Detectives pulled over the van for driving without lights after a convicted murderer brought an assault-style weapon into it, police said.
Clarence "C.J." Weaver, 32, had been missing since going into the water Sunday near Monroe Harbor. His body was found Thursday.
Police said someone claiming to be Detective Jason Kohl called a resident saying there was a warrant out for their arrest.
Caleb Reed was found shot in the head in Rogers Park on July 31. His friend now faces first-degree murder charges in his killing.
Prosecutors said they ambushed an Evanston man with friends in a rival street gang, shooting him five times before fleeing in a getaway car.
Police said an Evanston man and two brothers from Sauk Village are behind last month's fatal shooting of the 29-year-old Evanston resident.
Police suspect gunmen killed Andrew Williams Sunday in retaliation for the fatal shooting of Deashawn Turner less than 40 hours earlier.
A Glenview man was killed and an Evanston resident wounded after argument outside the station turned violent, police said.
James Monroe, 4, and Saniyah Curington, 13, were last seen at 821 Dobson St. in Evanston Tuesday night just after 10:30 p.m.
Cmdr. Jody Wright and Cmdr. Melissa Sacluti will take over Evanston PD's support services and field operations divisions next month.
Prosecutors say ex-Northwestern University professor Wyndham Lathem confessed to murder — and visited blogs discussing weaponizing viruses.
Firefighters were credited with a lifesaving rescue early Wednesday morning in south Evanston.
Videos of Evanston police officers chasing and tackling Trent Hunt as he recorded them with a cellphone were first posted on social media.
Police said two business were looted Sunday night, hours after more than a thousand people peacefully marched through Evanston.
Authorities are investigating a "Zoom-bombing" incident during an online Northwestern Women's Center event Friday, a spokesperson said.
Ex-Northwestern professor Wyndham Lathem — accused of fatally stabbing his boyfriend in a sex fantasy — now wants to help fight COVID-19.
His uncle has been charged with arson after setting fire to the car used in the shooting, prosecutors said. Both remained jailed Thursday.
A family of four was displaced by a blaze believed to have begun in their kitchen.
Someone opened fire from a white car on Ashbury Avenue Monday evening, police said.
The 28-year-old passenger suffered gunshot wounds to her arm and chest after someone in another car opened fire, police said.
Police said a man who threatened officers with a gun in a 7-Eleven parking lot had a 50-round magazine and about 7 ounces of marijuana.
A 19-year-old Evanston man remains hospitalized with gunshot wounds after someone fired seven shots into a parked car late Saturday night.
An armed robber clad in a face mask struck an Evanston gas station late Wednesday night, police said.
Two Evanston firefighters were released from the hospital after suffering minor injuries Sunday at a fire on Sherman Avenue.
A 44-year-old Chicago man is accused of brandishing a pistol out the window of his SUV in what police describe as a road rage incident.
An argument among family members involving building maintenance preceded Wednesday's shooting, police believe.
Police are investigating the first shooting of the year in Evanston less than 19 hours into 2020.
Police say he was last seen in Evanston on Dec. 30. If you see him, they want your call.
In each of three incidents, the man has walked into a business, taken out a handgun, and robbed the business – as well as the employees.
The department is participating in "Driver Sober or Get Pulled Over," a national enforcement campaign to crack down on impaired drivers.
A Nichols Middle School teacher was mugged on his way home from school Thursday afternoon, according to police and school officials.
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.