Police said a downstate man found with burglary tools claimed he had only been at the scene of an home burglary attempt in order to urinate.
Authorities identified a Rogers Park man as the person shot and killed Tuesday afternoon as he stood on the Red Line platform.
With the held of federal funds, Evanston police stepped up enforcement during late-night hours, when more fatal crashes occur.
Authorities said a tip about discussions of "fantasies" on his pornographic Tumblr blog led investigators to the coach and school volunteer.
An Evanston officer thwarted a second early morning robbery by a knife-wielding 19-year-old West Ridge resident, police said.
A teenager with a gun was taken into custody nearby, but police have yet to determine how he may have been involved.
A fire that began in the kitchen of an empty house was extinguished Wednesday afternoon by firefighters from Evanston and Skokie.
Officers reported they recognized the 25-year-old as he drove down Howard Street and smelled weed in his car after pulling him over.
No one is in custody after two men were wounded when "numerous shots" were fired Friday afternoon on Payne Street near Dewey Avenue.
A 72-year-old Skokie woman drove over a barrier and trapped a pedestrian underneath her car Thursday afternoon on Chicago Avenue.
A Skokie man who cut himself in a downtown Evanston break-in claimed to have been struck by a car while on his bike, police said.
Data released last week by the FBI show the amount of violent crime decreased nationwide in 2018 — but not in Evanston.
A 21-year-old Evanston man was arrested after police found a gun loaded with 29 rounds in his car, according to police.
An Evanston man has been charged with the rape of a second woman he met through an online dating app.
The training event is meant to boost people's knowledge and confidence in a worst case scenario.
Authorities say the victim also suffered facial injuries during the attack.
Evanston police were busy over the Labor Day weekend and previous weeks, issuing well over 200 citations.
A fire in a multi-unit building closed both directions of Sheridan Road in Evanston during Tuesday evening's rush hour.
An Evanston man is accused of luring a woman into his car and sexually assaulting her as part of a "fantasy."
The incoming graduate student was struck by stray bullets last year, hours after moving into his new home in Evanston.
She was pronounced dead Friday evening at Evanston Hospital after crashing into a utility pole.
Oxford University staffer Andrew Warren pleaded guilty to murder in exchange for prosecutors' recommendation of a 45-year prison sentence.
One member of the group brandished a stun gun while the other punched the pizza delivery driver in the head, knocking him to the ground.
He pulled a gun after an employee asked him not to go in the women's bathroom, police were told.
The 24-year-old is charged with robbing multiple gas stations at gunpoint while on supervised release following a counterfeiting conviction.
After more than two years in Cook County Jail, Virgil Burgs admitted attacking a man with a knife and a pillowcase full of canned goods.
Two employees were beaten and a customer was robbed at gunpoint early Wednesday, according to police.
Englishman Andrew Warren and fired Northwestern University professor Wyndham Lathem will face separate trials for first-degree murder.
Evanston fire crews were able to save the majority of a strip mall despite its dangerous construction features, the chief said.
Police are searching for a man who robbed a bank on Howard Street Thursday morning and fled on foot.
The man who targeted stores staffed by women with a replica revolver was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in state prison.
Police said a man pulled out a gun and began shooting during an argument in the parking lot of a west Evanston strip mall Tuesday afternoon.
Police are investigating a pair of shootings Saturday reported a few hours apart and a few blocks from one another.
Police said the 18-year-old Edgewater resident pulled out a handgun during an argument and fired it into the sky.
The 42-year-old admitted hitting 51-year-old mother of three and leaving the scene in exchange for probation and time served.
The fingerprints of an accused "armed habitual criminal" were found on a gun near where a Jeep crashed into a fence Wednesday, police said.
A gun was found near an SUV that crashed into a fence after fleeing an officer who had just heard gunfire, police said.
The former freshman pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he raped an incapacitated student on campus in March.
The Evanston resident choked and beat the pregnant 18-year-old after an argument over text messages, prosecutors said.
Fake cops are calling residents from what appears to be the Evanston Police Department number and asking for money for fictitious warrants.