No evacuations were required, and all employees were safe after a fire Wednesday night at a Lemont Citgo refinery.
Kenneth Conley staged a dramatic escape from the federal lockup downtown and then led cops on a massive hunt through the south suburbs.
Man calls police on cell phone he claims was stolen • Fast food visit leads to confrontation with police • Trouble with a pink stun gun ... This week's roundup of weird crime news in the Southland.
Each Monday, the DuPage Sheriff's Office highlights one criminal being sought for outstanding warrants. This week, it's Christopher B. Bailey.
Two women who say they are the first treated for symptoms associated with the ghastly drug "crocodile" revealed their stories and their wounds.
Lemont police reports, Oct. 4-6
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Here's a round-up of recent, bizarre police report items from the area.
Lemont police reports, Sept. 23-Oct. 4
Three people are known to have taken the flesh-rotting drug here, but those cases may just be the tip of the iceberg, Dr. Abhin Singla said.
Judge orders grandmother charged in murder of 6-month-old granddaughter held without bail.
Traffic is being rerouted off the interstate at Route 126, Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Martez Malone said.
Lemont police reports, Sept. 26-29
Newspaper editorial published Friday asserts that Will County Judge Gerald Kinney's ruling "is a very bad call."
Lemont police reports, Sept. 19-25
Olga Alexsoff filed a lawsuit against the city of Naperville in April 2011, claiming police violated her rights while arresting her son in her Lemont home.
The sole owner of TY, Inc., was emotional during a hearing in federal court Wednesday morning, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Joseph G. Hayes, 43, is accused of driving under the influence when he struck two other vehicles in Marinette County, WI, on Friday and killed a 21-year-old man.
Illinois News Broadcasters Association, Radio Television and Digital News Association and National Press Club released statements in support of Patch editor Joe Hosey as he faces jail time and fines for protecting a source.
The FBI has stepped down as lead investigator on the case, turning it back to local law enforcement. Seven people died from cyanide-laced Tylenol in the Chicago area.
Lemont police reports, Sept. 13-22
A heroin death happens every eight days in DuPage County. Panelists break down this complex epidemic at Elmhurst College forum.
Two from Kentucky: A husband and wife perish in single-engine plane crash near Clow International Airport.
Trying to make sense of the legal issues behind the reporter's privilege case
Cook County Sheriff’s Police Detective Eric Burnson describes details from the grisly murders of a mother and daughter at the hands of the daughter’s husband, ending with the two bodies set on fire in the trunk of a car left in unincorporated Palos P
Robert Danno and Jose Fernardo Martinez-Hernandez are facing murder charges after the bodies of Mary Ann Urban-Danno, 51, and Theresa Urban, 79, were discovered in a burning car in unincorporated Palos Park.
Each Monday, the DuPage Sheriff's Office highlights one criminal being sought for outstanding warrants. This week, it's Christine Dukes.
The bodies of Mary Ann Urban-Danno, 51, and Theresa Urban, 79, were discovered in a burning car in unincorporated Palos Park. Two men have been charged with their deaths.
The identities of two women found strangled to death and burned in a car at a forest preserve near Palos Park have not been released but police say two people charged in their deaths are connec
Inhalants not covered under aggravated DUI statutes, says lawyer raising constitutional questions in case involving a 5-year-old's death.
Nearly $9,000 worth of equipment was reported stolen Sept. 3 from the complex, located at the intersection of 131st Street and Bell Road.
Cook County Sheriff investigators keeping tight lipped on details of double murder. Deceased women are from Chicago.
Death investigation into two bodies found in a burning car in a Palos Park forest preserve has been upgraded to homicide. Age, race and gender of individuals is still unknown.
A murder trial that ran through the entire week and has yet to wrap up featured puzzling allegations and unanswered questions.