Crime and Courts

Plainfield Police Sgt. Luke Ostreko said a career in law enforcement can "offer so much if you’re willing to be invested in it and take the time to make it what you want it to be."

Will County forensic interviewers work on the front lines with police and prosecutors with fighting crimes against children. The interviewers allow child victims to "finally have a voice" and share their story.

Brenden Stanley enters not guilty plea to six counts, one accusing him of a victim younger than 13.

A 22-year-old Crest Hill man has been charged with shooting a man to death last week in Woodridge

Cory Love was accused of pushing woman off toilet, then attempting to strangle her and shove her head into toilet.

A Will County judge blocked the pretrial release of a retired Illinois Department of Corrections sergeant charged with shooting and killing his son at a Plainfield forest preserve.

A Chicago man charged with attempted murder in an Addison gang-related case pleaded guilty last month to mob action.

A Crest Hill man pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of his infant daughter and he was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison, according to prosecutors.

Maurice Robinson Jr., 20, Joliet, was take into custody Tuesday, according to a news release from Joliet police.

A Chicago man has been charged in Will County with disclosing a woman’s private images on the website Reddit. He was arrested in Missouri and awaits extradition to Illinois, police said.

Two men have been charged with theft and home repair fraud crimes, accused of taking money and not delivering on promises to seal coat a driveway, replace a stone walkway and do other work at a Glen Ellyn-area home.

Donald Trump has been held in contempt of court and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case

An Addison man has been detained pretrial on child pornography charges.

A Will County judge ordered the jail release of a man charged with a 2017 murder at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse but he suspended his court order to give prosecutors time to appeal his decision.

Forreston High School presented Annie on Saturday and Sunday