A 45-year-old male was found in the area of McDonough Street and South Ottawa Street with multiple stab wounds, Joliet police said.

A Michigan man is accused of starting a fire inside the Super 8 motel in Crystal Lake Monday, and the manager who extinguished it is being praised as a “bonafide hero.”

Bradley police arrested two men Nov. 5 for allegedly passing counterfeit $100 in Bradley.

An Aurora middle school teacher has been charged with sexually assaulting a former student who is underage, DuPage County authorities said Saturday.

A Kankakee man was arrested by Kankakee police following an incident in which he allegedly threatened a neighbor with a firearm.

A road rage incident in Kankakee Nov. 6 led to the arrest of a Kankakee man.

Officers were called to a Batavia home at 5:44 p.m. Friday after a resident reported seeing two unknown men inside the house while remotely monitoring a home surveillance system, Batavia police said.

A Crystal Lake man is accused of “repeatedly” sexually abusing and assaulting a child from 2018 through 2023, when she was between 6 and 10 years old, a McHenry County judge said.

A Crystal Lake man with two pending cases from 2021, alleging he solicited and possessed images of child sex abuse, has been detained again on new, similar charges.

A man was taken into custody outside the McHenry County courthouse Wednesday by agents wearing masks and Homeland Security vests who witnesses said smashed the window of his car before detaining him.

A man has admitted to threatening children who were riding bikes at Crystal Lake South High School and telling them that he was going to shoot them.

An IDOT worker told a Shannon woman who admitted to hitting him with her car on a Marengo roadway that although his “life has changed forever,” he forgives her.

After a full-day’s work, a Whiteside County jury was seated Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, to hear a wrongful death civil case that could see the jury asked to award tens of millions of dollars to a Sterling firefighter’s widow and children.

A Kewanee man admitted in McHenry County court that he killed a woman’s cat after physically abusing the woman in Harvard following the 2023 Super Bowl.

A Villa Park teenager accused of punching a Villa Park police officer in the face after leading police on a high-speed chase will remain in jail until at least his next court appearance, prosecutors said

A judge has ordered the Will County Sheriff’s Office to pay a Mokena man more than $19,000 following the dismissal of a forfeiture case that his attorney claimed involved “outrageous misconduct.”

Charges have been dismissed against two Chicago men who were accused of scamming a Spring Grove couple out of $100,000, though one of the defendants paid back half the money, officials said.

An Addison man has been charged with felonies after authorities said he fired multiple gunshots at police, striking one officer in a protective vest during a four-hour standoff at his home Thursday.

A McHenry woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $22,000 from her child’s estate and was sentenced to 30 months of "second-chance probation" – a chance to wipe it clean from her record.

A man fired multiple gunshots at police officers, striking one in a protective vest, during an hourslong standoff Thursday at an Addison home, authorities said.

An Island Lake man had been accused of viewing thousands of videos depicting child sexual abuse that one investigator called among "the worst" he'd seen. The man pleaded guilty to one video and is headed to prison.

Manteno police arrested David T. Varghese, of Manteno, after he allegedly drove his vehicle toward two juveniles in a business parking lot Monday.

A man accused of threatening to kill Barrington Hills police officers in a video he posted on YouTube has been found unfit to stand trial.

Fox Lake Police Department investigators have arrested a man in connection with the shooting that occurred Oct. 9.

A Wheaton man charged with possessing images of child pornography and failing to register as a sex offender will remain in jail until at least his next court appearance

The Tri-County Auto Theft Task Force, which includes law enforcement agencies in Kankakee, Will and Grundy counties, on Monday received a $2.14 million state grant.

Raymond Link is accused of attempted murder of a woman he allegedly attacked in a McHenry park last year and of a man who tried to stop him. Link's lawyers are exploring an insanity defense, court records show.

Krystal L. Dean, 39, of Joliet, was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals and violation of owner duties under the Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act, according to Joliet police.

A sex offender has been accused of recording himself having sexual contact with an underage girl.

A Florida man is accused of exposing himself to a child in a Fox River Grove park and urinating on the floor of the police station.

A man with a past violent conviction was detained after he was accused of starting a vehicle fire near Harvard and wielding a butcher knife when authorities arrived, a prosecutor said Thursday.

An Arizona woman who traveled to McHenry County with her son – smuggling 120,000 fentanyl pills as alleged carriers for a Mexican cartel – was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison.

Officers' search of a Savanna residence on Tuesday led to the seizure of three assault rifles, unlawful firearm silencers, ammunition, high-capacity assault rifle magazines and firearm components, according to the Savanna Police Department

The suspect has been taken into custody. At approximately 5 a.m., Oswego Police were called to the Chick-fil-A restaurant for a report of a stabbing.

A car and a landscaping truck collided in Crystal Lake Wednesday.

A Joliet attorney was arrested after he was accused in Minooka of hitting a 4-year-old family member with a belt, police said.

Richmond police reported they responded to a call to help a Harvard man and ended up charging him with a Class X felony after he was allegedly found hiding with 28 bags of fentanyl.

The Fox Lake Police Department has arrested a Fox Lake man and seized firearms from the residence.

A current Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School student was arrested by Bradley police for threatening that he was going to bring a weapon to school Thursday.

A Belvidere man accused of firing a gun and restraining a woman inside a home in Wonder Lake earlier this year was sentenced to one year of conditional discharge.

Three people were arrested and five weapons were recovered at a residence by Kankakee police Wednesday.

A Villa Park woman accused of causing an accident while intoxicated that injured two women will remain in jail until at least her her next court date, prosecutors said.

An alleged road rage incident ended in the arrest of Kodi M. Meyer, of Coal City, by Kankakee police Monday.

A married couple found dead in a vehicle in Harvard were both shot in the head, the McHenry County Coroner said Wednesday.

A convicted felon from Wheaton will remain in jail until at least his next court date after he was allegedly found in possession of multiple firearms, prosecutors said.

Crime Stoppers of DeKalb County is seeking information from the public to help police investigate reported thefts of electric scooters on Northern Illinois University campus in DeKalb.

A Lee County judge is allowing a Dixon man facing several weapons charges to be temporarily moved to a sober living home.

An Arizona man who smuggled 120,000 fentanyl pills into McHenry County was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison. His mother was also charged and they have alleged ties to a Mexican cartel.

Kankakee police arrested a Kankakee man Oct. 10 for allegedly trying to set an occupied residence on fire.

Cameron Cudney, 32, of Oakwood, was captured and arrested Friday by the Grundy County Sheriff's Office after he led them on a chase after he failed to yield while turning onto Illinois Route 47 from Interstate 55.