant.

Will County sheriff’s deputies responding to a structure fire on March 23 had discovered two emaciated horses on a Peotone Township property.

A man was taken into custody outside the McHenry County courthouse Wednesday by agents wearing masks and Homeland Security vests who witnesses said smashed the window of his car before detaining him.

A man has admitted to threatening children who were riding bikes at Crystal Lake South High School and telling them that he was going to shoot them.

An Aurora man was found guilty of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder for a 2022 incident in which one man in Aurora was shot dead while another recovered after also being shot, officials said.

An IDOT worker told a Shannon woman who admitted to hitting him with her car on a Marengo roadway that although his “life has changed forever,” he forgives her.

When the first Sterling fire engine arrived at the scene of a rural Rock Falls garage fire Dec. 3, 2021, Sterling Fire Lt. Garrett Ramos was on it. Just two hours after he arrived, firefighters would be removing his body from the basement – his death caused by asphyxia.

An expected November jury trial for a former DeKalb School District 428 employee accused of battering and grooming a student has been postponed by a judge’s ruling at the request of his defense attorney

Two Amboy men were charged with delivering methamphetamine in late October following separate investigations by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.

Undercover officers who met with a Joliet man last Thursday for a drug buy at a McDonald’s had attempted to pin in his vehicle and arrest him before he fled and caused a multi-vehicle crash, prosecutors said.

Yorkville police responded around 5:42 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 1 to 500 block of Yellowstone Avenue following reports of an individual smashing out vehicle windows.

After a full-day’s work, a Whiteside County jury was seated Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, to hear a wrongful death civil case that could see the jury asked to award tens of millions of dollars to a Sterling firefighter’s widow and children.

A Kewanee man admitted in McHenry County court that he killed a woman’s cat after physically abusing the woman in Harvard following the 2023 Super Bowl.

A Villa Park teenager accused of punching a Villa Park police officer in the face after leading police on a high-speed chase will remain in jail until at least his next court appearance, prosecutors said

Jamar E. Clinton, 22, of Oswego, is charged with two felony counts of intimidation, a criminal damage to property felony, and an aggravated battery to a police, according to police.

A judge has ordered the Will County Sheriff’s Office to pay a Mokena man more than $19,000 following the dismissal of a forfeiture case that his attorney claimed involved “outrageous misconduct.”

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.

An Addison man has been charged with felonies after authorities said he fired multiple gunshots at police, striking one officer in a protective vest during a four-hour standoff at his home Thursday.

A McHenry woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $22,000 from her child’s estate and was sentenced to 30 months of "second-chance probation" – a chance to wipe it clean from her record.

Selene M. Turner, 58, was reported missing on Tuesday.

Jonathon Gounaris, 33, is charged with shooting three members of the Ogle County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Response Team after a three-hour standoff when police tried to enter his home in Lost Lake, a rural subdivision east of Dixon in June 2024.

A civil trial will begin Monday in Whiteside County Circuit Court to determine whether the widow of a Sterling firefighter, killed in the line of duty in 2021, should be paid damages in connection with his death

Without waiting for a scheduled hearing on an ex-wife’s standing as a special representative for her late husband in a wrongful death lawsuit, a federal judge ruled on his own that she needed to file in state court.

Attorneys in the Xandria Harris murder trial informed the judge Thursday they had received most of the documents they requested during a Sept. 26 court date.

Derek Swanlund, 45, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the April 21 death of Cameron Pasley, 25, also of Mt. Morris.

Darryl Lee Jr., 19, of Kankakee, faces 11 felony counts, including first-degree murder, concealment of homicidal death and armed robbery.

Sarah Safranek is accused of suffocating her son, Nathaniel Burton, in the family’s Oregon home in February 2021.

Camren Hastings, 18, 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.

A man who faces a slew of charges – but not attempted murder – must remain in jail under the SAFE-T Act following his arrest in connection with a police pursuit and shooting in Joliet.

The prosecuting attorney told a Lee County judge Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025, that a plea deal is being negotiated in the case of a Dixon man accused of disseminating images and videos of child sexual abuse.

Ashley Tucker, 25, was reported missing on Oct. 14, 2018 and her body was found 12 days later in a yard in Lockport Township.