Illinois State Police

The Joliet Police Department is partnering with more than 200 local law enforcement agencies to step up enforcement during Distracted Driving Awareness month.

A former Carroll County sheriff’s deputy has been charged with reckless homicide and destroying evidence in connection with the July death of 18-year-old Jackson Kradle of Mount Carroll.

After losing the case in federal court, former Joliet Mayor Bob O'Dekirk is pursuing his conspiracy lawsuit case in Will County against six people he blames for his 2023 election loss.

A Senate committee passed a bill this week that would give specialized training on human trafficking and establish coordination across multiple state agencies and partners

St. Charles police have been cleared of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a man who invaded a retirement home while waving a chain saw.

Joliet Police and Illinois State Police will be doing extra patrols the weekend of March 15-16 for increased safety during the St. Patrick's Day holiday.

Whiteside County deputies responded shortly before 8 a.m. Friday to 1706 E. Rock Falls Road following a 911 call reporting a disturbance.

A defense attorney contends Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s Office has no authority to prosecute a Republican political consultant accused of sending obscene messages to a Democratic state lawmaker.

The sheriff’s department received a call at 9:59 a.m. Friday, March 7, 2025, of a deceased person at the small rural home located about 3 1/2 miles east of Oregon.

An Illinois State Trooper suffered non-life-threatening injuries Saturday when their squad car was struck by a driver who failed to move over on Interstate 57 in Kankakee County.

A semitrailer caught on fire on Monday on Interstate 55 near Channahon. No reported injuries in the incident.

Brother remembers Oscar Munguia, 24, of Joliet.

A Crete man has been charged in Will County court with threatening to shoot Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in the face.

An initial investigation indicates the motorcycle was traveling south on Buell Road at a high rate of speed when it failed to stop at the posted stop sign at the intersection of Buell and Gaulrapp roads, according to Sheriff John Booker.

A Will County sheriff’s lieutenant’s fatal shooting of a hostage taker could have been the result of an involuntary trigger pull, according to a firearm expert’s analysis. 

Kyle M. Cooper, 36, of Rock Falls, is being held in the Whiteside County Jail in Morrison on a first-degree murder charge as well as two counts of aggravated battery in connection with the Feb. 14 stabbing death of Daniel J. Gordon.

A Channahon man died following on a crash over the weekend on Interstate 55 in Channahon Township.

The two men were formally charged Feb. 11, with the offenses alleged to have occurred Jan. 3, according to court records

A private investigator contracted by a Chicago law firm will handle the internal affairs investigation of a Will County sheriff’s lieutenant fatal shooting of a hostage taker.

According to a news release, Rock Falls police were dispatched at 1:50 a.m. Friday, Feb. 14, for a reported stabbing in the 600 block of West 20th Street in Rock Falls.

Illinois Route 126 in Plainfield is currently shut down between Illinois Route 59 and Interstate 55 due to a crash, the Plainfield Police Department said.

Illinois State Police are investigating a multi-car crash that happened on Interstate 80 near Larkin Avenue on Sunday.

A Joliet man is charged with a 2023 road rage shooting. Illinois State Police continue to make arrests in expressway shootings, which have declined from 310 in 2021 to 89 in 2024.

After a hearing to determine whether a Freeport man’s right to a speedy trial was violated and if the case should be dismissed as a result, a Whiteside County judge ruled Friday that he will stand trial on multiple sex offenses next week.

Icy road conditions Wednesday night led to multiple accidents in Whiteside County, Sterling Deputy Fire Chief David Northcutt told Shaw Local.

Richard Wayt, 77, and Kathleen Wayt, 63, were identified as the people who were killed in the crash in Peotone Township in Will County.

Bolingbrook woman was sentenced to three years in prison for stealing almost $2.5 million from taxpayers by fraudulently billing Medicaid-funded companies for services she did not provided, state officials said. 

The rifle used in a Will County sheriff’s lieutenant’s fatal shooting of a hostage taker at a Romeoville bank was tested by “two independent bodies” and was found not to have malfunctioned, according to a company executive. 

Richard Wayt, 77, and Kathleen Wayt, 63, were identified as the people who were killed in the crash in Peotone Township in Will County.

Two people were killed and four others injured in a three-vehicle crash involving a garbage truck near Peotone in Will County.

A Will County sheriff’s lieutenant who is being sued over claims that he wrongfully killed a hostage taker in 2022 at a Romeoville bank will face no charges over the incident.

A Sterling man indicted by a statewide grand jury on two drug offenses Jan. 21 was taken into custody at the Whiteside County Courthouse the next day after showing up for his court hearing for his five other pending drug cases and a weapons case

Global nonprofit Point 27 recently honored fallen Illinois State Trooper Clay Carns who was struck and killed by a passing vehicle near Channahon as he was clearing debris from the highway on Dec. 23, 2024.

Dozens of Illinois State Police troopers packed a Will County courtroom in support of Trooper Clay Carns, who died after he was struck by a passing vehicle last year on I-55 near Channahon.  The driver is charged with violating Scott's Law.

A two-vehicle crash in Shorewood caused injuries to three people and one of them is in critical condition at a hospital in Joliet.

The Illinois State Police have announced that data from 2024 shows a decrease in shootings on Illinois interstate roads for the third year in a row.

The Illinois State Police reports recovering 245 stolen and/or hijacked vehicles from October through December.

Blessing J. Aoci was abducted around 6 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, near the intersection of 14th 1/2 Street and 13th Avenue, Rock Island, according to Rock Island police.

Illinois State Police arrested Joseph L. Lookingbill, 35, of Kankakee, on Tuesday for allegedly being in possession of child sexual abuse images.

A 35-year-old Kankakee man has been arrested for allegedly being in possession of child pornography

A Lockport woman was issued a citation for allegedly violating Scott’s law by crashing into the rear end of a parked Illinois State Police squad vehicle in Woodridge.

Illinois State Police Troop 5 said they are investigating a fatal head-on crash involving two semitrailers that occurred Tuesday morning east of Grant Park on Illinois Route 17

A Wilmington man has been charged with violating Scott’s Law in connection with the death of an Illinois State Police trooper on Interstate 55 near Channahon.

The Plainfield Fire Protection District received a call Sunday morning that a semi-trailer truck traveling northbound at Interstate 55 just north of Route 30 had left the highway and landed onto train tracks below.

An internal affairs investigation has still not begun over a Will County sheriff lieutenant’s fatal shooting of a bank hostage taker in 2022.

The smell of raw marijuana alone is enough probable cause for an officer to search a vehicle, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday, reversing the decision of a Whiteside County judge and upholding the appellate court’s ruling.

Special traffic enforcement patrols conducted by the Illinois State Police in November resulted in 895 citations issued across Cook, DuPage, Kane and Will counties.

A Will County judge ruled a Chicago man charged with a fatal I-80 shooting should remain locked up under the SAFE-T Act. A prosecutor said the victim was shot nine times in the road rage incident.

A Joliet man has died from a shooting that followed a crash along Interstate 80 at Interstate 355 near New Lenox on Monday evening.

Illinois State Police responded to a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 in Grundy County on Tuesday night.