Stories about crime
A Minooka man wanted on a warrant out of Kendall County for aggravated battery to a police officer has been apprehended by members of the United States Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force.
A new detention hearing was held for a man charged with killing a woman at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse. A retired judge was found to have failed to follow requirements under a provision of the SAFE-T Act.
A Bolingbrook man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that damaged a laundromat and two vehicles on April 18 in Joliet.
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 Cook County correctional sergeant is seeking to end her marriage with a man charged with attempting to murder his neighbor in Homer Township. She's under an internal investigation but the sheriff's office declined to explain why.
Prosecutors are requesting a new pretrial release hearing for a man charged with killing a woman at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse. Prosecutors contend a judge refused to follow a provision of the SAFE-T Act when allowing the man's jail release.
A Joliet woman who was killed in a murder-suicide on a public street on Saturday alleged in court filings that her husband was physically abusive to her, did not fear the police and would take away her phone so she could not call for help.
The Kane County State’s Attorney’s and Sheriff’s offices announced Saturday night that Isaiah Fields, 22, of the 5000 block of West Maple Avenue in Chicago, was arrested Friday.
The incident occurred sometime Tuesday evening in the Lockport Heights neighborhood, just outside the Lockport city limits off Smith Road and IL Route 171 (Archer Avenue).
In exchange for $16,000, a woman agreed to drop her lawsuit claiming false arrest against the City of Joliet and a police detective.
Officers responded to a report of an active fight in a parking lot in the 1100 block of South Broadway Avenue on Tuesday, April 30, involving three individuals.
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.
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.
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."
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.