SAFE-T Act

Homer Glen couple Alexa Balen and Edward Weiher are petitioning again for pretrial release in their child endangerment case following the death of the 2-year-old daughter. The hearing was continued until January.

A Sterling man is charged with several weapon and drug violations accusing him of being armed while possessing cannabis and intending to deliver the drug.

A Harvey man convicted of a 2019 shooting was not placed on house arrest when he was allowed jail release in Will County, just weeks before he was charged with killing a Chicago police officer, according to court records and prosecutors.

A Will County judge ruled a Chicago man charged with a fatal I-80 shooting should remain locked up under the SAFE-T Act. A prosecutor said the victim was shot nine times in the road rage incident.

Alexa Balen, of Homer Glen, who faces felony charges in connection with her 2-year-old daughter's death, was denied pretrial release in a Will County court on Friday.

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.

Johnathon P. Parker is being held in the Whiteside County Jail.

A Joliet man convicted of concealing evidence in a 2017 flare-gun attack incident that killed two women and a baby was briefly jailed on a charge alleging he trespassed at the courthouse.

A La Salle man accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old was granted home confinement on Tuesday. Three days later, he was charged with cutting off his ankle bracelet and trying to flee.

A Shorewood man allegedly hijacked a vehicle outside a New Lenox hospital and ran over an elderly man because he was “desperate and needed drugs to get rid of the withdrawal symptoms,” court records show.

A Will County judge will not allow a Joliet man charged with a gang-fueled 2021 mass shooting on Halloween to use cash bail to secure his pretrial release from jail.

A Will County judge has ordered a convicted felon charged with robbing a woman of an iPhone in Joliet to remain in jail.

A new judge assigned to the Joliet Halloween party mass shooting case may decide on Monday whether to release the defendant charged with murder. He was not let out of jail despite a pretrial release order from another judge.

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.

Jonathon Gounaris has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

How would you assess the SAFE-T Act? Maura Hirschauer: We have seen that the changes made in SAFE-T Act are working. Dangerous people are being held and kept off the streets.

Kane County State's Attorney Jamie Mosser and her Republican challenger Andrew Sosnowski, both made the case for being the best choice in the Nov. 5 general election.

A New Lenox woman was arrested in September after she was accused of coming up behind the Manhattan mayor’s wife outside Fritz’s Saloon, grabbing her by the hair and throwing her to the ground.

A Joliet man who was working as a 7-Eleven clerk when he was charged with a July 5 shooting told a Will County judge that he was threatened with a gun and acted in self-defense.

A DeKalb County judge on Monday released a Kingston man charged with attempted murder in a DeKalb stabbing, citing law that requires court rulings to consider how to mitigate public threat if released.

A Joliet man who was previously released from jail by a Will County judge has been arrested a second time after he was accused again of possessing a handgun modified to fire automatically.

One year after Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate the use of cash bail, the impact on the state’s criminal justice system appears to have been far less dramatic than people on either side of the debate had predicted

The Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a pair of cases that test the authority of local courts to hold criminal suspects behind bars while they await trial

A Joliet man charged with a robbery had been released from jail under an electronic monitoring court order in a separate gun-related case filed last year, court records show.

One of the two suspects in the shooting that damaged vehicles at the Joliet mayor's Hyundai dealership could be heard on video saying, “I’m going to try and hit that car,” prosecutors said.

An attempted first-degree murder charge was filed against a Bolingbrook man accused of setting fire to a homeless man who later died from his injuries.

A Philadelphia man is behind bars in Whiteside County, charged with trafficking and possessing 150 pounds of cannabis that he said he stole in northern California and was driving to the Chicago area to sell.

A search warrant at a west side residence in Joliet led to the alleged discovery of heroin, methamphetamine, syringes, pipes and pills, a police spokesman said.

Calls of “Justice for Sonya” rang through the sanctuary of a church on Chicago’s West Side on Tuesday at a rally hosted in response to the death of Sonya Massey on July 6. 

A man in Bolingbrook has died after he was allegedly set on fire by another man. The suspect was on pretrial release despite being charged with an offense eligible for detention under the SAFE-T Act.

A Bolingbrook man charged with setting a homeless man on fire had already been on pretrial release in another case where he’s charged with causing a fire at Little Caesars restaurant.

A Bolingbrook man is accused of allowing the shut down of an electronic monitoring device that was placed on him after he was charged with a battering his former girlfriend and violating her protective order.

A Joliet man recently charged with murder had been on electronic monitoring well before no-cash bail went into effect. He was released from jail on cash bail last year after he was charged with violent crimes, including attempted murder.

Nine months after cash bail ended in Illinois, the state is taking its first steps in publishing the data that crafters of the bail reform law saw as essential to judging its effectiveness

A new detention hearing was held for a man charged with killing a woman at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse. A retired judge was found to have failed to follow requirements under a provision of the SAFE-T Act.

Prosecutors are requesting a new pretrial release hearing for a man charged with killing a woman at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse. Prosecutors contend a judge refused to follow a provision of the SAFE-T Act when allowing the man's jail release.

On May 6, Polo City Council members voted to purchase six body cameras and four squad dashboard cameras for the Polo Police Department from Axon Enterprise, of Scottsdale, Arizona, for a total of $74,901 over five years.

A Chicago man has been charged in Will County with disclosing a woman’s private images on the website Reddit. He was arrested in Missouri and awaits extradition to Illinois, police said.

A Will County judge ordered the jail release of a man charged with a 2017 murder at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse but he suspended his court order to give prosecutors time to appeal his decision.

A judge granted default judgment after Salem Village Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Joliet failed to respond to a lawsuit filed against them over the death of a resident who was attacked by another resident.

Judge Dave Carlson will decide Monday whether Jeremy Boshears should be released from jail ahead of a second murder trial.

After spending more than a month in jail, a man was released when a Will County judge determined he was not charged with an offense eligible for detention under the SAFE-T Act.

The burglaries and other property damage incidents occurred between December 2022 and April 2023 resulting in damages of over $75,000, according to Batavia police.

A Will County judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of a woman charged with stabbing a dog in Crest Hill and swinging a knife at two people.

A DeKalb County judge on Monday ordered the release of Nathan P. Sweeney, accused of driving under the influence of drugs and causing the crash that killed DeKalb County Sheriff’s Deputy Christina Musil.

Safe Suburbs USA, a political action committee, is hosting a panel discussion on public safety in Kane County, with a focus on Geneva, from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Riverside Receptions, 35 N. River Lane, Geneva.

Newly released police records reveal the allegations that led to the obstructing justice charges filed against the girlfriend of a Joliet mass shooting suspect.

Will County prosecutors argue a Coal City man can still undergo a second trial for the 2017 murder of a woman at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse. The man is trying to get the case dismissed on double jeopardy grounds.

A Will County judge decided to release a former Joliet housing official from jail after his attorney raised issues about his client's medical condition.

After a Will County judge granted a new trial for a man charged with a 2017 murder at the Joliet Outlaws' clubhouse, the man is now seeking his release from jail under the SAFE-T Act.