Crime and Courts

A motion was granted Saturday to detain three Cook County residents accused of stealing a high-end SUV earlier this month and leading police on a high-speed chase, prosecutors said.

A former employee of a Geneva dance studio, who was charged with theft of more than $100,000 from the business, pleaded guilty Friday.

A motion was granted Friday to deny pre-trial release for a Chicago man accused of possessing more than 100 grams of illegal narcotics and leading police on a high-speed chase, prosecutors said.

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for robbing a 7-Eleven store in Elmhurst.

The Morris Police Department announced Thursday that officers were called to a fight in the 200 block of Waverly Street, where witnesses said an 18-year-old woman had been stabbed.

Following a four-month long investigation, a Plainfield man has been arrested and charged with possessing child sexual abuse images.

A Harvard man who led police on a high-speed chase before officers found marijuana, LSD and nearly $14,000 in his vehicle was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Kankakee County Sheriff's investigators make second arrest in January shooting of 19-year-old man in rural Limestone.

A motion was granted Thursday to revoke pre-trial release for a Bloomingdale man newly charged with possessing a stolen car, prosecutors said.

An Algonquin man has agreed to an eight-year prison sentence for pleading guilty to disseminating material depicting child sexual abuse.

Jury selection is expected to take place on Monday for the hate crime murder trial of a former Plainfield Township landlord after a judge allowed the admission of his statements to a sheriff’s deputy.

The former president of a McHenry girls softball league has pleaded guilty to stealing $16,000 from the league and was sentenced to two years probation.

Andrew Gornick appeared Wednesday for a preliminary hearing on charges of stalking, cyberstalking and harassment through electronic communication – all felony offenses.

A motion to deny pre-trial release for a two-time convicted felon who was allegedly in possession of a loaded handgun was granted Wednesday, prosecutors said.

A 44-year-old Morris man is being charged with three counts of first degree murder in the death of his mother in August 2024.

A California solar company sued the county last fall after the Whiteside County Board twice rejected a special-use permit application for solar farm development on Prairie Center Road near Morrison.

A patient at a New Lenox hospital allegedly hijacked a vehicle on Tuesday while still wearing a gown and took the vehicle to his Lockport residence, police said.

A West Chicago man will serve 10 years in jail after his involvement in fatal accident

A man filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital, saying a surgical sponge was left inside his neck for four months, court records show.

Kyle M. Cooper, 36, of Rock Falls, is being held in the Whiteside County Jail in Morrison on a first-degree murder charge as well as two counts of aggravated battery in connection with the Feb. 14 stabbing death of Daniel J. Gordon.

A registered child sex offender solicited a child through Snapchat to send him “indecent” images, Lake in the Hills police and prosecutors said.

A 23-year-old Cary man is charged with reckless homicide in the crash that killed Glenview police officer Robert Fryc Sunday morning in Barrington.

A trial date has been set for Xandria Harris for the death of Bradley Police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic and seriously wounding of retired Sgt. Tyler Bailey in December 2021.

Prosecutors say he sent hundreds of threatening emails last month.

The two men were formally charged Feb. 11, with the offenses alleged to have occurred Jan. 3, according to court records

A private investigator contracted by a Chicago law firm will handle the internal affairs investigation of a Will County sheriff’s lieutenant fatal shooting of a hostage taker.

Defense attorneys once again seek to have a neuropsychologist evaluate a former Bolingbrook police sergeant who wants his murder conviction vacated.

Listen to the TALK-LINE interview with Ogle County State's Attorney Mike Rock talking about 2024 statistics and a criminal court case in Byron.

A crash Sunday shut down some lanes of Route 31 in the Crystal Lake area.

Two men accused of selling more than 25 grams of fentanyl-laced cocaine twice in May to an undercover informant are seeking pretrial release from the McHenry County jail.

A motion has to detain two out-of-state men accused of breaking into and stealing more than $135,000 worth of merchandise from the Rogers & Holland Jewelers at Yorktown Mall in Lombard

A second suspect has been apprehended in the investigation of a Jan. 18 shooting on Youngs Avenue in Joliet. He’s also charged with shooting on Girard Boulevard.

According to a news release, Rock Falls police were dispatched at 1:50 a.m. Friday, Feb. 14, for a reported stabbing in the 600 block of West 20th Street in Rock Falls.

A California who man admitted Thursday to scamming a Crystal Lake woman out of $30,000 was sentenced to two years conditional discharge and ordered to pay her back.

A Whiteside County jury has found a Freeport man guilty of attempted predatory criminal sexual assault of a victim under the age of 13 in connection with a reported assault at a Sterling school playground in 2023.

A case accusing the former lawyer of convicted killer Drew Peterson of violating a judge’s gag order will face further delays because of his new appeal to a higher court.

A second judge has found fault with a Will County sheriff’s deputy search of a vehicle that led to the 2022 arrest of a Joliet man on a felony gun possession charge.

Prosecutors said Thursday a Wisconsin man sexually assaulted a woman in her McHenry home while she was unconscious and he filmed it.

A Crystal Lake man has admitted to delivering cocaine and was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for other violent offenses

A judge ruled a Will County sheriff’s deputy conducted an unlawful search of a vehicle that led to the arrest of a Lockport Township man on felony gun possession charges.

A Downers Grove man has been charged with threatening state Rep. Anne Stava-Murray after allegedly leaving threatening phone messages for her in November 2024, prosecutors said.

Testimony got underway Wednesday in Whiteside County Circuit Court, where a now-22-year-old Freeport man is facing multiple charges of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl at a Sterling school playground two years ago.

Jurors convicted former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan 10 counts and acquitted him of seven, but could not reach a decision on six counts

A man accused of selling nearly 29 grams of cocaine to a confidential informant last year in a Crystal Lake parking lot was released from jail Monday pretrial.

A Crystal Lake man pleaded guilty to possessing video depicting child sex abuse and was sentenced to 24 months on sex offender probation.

A former Joliet housing official could avoid convictions on his record if he successfully completes his sentences in cases concerning cocaine possession and violation of a no-contact order.

A school bus company reported the theft of four catalytic converters at a cost of nearly $14,300.

Among multiple schemes, Madigan was accused of using his influence to pass legislation favorable to utility companies that doled out kickbacks, jobs and contracts to his loyalists

Testimony in the case against LeAndrew T. Adams, 22, is slated to begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, at the Whiteside County Courthouse in Morrison.