Crash

A car crashed into the front of a local business on Jan. 29, leaving significant damage but causing no injuries, police said.

One person is dead and two others are injured after a car went off the roadway and went airborne before landing near a creek in unincorporated Homer Township.

A Joliet woman whose driver’s license had already been revoked is charged with a DUI after the car she was driving crashed into a semi-trailer truck, police said.

Richard Wayt, 77, and Kathleen Wayt, 63, were identified as the people who were killed in the crash in Peotone Township in Will County.

Two people were killed and four others injured in a three-vehicle crash involving a garbage truck near Peotone in Will County.

Officials said they were still searching for other casualties but did not believe there were any survivors, which would make it the deadliest U.S. air crash in nearly 24 years

Authorities say everyone aboard an American Airlines jet that collided with Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington is feared dead

Emergency crews responded to a multiple vehicle crash at the intersection of Illinois Route 251 and May Road on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 in Peru. The crash happened at 12:44p.m. Ambulances from Peru, La Salle, Mendota Spring Valley, and Oglesby responded to the scene. Five people were taken from the scene at least two were extricated.

A two-vehicle crash in Shorewood caused injuries to three people and one of them is in critical condition at a hospital in Joliet.

A Joliet man is hospitalized with serious but stable injuries after a crash involving three vehicles at Ruby and North Broadway streets Friday night.

A termination hearing for a Joliet police officer was expected to begin Monday. But a member of the board for the hearing was on a train that was involved in a crash.

Joliet police responded to a traffic collision at 2:56 a.m. Sunday in the area of North Chicago and Benton streets that caused two people to be injured. Police said those involved in the crash may have been involved in an altercation on Saturday night.

A 31-year-old customer who inside of a Joliet McDonald’s was struck in the leg by a table and shattered glass after a vehicle plowed into the restaurant, police said.

The driver of an Illinois Department of Transportation snow plow died Monday after it collided with a Canadian National Railway train in Iroquois County

A Lockport woman was issued a citation for allegedly violating Scott’s law by crashing into the rear end of a parked Illinois State Police squad vehicle in Woodridge.

Two people were extricated from vehicles and hospitalized following a two-vehicle crash in Crest Hill.

Lake County Sheriff’s crash investigators are looking into a Christmas Eve crash that left one man dead.

Illinois State Police Troop 5 said they are investigating a fatal head-on crash involving two semitrailers that occurred Tuesday morning east of Grant Park on Illinois Route 17

A Wilmington man has been charged with violating Scott’s Law in connection with the death of an Illinois State Police trooper on Interstate 55 near Channahon.

The Plainfield Fire Protection District received a call Sunday morning that a semi-trailer truck traveling northbound at Interstate 55 just north of Route 30 had left the highway and landed onto train tracks below.

A Chicago woman remains in the DuPage County jail after authorities say she caused a crash in Oak Brook Wednesday while trying to evade police.

Carol Stream police are investigating a fatal traffic crash on Tuesday involving a vehicle and a pedestrian near the intersection of Gary Avenue and Stark Drive.

Illinois State Police responded to a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 in Grundy County on Tuesday night.

Winter weather contributed to a crash on I-80 at Briggs Street Thursday morning which resulted in two passengers being hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.

No one was injured Wednesday afternoon when a southbound Amtrak train struck a vehicle which was stuck on the tracks at the crossing at Bourbonnais Parkway and Illinois Route 50

A 69-year-old Bourbonnais man died as a result of a head-on crash today in Manteno Township

No serious injuries were reported Tuesday afternoon when a vehicle crashed into a medical office building in the 12100 block of Regency Parkway in Huntley

A car crash Tuesday morning ended in the at-fault vehicle striking a barber shop at the corner of Essington Road and Caton Farm Road in Joliet.

Two vehicles sustained front end damage after a crash on Bethany Road near DeKalb Avenue in Sycamore.

A 26-year-old motorcyclist from Sycamore was killed Friday night in a vehicle crash at the intersection of DeKalb Avenue and Woodgate Drive, police said Saturday. This is a developing story.

A 30-year-old McHenry man was taken to the hospital Wednesday after he was struck by a car while walking along Riverside Drive, the McHenry Police Department said Thursday.

A motion was granted Friday to deny pre-trial release for a West Chicago man accused of leaving the scene of a crash that claimed the life of an 85-year-old female resident of Winfield, prosecutors said.

A Rockdale man received probation after he pleaded guilty to using his cellphone while he was involved in a vehicle crash that led to the death of pedestrian in Shorewood in 2020.

Lake County Sheriff’s traffic crash investigators are looking into a fatal crash that occurred in unincorporated Antioch.

The Channahon Fire Protection District responded to a rollover crash on Front Street in Channahon on Sunday afternoon.

A Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle, operated by a 19-year-old Joliet man, collided into a Nissan Rogue driven by a 19-year-old Romeoville woman in Joliet Thursday evening, according to Joliet police.

A 35-year-old Wheaton woman has died from injuries she suffered in a two-vehicle crash in Naperville, police said Thursday.

Lockport man is dead following a crash in Lockport, according to Will County Coroner Laurie Summers.

According to Mendota police, Jonas W. Hobbs, 45, was injured when the pickup he was driving crashed through a guard rail at 12th Street and Augustine Avenue and ultimately came to rest on its driver’s side in a creek.

Sept. 14 crash among 58 investigations aided by license plate reader cameras installed in August in Lee County.

Brian McPhillips, 32, of Rock Falls, who police initially identified as a Sterling resident, has been cited with unsafe passing and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, according Whiteside County court documents.

Brian McPhillips, 32, of Sterling was driving east on U.S. 30 near Riverdale Road when he attempted to pass an eastbound semi, met a westbound semi and collided with both, according to a Whiteside County Sheriff’s Office news release.

When deputies arrived at the scene they discovered the driver, Angela Appel, 48, of Thomson, was pinned in the vehicle, according to a news release.

All lanes on Route 6 (Channahon Road) in Joliet are closed between Hollywood Road and Terry Drive Friday morning as Joliet police investigate two crashes.

Sheriff: Three children under the age of 5 died Monday after the Jeep they were in was rear-ended by a truck on four-lane U.S. 30 in Clinton County, Iowa.

A Morris man died after losing control of his motorcycle when he possibly came in contact with a deer in Grundy County on Monday.

Another two-vehicle crash on Wilmington-Peotone Road on Thursday in Peotone Township has resulted in a female driver’s death. The last fatal crash on the roadway occurred on Monday.

A vehicle reportedly caught on fire following a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 in Shorewood on Friday morning, police said.

A motorcycle operator was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash on Wednesday that led to the shutdown of the 9th Street bridge in Lockport.

No citations were issued to the semitrailer driver involved in the deadly crash in Will County. The intersection where the crash occurred only has stop signs on South Center Road.