Arson

They include a jury trial set in a Sterling triple homicide/arson case and a March trial date set in connection with the death of a pregnant Mt. Morris woman.

A Rock Falls woman is charged with arson after prosecutors said she set a car on fire in Rock Falls.

A Chicago inmate serving 24 years for home invasion and residential burglary in Will County was charged Monday in Lee County Court with aggravated arson, accused of setting fire to a cell at the Dixon Correctional Center.

Federal prosecutors are fighting an elderly Prophetstown anti-abortion activist’s request to plead no contest to trying to burn down a Danville clinic where abortions will be performed.

Bond was set Thursday at $500,000 for an Addison man accused of setting fire to an acquaintance’s car that was parked just feet from an occupied apartment building, authorities said.

A 34-year-old Sterling man who turned himself in to police after a house fire Thursday was charged Friday with two counts of arson, Sterling police said in a news release.

Manuel Escamilla, 23, of Joliet, pleaded guilty on Thursday to the aggravated arson charge, according to the Will County State’s Attorney's Office.

Three arson charges were added Tuesday to those already faced by a Sterling man accused of stabbing two people multiple times on Dec. 10.

The families of one of the children and a woman who perished in the Western Apartments fire in Sterling two years ago are suing the owners of the building and the man accused of setting it ablaze.

A candlelight vigil will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday by the family of two children killed in a horrific arson fire in Sterling two years ago.

A Yorkville man has been accused of starting a fire in a Plano Walmart, before setting two buildings on fire in DeKalb and then leading police on a chase, where he was arrested on his way to Dixon.

Wheaton police are investigating an aggravated arson that reportedly occurred May 18.

Bond was set at $50,000 Jan. 7 for a Downers Grove man accused of setting fire to his house last month.

DeKalb fire crews responded Tuesday to reports of a substance being lit on fire in the third-floor hallway at an apartment building at 930 Greenbrier Road, a building that was the site of a suspected arson Thursday.