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A McHenry County judge issued an arrest warrant Monday for a man accused of posing as a black car driver, driving a woman from an airport to McHenry and then refusing to let her out of the car her until she gave him $1,400.

A man accused of sexually assaulting a child over multiple years in Marengo pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Nearly 4.1 million Illinoisans will be hurtling down the highway or charging into the airport between Nov. 26 and Dec. 2 — an increase of 63,275 from last year, AAA reports.

At the Goodman, the 8-year-old impressed audiences last summer playing 4-year-old Tommy in the Broadway-bound “The Who’s Tommy” rock opera.

A federal lawsuit claims an asthmatic inmate at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill died from the extreme negligence of staff after he was placed in a “dangerously hot cell.”

In the wake of the killing of a Chicago police officer, Will County's state's attorney said lawmakers should close a “loophole” with the SAFE-T Act. Supporters of the law said his solution won't improve safety.

The smartly written book for this biographical show elevates “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical” above the din of many jukebox musicals.

After months of warnings about the “fiscal cliff” facing transit agencies when COVID-19 relief money expires, Metra leaders provided a stark hypothetical Wednesday.

The cause and manner of the death of a 12-year-old girl last spring in Joliet has been deemed undetermined, according to a Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office report.

A vehicle “wanted for a homicide in Chicago” was involved in a crash on Interstate 55 in Will County and occupants were taken into custody, police said.

A formerly homeless veteran who served overseas in Iraq credited the Family and Friends Homeless Veterans Program in Joliet with helping him get his life back together.

Incumbent Democrats Johnathon Jackson and Robin Kelly appear to have easily won their bids for another term in Congress, representing Illinois Districts 1 and 2, respectively.

Authorities say a man who was recently fired from his job at Navy Pier returned to the Chicago tourist attraction and killed two workers before fleeing.

Autobahn Country Club in Joliet has grown to 540 members since it first opened 20 years ago and features one of the longest racetracks in the United States.

The Indige-Facts traveling exhibit at the Isle a la Cache Museum covers such topics as terminology, population size and the sovereign rights of Native people.

A lesser-known play by Shakespeare is in the excellent hands of England’s Royal Shakespeare Company, which presents "Pericles" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater through Dec. 7.

This “Hot” ticket is for the most fun date night you could hope for. It’s not just “Some Like It … “ – it’s pretty much everyone.

The Joliet Fire Department donated three ambulances to two Chicago south suburbs to help offset the high costs of buying new vehicles as they try to rebuild their emergency medical services.

A Will County judge granted the pretrial release of a Chicago man charged with the first-degree murder of another man who was killed in a shooting on Oct. 5 in Joliet.

A Chicago man was sentenced to 37 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the murder of a man who was lured into a vehicle, killed, robbed and then left lying on the parking lot of Denny’s restaurant in Joliet.

Four years after Speaker Michael Madigan's stunning political fall, he will spend the next two months in a Chicago federal courtroom watching as his long-awaited corruption trial unfolds to determine whether he picks up another moniker: convicted felon.

Illinois drivers can now grab bananas, paper towels and get a new vehicle sticker at select grocery stores, including one in Lombard, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced Thursday.

After four years of pretrial battles, the felony official misconduct case against retired Joliet police Sgt. Javier Esqueda has been scheduled for a bench trial on Dec. 16.

A Woodstock man, one of four charged in what police have described as potentially the “largest drug bust” in McHenry County history, pleaded guilty.

Will County Assistant State’s Attorney Katie Rabenda said communication records from the county jail show Kevin Johnson, 20, has been contacting state witnesses in his first-degree murder case. Johnson is charged with the murder of Charles Baird in New Lenox.

Funding for public transportation has become a top priority for some lawmakers over the past two years as transit agencies in Chicago area have sounded alarm bells on a looming financial crisis.

Pat Sullivan of Joliet said leaders in any capacity will benefit from these 54 essays.

Interstate access was opened Monday to more than 309 acres of Joliet land at Interstates 55 and 80 in a development known as the Rock Run Collection.

A Will County jury on Friday found a Crestwood man guilty of strangling a Lockport woman to death and smothering his 14-month old child four years ago because he didn’t want to pay child support.

A Will County jury was allowed to go home on Thursday night after 10 hours trying decide whether a Crestwood man is guilty of strangling a Lockport woman to death and smothering their 14-month-old daughter in 2020.

A Crestwood man has chosen not to testify in a trial where he’s charged with killing a Lockport woman and their 14-month-old daughter in 2020.

Forensic scientists in a Lockport murder trial testified to finding a Crestwood man’s DNA on the fingernails and the neckline of a T-shirt belonging to a woman whom he’s charged with strangling to death in 2020.

Former President Donald Trump heads to Chicago next week for an event cosponsored by Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of Chicago.

A police commander testified in Lockport murder trial on Monday about the evidence he gathered in the 2020 investigation of the homicides of a woman and her infant daughter.

A defense attorney in a Lockport murder trial sharply questioned the lead detective about his investigation of a double homicide that led to charges against a Crestwood man.

In 2020, two Lockport police detectives grilled a Crestwood man about his reaction to the news of his daughter’s death and why he didn’t show up to a memorial for her.

A forensic pathologist testified in a murder trial in Will County on Wednesday that even though a Lockport woman had a vertical cut on her left forearm, her true cause of death was from strangulation.

When the plot kicks into high gear, the performances, illusions and magic will keep you on the edge of your seat.

The family of a Lockport woman and her child testified in a murder trial on Tuesday. A former probationary firefighter-paramedic for Cicero is on trial on charges alleging he murdered the woman and their child.

A 12-member jury has been impaneled in Will County to decide whether a Crestwood man is guilty of strangling a Lockport woman to death in 2020 and smothering their 14-month-old daughter.

The family of a Bolingbrook man who was suffering from a medical emergency in 2023 has claimed in a lawsuit that two officers caused his death by using excessive and deadly force without lawful justification.

Critics praise Guido Sant’Anna, who gained international recognition in 2022 when, at age 17, he became the first South American violinist to win the prestigious International Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna.

“Inherit the Wind” is on stage at Goodman Theatre in Chicago, with star power including Harry Lennix of television’s “The Blacklist.”

DeKalb police on Friday arrested a Chicago man they say was wanted for robbing a credit union while armed this summer and getting away with more than $50,000 in cash.

A Chicago man is accused of swindling two women in an Algonquin retail area by asking them to donate money to help “underprivileged youths” the increasing their donations tenfold, authorities allege.

A Chicago man who brought a loaded gun into the ER of a McHenry hospital pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm with a revoked FOID card.

A woman serving life in prison for the 2013 murder two Joliet men has filed a new petition that asks a judge to vacate her conviction or her sentence under claims that her constitutional rights were violated.

Cubs President of Business Operations Crane Kenney describes agony of playoff baseball and other details of what its like to run a Major League Baseball team in Joliet on Tuesday.

A Chicago man is accused of threatening to "blow up" a homeless shelter where he'd stayed, run by McHenry-based charity Pioneer Center for Human Services. A warrant has been issued for the man's arrest.

A jury trial is set for next February for a former Plainfield Township landlord charged with killing a Muslim child and attempting to kill his mother based on their Islamic faith.