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Jasen Bell’s death is being investigated as a homicide, police say.

Mason Santiago, 19, and Tyler R. Koscinski, 20, both of New Lenox, were killed in a crash on Interstate 80 in Will County.

Clay Russell, 61, was pronounced dead Sunday on Interstate 55 in Wilmington.

A 2-year-old child in Joliet who was fatally stabbed by his 6-year-old brother earlier this month is remembered by his family as a “sweet soul” and a “fighter” who “brought joy to all those around him.”

A 26-year-old Aurora man is facing a felony charge after police say he fatally struck a pedestrian in Wheaton early Sunday morning and left the scene.

Officers responded at around 5:04 p.m. on Friday to a residence in the 2700 block of Fairway Drive for a report of a child that had been stabbed, according to a news release from the Joliet police

A motorcyclist was killed Tuesday in a crash in Lisle

Chad T. Richards, 23, of Loves Park, Illinois was scheduled to appear in court Monday on charges he killed 21-year-old Kara Welsh of Plainfield on Friday.

Kara Welsh, 21, of Plainfield was found shot multiple times in an apartment near the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus Friday night. Welsh would have started her senior year on Tuesday.

An Oct. 15 trial date has been set in Whiteside County Circuit Court.

A motorcycle operator was killed following a two-vehicle crash in Joliet on Thursday evening at the intersection of North Larkin Avenue and Ingalls Avenue.

More than two years after he was charged with aggravated battery, the case of a Rock Falls man accused of beating a neighbor so badly that he died almost three weeks later is in limbo.

A body was found in the Rock River around 11 a.m. Tuesday in the 4300 block of north Illinois Route 2, discovered by an individual searching for fossils along the river, Ogle County Sheriff Brian VanVickle says.

Courtney Miller, 18, who was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Mokena has been identified by the Will County Coroner’s Office.

An 18-year-old girl was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Mokena, police said. A 47-year-old driver was issued citations and the investigation remains ongoing.

Grundy County Coroner John Callahan announced Wednesday that he is investigating the death of Jaime A. Olave, 51, Aurora, after an incident early Monday morning in Minooka.

The victims in the Friday shooting were Jose Munoz, 36, of Romeoville, and Moses Rogers, 29, of Woodridge, according to the DuPage County Coroner’s Office.

Violeta Lara, 18, was pronounced dead on Saturday afternoon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago where she had been hospitalized for her injuries from an Aug. 4 accident.

Responding deputies, with the assistance of the Whiteside County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit, determined the motorcycle was traveling north on Sand Road when it left the road and continued north in the east ditch of Sand Road before coming to rest on its side.

The driver of a Ford Mustang was killed when her car crossed into the path of an oncoming pickup truck on Route 30 near Joliet on Monday morning.

A Rutland man who was driving a tractor in September 2023 when it collided with a motorcycle, killing its driver, was charged Friday with reckless homicide, DeKalb County court records show.

Jayden Velazquez-Garcia, 19, of Plainfield, was identified as the man who died from the shooting on Wednesday, according to the Will County Coroner’s Office.

Whiteside County jury on Friday convicts Steven W. Coleman of murder, four arson-related charges in 2020 Sterling apartment fire that left three dead.

Steven W. Coleman is charged with arson and six counts of first-degree murder in the fire that killed two children and a woman at Western Apartments.

A third man has been taken into custody by the Joliet Police Department in the fatal 2021 shooting of 18-year-old Jwaun Jones.

A multi-vehicle crash on the west side of Joliet Wednesday evening resulted in one person being killed. Police responded to the scene around 6:30 p.m. on West Jefferson and Airport Drive, according to Joliet police.

Alan E. Thompson Jr., 52, pleaded guilty to aggravated driving under the influence in connection with the collision that killed Timothy D. Gonigam, president of Astec Mobile Screens, in 2021.

A defense attorney argued a Shorewood man and his girlfriend were at the mercy of a Joliet mass shooting suspect, who was "singing songs about killing people." The Shorewood man faces charges linked to two random shootings.

Joliet police learned the man was just released from the Will County Detention Center

A 69-year-old Sandwich woman died following a single-vehicle rollover crash near Millington in La Salle County.

More than 20 spent shell casings were discovered at the scene of where Tenzell Terry, 25, of Joliet, was gunned down in Joliet.

A 2014 vehicle driven by Angelo Lujano-Pagliuca, 25, left the roadway and struck a tree, police said. Troopers responded to the incident about 2 a.m. on Sunday.

Charges filed in each of two fatal Whiteside County crashes have been dismissed after the Whiteside County State's Attorney’s Office made motions saying more investigation is needed in each case.

Hector Castillo, 75, died as a “result of a motor vehicle, pedestrian crash” in Joliet, according to a statement on Sunday from Will County Coroner Laurie Summers’ Office.

Vehicle was traveling west on West Henry Road toward Lowell Park Road before overturning, sheriff says.

Authorities have not yet released the name of the teenager who died in the crash Wednesday night.

At around 7:25 p.m. on Tuesday, the Bolingbrook Police Department responded to the 100 block of South Bolingbrook Drive for a report of a person who had been stabbed.

The shooting that led to the death of a Bolingbrook man on Thursday had "involved acquaintances and is not a random act," police officials said.

The Kenworth semi-tractor was westbound on Pines Road, pulling a flatbed trailer with wood pallets, when the crash occurred.

Melissa Aud-Headlee, 35, and mother of three children, was killed in Saturday - the day before Mother's Day - in front of her Joliet home by her estranged husband Michael “Mikey” Aud-Headlee, 32, of Carmi.

A 74-year-old woman has been identified as the driver of a car that struck and killed a Downers Grove woman on Ogden Avenue Thursday night, authorities said.

A 65-year-old woman was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Downers Grove Thursday night on the 600 block of Ogden Avenue.

A Batavia woman has been identified as the driver in a fatal 2023 accident on a Roosevelt Road.

Single-vehicle crash was in the 1000 block of North Freeport Road, north of Polo.

A 29-year-old Cortland woman died of her injuries Thursday, a day after a motorcycle crash in Aurora.

An 18-year-old driver from Maple Park was killed Tuesday morning after her SUV was struck by a semi truck at Route 47 and Waubonsee Drive in Sugar Grove.

One of the grants will allow the Kane County Coroner to hire a community liaison to connect residents with the county’s opioid reduction efforts.

A change-of-plea hearing for a 22-year-old Dixon man charged in the deaths of two Dixon 14-year-olds, which was scheduled to take place Tuesday, did not go off as planned because of some procedural issues.

The traffic charges against the teen driver of a pickup truck that investigators said failed to stop at an intersection on March 28, resulting in the deaths of his three teen passengers, have been dismissed for now.

A St. Charles man was killed in a head-on crash with a utility pole near the intersection of Route 64 and Anderson Road on Friday. April 12.