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A 38-year-old man has been sentenced to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a young child in Lake in the Hills.
Steven D. West was charged with four counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a victim under the age of 13.
The man is accused of pretending to be an officer, pulling over a vehicle and trying to arrest the female driver in Huntley.
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“There does not appear to be an immediate threat to the public at this time,” Algonquin Deputy Police Chief Ryan Markham said.
Jeffrey L. Gwin was previously convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in 1992, authorities said.
The standoff at the Holiday Inn Express led to nearby Jacobs High School issuing a shelter in place Wednesday afternoon.
Algonquin police are asking residents to avoid the area of the Holiday Inn Express on Bunker Hill Drive as the man won't leave his room.
Arin Fox was charged with the 2020 stabbing deaths of Noreen and Leonard Gilard. Charges can be reinstated if Fox's condition improves.
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A Marengo man has pleaded guilty to driving drunk when he crashed into a woman on a go-kart and fled the scene, police said.
The Lake in the Hills man was a teacher and wrestling coach at Holmes Middle School in Wheeling prior to his arrest in early 2020.
No injuries were reported after an RV caught fire and became fully engulfed in flames Thursday afternoon near Marengo.
The woman was seriously injured in the crash that happened near Marengo Saturday morning.
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The four golfers pulled the boy from a pond at Boulder Ridge Country Club on July 23 and performed CPR on him, police said.
Carlos Bedoya, 66, will spend the rest of his life behind bars. The children were in grades kindergarten through third grade.
He allegedly “pulled the hair out” of a child, who is under the age of 13, causing injury, according to court documents.
A 28-year-old man was found dead in a Lake in the Hills home earlier this year. Two men now faces drug-induced homicide charges in the case.
An Elgin man was seriously injured in the shooting on I-90 near Hoffman Estates early Sunday.
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The collision happened on Sept. 15 on Route 23 near River Road north of Marengo. Maria Flores-Hernandez, 25, died in the crash.
The 41-year-old Chicago man died after his truck drove off Charles Sass Parkway, rolled over and went into the pond.
The collision happened on Route 23 at River Road near Marengo Wednesday.
The collision happened early Tuesday on Charles Sass Parkway in Huntley.
Authorities arrested the 15-year-old student following the incident at Harvard High School.
The incident happened around 11:50 a.m. Wednesday in the 200 block of Grandview Court.
The Lake in the Hills Police Department was out in full force between July 12 and 31 keeping an eye out for speeders.
The fire was extinguished within minutes thanks to a bystander who used a garden hose before firefighters arrived.
The Joliet man jumped in to help his girlfriend's daughter before he went underwater and never resurfaced, authorities said.
Maxwell T. Swanson, 27, faced more than a dozen charges in connection with three undercover stings in November 2019.
The 71-year-old bicyclist was taken to the hospital following the incident Thursday.
A truck pulling a trailer with a horse in it crashed into a sedan in Marengo Township Saturday evening, authorities said.
A 35-year-old man was taken by medical helicopter to the hospital in serious condition after he crashed into the rear of a stopped truck ...
Fabian Torres has been sentenced to 38 years in prison for the 2019 sexual assault of a teen and stabbing of her and her younger brother.
The boy wandered away from his home in Lake in the Hills on Friday afternoon. His current condition is not immediately available.
A Harvard man who pleaded guilty to his seventh driving under the influence case, which occurred in April in Lake in the Hills.
A semi-truck driver was cited for running a stop sign and causing a crash that left a pickup truck driver seriously injured.
The Marengo man is charged with aggravated battery to a peace officer in connection with the Thursday domestic disturbance call.