The Highland Park man who admitted to fatally shooting seven people and wounding dozens of others during a 2022 Independence Day parade was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Robert Crimo III will get a life sentence for killing seven people at a Highland Park parade, but victims are testifying at his sentencing hearing, to which he did not show Wednesday.

An Island Lake man, who admitted along with a Glenview woman to cruelly housing 46 cats in a U-Haul truck for months, began serving his 40-day jail sentence last week.

Fox Lake has approved a pension settlement with Melodie Gliniewicz, the widow of Fox Lake police officer Joe Gliniewicz, who infamously staged his suicide to look like a line-of-duty killing.

A man has been charged in connection with a knife attack in which he allegedly assaulted multiple people, police said.

A 48-year-old Volo man has been charged in connection with having child sexual abuse images and videos on his cellphone, police said.

Nicholas Lopardo of Lake Villa allegedly shot off a gun, stole a vehicle, led police on chase and shot at cop cars in McHenry after a woman rebuffed his advances, prosecutors said at the opening of Nicholas Lopardo's trial.

Robert Crimo III pleaded guilty Monday in the Highland Park parade shooting that killed seven people. A jury had been seated for his trial and opening statements were due to begin Monday.

More than 2 1/2 years after a gunman fired into a crowd during Highland Park’s annual Independence Day parade, jury selection begins Monday in the trial of the man charged with killing seven people and injuring nearly 50 others that day.