Several people were seriously injured Saturday night when a driver fell asleep at the wheel, officials said.

An Island Lake man is accused of possessing thousands of videos of child sex abuse.

The Illinois Department of Transportation is issuing a “SCAM ALERT" after reports of fraudulent text messages involving scammers claiming people owe money for traffic tickets, tolls and other fines.

If one candidate breaks 50% as everyone’s top choice, the tallying ends. But absent a majority, whichever option has the fewest top-choice votes is eliminated, and any ballots listing the last-place finisher as the top choice get added to those voters’ second choice.

The family of Staff Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr. was joined by city officials and roughly 100 residents outside his boyhood home in Joliet for a ceremony dedicating Albert Avenue in his honor on Friday.

A former DeKalb County elected official who once led the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity recently pleaded guilty to stealing more than $10,000 from the nonprofit, court records show.

Fifty-three years after the “Pine Village massacre,” in which Carl Reimann shot dead two patrons and three restaurant workers, the niece of one of the victims is campaigning against Reimann being fully released from parole.

Hilary Agnello, a Crystal Lake South dean and former Prairie Ridge volleyball coach, now faces for serous charges of aggravated DUI in a crash in May that caused a serious injury, court records show.

Hundreds of ZIP codes in Illinois are high-risk for lead exposure, according to a news release from IDPH