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A 16-year-old Hinsdale South High School student is being held in a juvenile detention center after authorities said he brought a loaded handgun to school Thursday.

The season’s first hint of winter is expected late Wednesday with snowfall expected throughout much of the suburbs.

A shopper at an Elmhurst Jewel-Osco grocery store won $1 million last month in the Illinois Lottery.

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One driver is dead and another critically injured following a crash involving two semitrailer trucks early Tuesday morning near Carpentersville.

A 42-year-old Lombard man was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison after pleading guilty last year to drug-trafficking and terrorism-related charges.

A fire broke out in a two-story, multifamily building in Carpentersville early Monday, displacing the occupants of 12 units.

An unnamed Illinois Lottery player won a $9.2 million jackpot recently after the lottery machine at an Addison grocery store wouldn’t let him purchase the lottery ticket he wanted.

A man stole hundreds of vases from cemeteries in McHenry and Lake counties, authorities say, and was selling them for scrap.

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A 14-year-old Glenbard East High School student is facing multiple felony charges after a gun was recovered in a restroom at the high school just before classes were dismissed Tuesday afternoon.

Lombard officials said the male student is expected to appear in a DuPage County courtroom today after being charged with unlawful use of a weapon at school and possession of a firearm by a minor.

A 39-year-old Warrenville man is facing murder charges after authorities said he shot his wife to death Thursday.

A 70-year-old Bartlett man was cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian after police said he struck a woman in a crosswalk Monday afternoon

A West Chicago teenager was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree murder in the brutal 2023 beating of an autistic man.