Prosecutors said the Aurora man disseminated on social media a video depicting a child younger than 13 engaged in a sexual act.
When crews arrived at the house Wednesday, they found smoke coming from the roof and three sides of a two-story, wood-framed structure.
No one reported injuries in the crashes Tuesday night on westbound Route 34 near Frontenac Street.
Two residents were displaced after their home in the 3000 block of Secretariat Drive caught on fire Monday night.
The man gave the woman multiple shots of tequila before leading her to her bedroom and sexually assaulting her, officials said.
A Montgomery woman, 69, was walking along Galena Boulevard Sept. 27 when she was fatally hit by a car that then fled the scene, police said.
Sadie, who's paired with her handler Officer Grant Weil, completed an extensive training program to learn trailing and following human odor.
Ednalice Pagan-Romney, a licensed psychologist from Aurora, was killed after her car burst into flames in a rear-end collision in Joliet.
A 31-year-old woman was found dead Saturday.
Law enforcement officers were directing traffic Friday morning to keep delays in the area to a minimum, officials said.
Detectives determined a 23-year-old Skokie man was the one responsible for making the threats Sept. 12 and Sept. 14, police said.
Illinois's second-largest city's ranking jumped 12 spots compared to last year.
Anthony Mothershed faces weapons charges after police said he fired a gun into a group of people at Willowbrook's Juneteenth celebration.
The 47-year-old man was found in the 100 block of North Calhoun Street and died at a local hospital from gunshot wounds, police said.
Rodolfo Madrigal of Streator was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals more than two years after police said she killed Andrew Contreras.
Firefighters were dispatched at 2:51 a.m. Thursday to a two-unit, split-level apartment building in the 900 block of Spruce Street.
The crash happened just before 2 a.m. Wednesday on Galena Boulevard west of Barnes Road.
Four people, including two students not on the bus, were hospitalized with minor injuries, police said.
The man sexually abused a girl younger than 13 between January 2005 and December 2011, prosecutors found.
The truck rolled over after it was hit by a 2000 Ford Ranger that had lost control on wet pavement, police said.
The road, which was closed from Highland Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue, reopened around 1:35 p.m., police said in an update.
The incident Thursday was the second this week to force an evacuation of the city's three public libraries.
The recovered cars were stolen between January and August, according to Aurora police.
The teenager was last seen around 1:05 a.m. Wednesday near Ogden Avenue and Waterford Drive in Aurora, officials said.
UPDATE: Aurora police said although the threat appears to have been a hoax, detectives continue to investigate the Tuesday incident.
His blood alcohol concentration was over double the legal limit when he crashed into a tree in 2020, killing his passenger, police said.
The boys, from Aurora and Montgomery, were charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of armed robbery, police said.
Neighbors reported the man told a woman with whom he was fighting Tuesday on Parkside Avenue to "shut up or I'll shoot you," officials said.
A 28-year-old Chicago man was found suffering from a gunshot wound Sunday evening on South Fourth Street.
The 30-year-old man faces a minimum sentence of 12 years in prison after he was convicted of four felony charges, officials said.
Officers said they were notified of two incidents when a man exposed himself between Fifth Avenue and Chesire Drive on the trail.
The man, 56, sexually assaulted a girl, who was younger than 13, between February 2014 and April 2017, officials said.
Three men were charged with first-degree murder after police say they fatally shot a man on the city's west side earlier this year.
Aurora police are investigating the 19-year-old's death as a homicide, officials said.
A 2022 Chevy truck was driving west on East New York Street around 5:45 p.m. Wednesday when it crashed into a child riding a bike.
The intersection will be closed for several hours Thursday while police remove power lines, officials said.
Police are expecting to be at the scene for a few hours, according to an alert.
The crash occurred around 12:45 p.m. near the intersection of Route 59 and 75th Street in Aurora.
A total of 30 firefighters were called to the fire that broke out in a third-floor apartment in the 300 block of Old Indian Trail.
A 62-year-old Wheaton man died of a drug overdose in March 2021 after the Aurora man went to his house and sold him cocaine, officials said.