Chicago-based GWC Injury Lawyers filed the two-count lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court. In the first count – wrongful death – the suit seeks more than $50,000 in damages and in the second count – survival act – the suit also seeks more than $50,000.

The single-vehicle crash happened Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, on Moline Road west of Yorktown Road, according to a Whiteside County Sheriff’s Office news release. She's the second Erie resident to die in a crash in less than a week.

The crash happened at 3:03 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, on Moline Road near Hillside Road, according to a Whiteside County Sheriff’s Office news release.

It is not known if the driver was having a medical emergency at the time of the crash, Oswego Police Chief Jason Bastin has said. The restaurant recently reopened its drive-thru and dining room and white and orange construction barrels have been placed in front of the building.

A Glen Ellyn man charged with supplying a fatal dose of fentanyl to his girlfriend has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, prosecutors said.

There is at least one fatality at an Illinois Route 50 accident Friday morning at the Kankakee and Will County line, police said.

A 19-year-old Addison man died Tuesday evening after losing control of his motorcycle in Hanover Park, authorities said.

The Kane County Coroner’s office is investigating the death of the toddler. Following the crash, the child was taken to Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora, where he was pronounced dead.

A 70-year-old woman has died from a crash involving a semitrailer in Will County.

Oswego police are considering the crash at Portillo's restaurant an accident at this point in the investigation. The car was driven by a 50-year-old woman, who survived.

Alexander Leamon, 23, of Lena, has been identified as the pilot killed in Tuesday’s crash near the Ogle County Airport.

A pedestrian was killed Monday night when she was struck by a car on Ogden Avenue, authorities said,

The pilot of a cropdusting plane died Tuesday morning when a plane crashed near the Ogle County Airport, between Oregon and Mt. Morris

One person died in a two-vehicle crash approximately one mile west of Manteno Friday.

A judge denied the pretrial release of a Bolingbrook man charged with killing his girlfriend, her 9-year-old sister, their father and grievously wounding their mother in a 2023 home invasion shooting.

Brandon M. Schmidt, of North Topsail Beach, North Carolina, was pronounced dead at Rochelle Community Hospital.

Ryan G. Walters, of Danforth, died in a motorcycle crash Monday on Interstate 57 in Kankakee County.

A 40-year-old man is dead, and another person injured, following a mid-air skydiving incident near Rochelle.

A crash involving two semi-tractor trailers resulted in the death of one of the drivers early Monday morning on the Kankakee/Iroquois County line.

The Illinois State Police issued a reminder for drivers to be careful on and around motorcycles as fatalities increase over the summer months.

One of two people who ran from a vehicle Elmhurst authorities were pursuing was fatally struck Wednesday in the northbound lane of I-294 in Elmhurst.

An elderly woman was pronounced dead Wednesday following a vehicle crash at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood.

A woman was killed in a crash at the intersection of Grove Road and Illinois Route 126 in Na-Au-Say Township Tuesday afternoon.

At 8:53 p.m., Plano police were advised by an Amtrak engineer that they believed they had struck a pedestrian near the area of 800 W. Main St.

A Woodridge man died Thursday night after his motorcycle crashed into an SUV in Naperville.

Joshua M. Conway, 19, of rural Polo and Michael C. Gul, 29, of Wauconda, were both found dead late Saturday night on the third floor of a Polo home.

An Earlville teen died Monday, June 9, 2025, in a two-vehicle crash north of Compton in Lee County.

Two people died following a single-vehicle crash in Joliet on Friday night.

John Callahan, the Grundy County Coroner, confirmed Monday that Alexis Kay Higgins-Weatherhead, 18, Coal City, has died after her vehicle was discovered in a lake at around 11 p.m. Sunday on Jugtown Road slightly north of Deerfield Drive.

A Rock Falls man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Whiteside County Circuit Court, then apologized for fatally stabbing the man, whom he considered a friend.

A two-vehicle crash in rural Prophetstown on Wednesday afternoon left one man dead and another injured, according to a news release from the Whiteside County Sheriff’s Office.

One person is dead and another one injured after an early morning crash on Interstate 88 near Lisle

An 18-year-old driver died from injuries he suffered in a crash in Joliet Township.

An off-duty Joliet police officer died Friday following a crash in southeastern Will County, the Joliet Police Department said.

Just one day before Kyle Cooper was set to be tried on a first-degree murder charge in a Rock Falls stabbing case, attorneys announced they’ve reached a tentative plea agreement.

A 22-year-old motorcyclist succumbed to injuries sustained in a Wednesday morning crash on Butterfield Road in Wheaton, authorities said.

The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said the initial investigation indicates the southbound motorcycle crossed into the northbound lane while traveling on Illinois 84 and collided with a northbound semi.

An ill detective and an abundance of pretrial motions – covering everything from whether to let a jury hear a 911 call to the possibility the Rock Falls Police Department violated investigative protocol – has led to a two-day delay in the start of a Rock Falls murder trial.

A 24-year-old man was shot to death Saturday evening during an altercation in Downers Grove, police said.

A Sterling man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday, May 7, 2025, to fatally stabbing a man found severely injured last August in a vehicle that crashed in the hospital parking lot.

An Ogle County judge will now be presiding over the felony case of a former Carroll County sheriff’s deputy accused of reckless homicide and destroying evidence in connection with the July death of a Mount Carroll teen.

A Whiteside County judge will decide Friday, May, 9, whether Kyle Cooper’s trial will begin Tuesday, May 13. That decision will follow a hearing on whether the Illinois Attorney General's Office will be able to intervene in the case on behalf of the Illinois State Police.

Jackson Miller, 13, of Prophetstown, died at the scene of the crash in the 18000 block of Lomax Road. Whiteside County deputies were dispatched to that location shortly after 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in reference to the crash.

The teen’s name has not yet been officially released.

A 2-year-old child from Bolingbrook has died after being struck by a vehicle over the weekend, authorities said.

A Woodridge man accused of killing a bicyclist while driving drunk and then fleeing the scene was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison.

A Lockport man has been charged with the May 2024 murder of his wife.

A 65-year-old man died in a single-vehicle crash in Frankfort where the vehicle struck multiple fire hydrants and a tree, police said.

Leonard Younge, 54, died from a fire on Wednesday in Joliet Township that is under investigation by the Illinois State Fire Marshal’s Office.

Officers are investigating the Bolingbrook homicide of 17-year-old Daniel Starks.