The roadside safety check will be held this weekend in Elgin.
Congrats to Officer John Maertzig!
The attorney for the former daycare worker convicted of killing of a 16-month-old said new evidence shows the death was not a homicide.
"We are seeing a marked increase in the number of very young children who are being sexually and physically abused in their home."
The crash happened last week in Elgin.
Kenneth Ericson was taken by helicopter to a Rockford hospital following the Thursday crash in DeKalb County.
The 47-year-old driver was killed in the single-vehicle crash Thursday evening.
Jeff Swoboda will start his new job in Colorado on June 4.
The collision happened Thursday morning in Elgin.
The stab wound was within one-quarter inch of the victim's carotid artery, prosecutors said.
The man purposely popped a young woman's tire while she was inside a store and then attacked her after offering to fix it, prosecutors said.
Fire crews were called to a blaze at an apartment complex on Center Street Monday afternoon.
The crashes occurred within two hours of each other Sunday in Bartlett. Six people were also injured in the collisions.
2 died and 5 were hurt in a single-vehicle rollover.
The woman was taken to the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation.
One lawsuit claims she held a victim past his release date and kept him as a sex slave.
Police were told the man had a gun and was suicidal. He was taken to the hospital after being shot, authorities said.
There are two sessions available on April 28.
Marcos Leonardo Gudino was killed Sunday in the crash in Rockford.
Decynthia Clements, 34, was shot by a veteran Elgin Police Department officer on March 12, police said.
Authorities will be on the lookout for drunken drivers and other driving violations.
The video is expected to be shown to the family of Decynthia Clements this morning and released to media later today.
Adam Ochoa, 29, is accused of providing William Barratt with the fentanyl-laced heroin that killed him.
A woman is dead following the morning shooting along I-90 in Elgin.
An Elgin Police Officer is on administrative leave after he allegedly shot a 34-year-old woman while she was pulled over on I-90 today.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
A grand jury on Tuesday indicted William Wood, Jr., 50, on a theft charge.
A 16-year-old student was arrested Tuesday for threatening a shooting at Elgin High School, police said.
The single-vehicle collision occurred Monday morning.
Two more still face charges in the case. The defendants are accused of holding an 18-year-old woman against her will in Feb. 2016.
The 16-year-old boy has been charged with two felony counts of disorderly conduct and has been placed on home confinement.
Officers in Carpentersville pulled over a man and allegedly found 79 grams of marijuana and a gun in his vehicle.
Brian Thunderkick, 62, and his ex-wife were found dead in Thunderkick's home Thursday morning, police say.
The recognition ceremony will be held Friday evening.
A 47-year-old Elgin man was killed after being pinned between two box trucks on North Fairfield Road north of Route 176.
Police said the East Dundee man was planning to sell the cocaine.
Mark Hryniewicz has been with the local fire department for over 26 years.
A Texas couple is charged with selling the young girl to an Illinois family.
Sandra L. Baumgartner entered the plea Friday.
The blaze was reported Thursday afternoon at a home in Elgin.