A 51-year-old Geneva woman was charged with multiple felonies after police alleged she spit in an officer’s mouth and threatened to attack her neighbors, records show.

Batavia police made 38 traffic stops from Nov. 21 to Dec. 2 in its Thanksgiving enforcement effort.

An Oswego man was charged this week after a three-day manhunt with federal authorities following a report of a home invasion and domestic battery in Sandwich.

A DeKalb man was jailed and denied release this week after being accused of sexually abusing a minor in a Walmart bathroom in December 2024, according to court records. Police said he had a history of approaching minors at the DeKalb Walmart.

A man convicted in a New Year’s Day 2005 drunken-driving crash in Chicago that killed a taxi driver and passenger has been charged with DUI and causing a crash near McHenry.

A man is being held in jail on charges that he led police on a high-speed chase in connection with a theft from a store at Oakbrook Center mall in Oak Brook.

Jonathon Gounaris, 33, appeared by video from the Winnebago County Jail on Thursday, Dec. 11, for a pretrial status hearing.

A man who shot a person in 2021 during a birthday party at an indoor amusement park in Villa Park has been found guilty of aggravated battery with a firearm.

A Plainfield man is facing misdemeanor charges after he was accused of threatening a family member with a knife, crashing his vehicle into a light pole and yelling at someone while waving a firearm.

In less than an hour, a McHenry County jury found a Belvidere man guilty of sexually assaulting a child.

Trevor Brandner is charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, six counts of criminal sexual assault, one count of criminal sexual abuse and four counts of domestic battery.

A DeKalb man who was shot by police during a confrontation after he wielded a knife inside a car dealership won’t spend any time in prison, though he pleaded guilty this week to attempted armed robbery, court records show.

A Joliet teenager has been charged with four additional counts of burglary and two counts of criminal damage to property following the investigations related to burglaries of local businesses, Joliet police said

Two Wisconsin brothers both pleaded guilty Thursday to shooting a firearm nine times at a home in Harvard knowing it was occupied, and each was sentenced to nine years in prison.

The incident was reported on Monday in the 200 block of Munroe Street in Joliet.

Derek Swanlund, 45, is charged with fatally shooting Cameron Pasley on April 21 in what police describe as a “domestic incident".

Charges were filed last week against a Plainfield Township man following a Will County Sheriff’s Office investigation of a shooting that was reported on June 5.

The Morris Police Department said Thursday that officers have arrested Teveon Wallace, 29, of Joliet, after he fled police during a traffic stop.

A Wonder Lake man who was convicted decades ago of murdering his wife – and who was cleared last year of domestic violence – has admitted guilt to a new charge of domestic abuse.

Mark Cooper, 48, was sentenced in absentia Tuesday, Dec. 9, following an outburst at his sentencing hearing, during which he verbally berated the judge and threatened to spit on a deputy.

A man was sentenced to 33 years in prison Tuesday in connection with the robbery of a Lombard store and the subsequent shooting of a police officer three years ago.

Officers responded to the shooting on Dec. 6 in the 500 block Ohio Street in Joliet.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed into law a bill banning Homeland Security agents from arresting people in or near daycare centers, hospitals, colleges or courthouses who are suspected of being in the country illegally.

An Elmhurst man has been accused of beating and stabbing to death a woman he lured to his home

An Ogle County judge ruled Friday, Dec. 5, to suppress evidence seized during a 2024 search of a Woosung man’s home in part because police did not alert the court that the man had a medical cannabis card.

Robert Disch, 54, pleaded guilty to taking tools, hardware, and motorcycle accessories on July 30 and Aug. 5 in the 4000 block of state Route 64, west of Mt. Morris.

Joliet City Council member Juan Moreno and his fiancee testified at a hearing Monday to determine if he was eligible to run for his seat in April due to city residency requirements.

A Mokena man will remain in jail under the SAFE-T Act following a Dec. 3 alleged domestic battery incident that led to a large police respinse.

A Rock Falls man was sentenced Monday to up to 5 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of possessing images of child sexual abuse

An Elgin man accused of posting an “explicit photo” of a Marengo woman on Snapchat, printing it on a T-shirt and twice violating an order of protection has been detained in McHenry County jail, records show.

Jered T. Vautsmeier, 22, pleaded guilty Dec. 4 to the misdemeanor offense when he appeared in Ogle County Circuit Court - other charges were dismissed through a plea agreement.

Nick Africano, Kankakee County’s treasurer and chairman of the county’s Republican Party, was issued a notice to appear for alleged disorderly conduct following a traffic incident which occurred last week in Kankakee.

Judge James Heuerman agreed to give the city of Rock Falls and two fire officials until Jan. 12 to file the post-trial motion that could put them on the path to appealing the verdict in connection with the 2021 death of Sterling Fire Lt. Garrett Ramos

A Hinckley man with a history of confrontations with the police was arrested on Tuesday after several hours of negotiations with DeKalb County sheriff’s deputies. He's the same man who crashed a car into the Sycamore Police Department in 2021, according to court records.

Prosecutors allege that a Crystal Lake man asked a stranger online for sexually explicit images of children ages 8 to 12.

A 29-year-old St. Charles man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 16 years in prison for dissemination of child sexual abuse images, according to the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office.

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 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.

A Batavia person reported losing $648,000 in a Bitcoin investment involving someone met through a dating app claiming to be a Naperville investor, police reports show.

The city of Rock Falls and two fire officials are taking steps that could pave the way for an appeal of a $31.5 million verdict issued against them in connection with Sterling Fire Lt. Garrett Ramos’s 2021 line-of-duty death

No charges were filed regarding the Nov. 23 shooting death of a Chicago man along East Court Street in Kankakee.

A Sterling man has pleaded not guilty to multiple weapons charges filed after an October shooting that damaged a residence in that city.

A fifth civil lawsuit has been filed against a Batavia chiropractor who is also accused of secretly recording more than 180 of his patients while they were partially or fully undressed.

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.

A former attorney for convicted killer Drew Peterson is seeking to have a Will County judge recuse herself in a case where he’s accused of violating another judge’s gag order. 

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

Scott E. Hagerman of Rock Falls was found guilty Wednesday of beating Ronald Fistler Jr. in August 2022 and causing a brain stem injury

An Ogle County judge set a Feb. 17 trial for an animal rights activist accused of falsely reporting a shooting at a rodeo near Rochelle