A DeKalb County public employee who’s worked for decades at the courthouse in Sycamore has been charged with defrauding the federal government’s pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program of more than $41,000, court records allege.

Kankakee police arrested a Kankakee homeowner for his alleged involvement in a June 13 arson fire of his garage.

A teenager was charged in connection to a violent attack on an elderly man during an attempted robbery in Aurora late last month, police announced Wednesday.

A Rockford cleaning woman has been charged with stealing more than $10,000 worth of jewelry from a client’s home in Glen Ellyn, prosecutors said.

Two Kankakee County Sheriff’s Department deputies suffered minor injuries when the squad car they were in was allegedly hit by a 13-year-old boy who was driving a stolen vehicle Friday afternoon.

A Carol Stream man accused of setting fire to his home, causing a large explosion and severely damaging his neighbors’ homes, will remain in jail until his next court date.

Kankakee police made two arrests Tuesday related to an Aug. 7 shooting of a mother and her son in the 200 block of Crestlane Drive.

A Cortland man who appeared in front of a judge Wednesday with his head bandaged has been charged with a hate crime following a bloody attack in DeKalb that police said was provoked by the man yelling racial slurs.

A DeKalb man who pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of drugs when he rear-ended a DeKalb County sheriff’s vehicle, killing deputy Christina Musil, was sentenced by a judge Tuesday to 14 years in prison.

A Chicago woman accused of leading Villa Park police on a high-speed chase in a stolen car will remain in jail until at least her next court date, prosecutors said.

A house in the 700 block of South Wall Street in Kankakee was struck by gunfire early Monday morning.

Kankakee police investigated two separate suspected robberies of two pizza delivery drivers approximately two hours apart Saturday.

A report of shots fired in the 700 block of East Hickory Street led to the arrest of Arturo Perez-Gallegos, of Bradley, by Kankakee police Saturday.

Bradley police said Kan-Comm 911 dispatch center received a pair of calls from an unknown subject who made threats toward Bradley East Elementary School and a Kankakee school early Monday morning.

Raul Ortega-Jaime, of Pembroke Township, was arrested by Kankakee police for allegedly being in possession of a loaded firearm Saturday.

A manhunt is underway in Montgomery after a pregnant woman was stabbed Saturday, police said. Authorities said the man wanted in connection to the stabbing could be armed and dangerous.

Downers Grove police are investigating a robbery that reportedly took place Friday night at the Walgreens on Ogden Avenue, authorities said.

The Third District Appellate Court of Illinois has affirmed the 30-year sentence of Martavious Robinson for a 2019 aggravated vehicular hijacking in Downers Grove.

A woman is recovering at a local hospital after she was stabbed in the neck by another woman late Thursday night in Kankakee.

Kankakee police are investigating the report of shots fired at two locations Thursday night.

A man who had planned to represent himself at trial this month pleaded guilty instead to robbing a DeKalb bank last summer

Batavia police believe there is a connection between a spate of recent car burglaries and a vehicle reported stolen early Thursday morning in the Tanglewood subdivision in Batavia.

A Chicago man has been accused of leading police on a high-speed chase through Villa Park Tuesday in a stolen Kia, prosecutors said.

An Elgin man has been found guilty of kidnapping and violently attacking a woman in March 2023, according to a news release from Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser.

Illinois State Police confiscated 40 pounds of cocaine during a traffic stop Saturday on Interstate 57 in Kankakee County.

The owner of an Addison ice cream shop is accused of secretly video recording multiple females, including two minors, at the shop, prosecutors said.

A Glen Ellyn man charged with supplying a fatal dose of fentanyl to his girlfriend has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, prosecutors said.

Unauthorized video recording has become an increasingly serious crime throughout the country

Video: Timothy Doll, who was sentenced Thursday to 52 years in prison for the 2023 murder of 15-year-old Gracie Sasso-Cleveland, spoke at his hearing: “A lot of you see me as a monster, and I deserve it," he said.

A DeKalb man who pleaded guilty to murdering high school freshman Gracie Sasso-Cleveland was sentenced Thursday to 52 years in prison. “You treated her no better than you would an ordinary sack of trash,” Judge Philip Montgomery told Timothy M. Doll.

Two DuPage County men are accused of armed robbery after allegedly robbing a man of his gaming console and cell phone at gunpoint, authorities said.

A Batavia accused of leading police on a high-speed chase that ended when he crashed his car into another vehicle will remain in jail until his next court appearance, prosecutors said.

The Kankakee River Metropolitan Agency will discuss a possible settlement in a federal civil lawsuit against former KRMA Executive Director Richard Simms at its August 28 board meeting.

Hunter S. Lauridsen, of Manteno, was arrested by Kankakee County Sheriff’s police for allegedly trying to set fire to a mobile home occupied by a woman and her 2-year-old son early Monday morning.

Former Glendale Heights Village President Chodri Khokhar pleaded not guilty Monday to felony charges of forgery and perjury.

A woman accused of kidnapping her daughter and found almost six years later because of a crime TV show, pleaded guilty Monday morning to child abduction.

A 31-year-old Cicero man was denied pretrial release Saturday in connection with a road rage incident and police chase throughout DuPage County Friday night.

The trial of Xandria Harris will be pushed back to February 2026 at the earliest.

A former Sycamore School District 427 employee accused of inappropriately touching multiple students pleaded guilty recently to felony battery in exchange for admittance into a behavioral rehabilitation program that could see his conviction reduced to a misdemeanor, records show.

Two people suffered gunshot wounds in a Thursday night shooting outside the Crestlane Apartments in east Kankakee.

Lead attorney not in attendance for scheduled sentencing on contempt conviction

Following a multi-day trial, former NIU running back LeShon Eugene Johnson was found guilty of six federal felonies related to his role in an illegal dog-fighting operation based out of Oklahoma.

An Aurora woman who prosecutors said was drunk and high when she caused a 2023 DUI crash that killed Naperville resident Sergey P. Ageyev, 67, pleaded guilty this week and was sentenced to four years in prison.

Five individuals have been charged with stealing merchandise from the Oak Brook Macy’s and Ulta Beauty in two separate incidents, according to DuPage County prosecutors.

The mystery surrounding the identity of a woman found dead in Will County in 1968 has been resolved, the Will County Coroner’s Office reported this week

An Elgin-area man has been charged with 28 felonies after authorities said a multi-agency federal and local police investigation uncovered “hundreds of suspected explosives” and other chemical equipment inside a Kane County home.

An Aurora man has been sentenced by a Kane County judge to 125 years in prison for his role in the 2021 murder of Edward Smith Jr, also of Aurora.

A Lombard teenager has been accused of planning to bomb an Islamic center.

Ex-police officer James Corralejo, 26, of DeKalb, was sentenced by a judge Thursday to four years in prison for driving drunk and causing a 2023 crash that killed Graciela Reza Contreras. “I don't expect to be forgiven," Corralejo told Graciela's family in an emotional hearing.

A judge has sentenced a suburban bank robber to seven years and eight months in federal prison.