Jake Griffin

Hoffman Estates police say they are investigating allegations of improper contact between two now-former Hoffman Estates High School male teachers and multiple female students. The investigation is on...

The long-overdue second installment of Cook County’s property tax bills will be mailed Nov. 14 and due Dec. 15. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle made the announcement Friday morning, abo...

Carpentersville police are investigating a shooting that occurred Wednesday night near an apartment complex on the 2100 block of Morningside Lane. Police are not releasing any details about the shooti...

A Chicago man was ordered held in jail to await trial in DuPage County after Oak Brook police said he punched his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend in the face and then led officers on a high-speed chas...

Wood Dale police are calling the stabbing deaths of a 74-year-old woman and her 48-year-old son Monday a murder-suicide. Police responded to the area of Addison Road and Charmille Lane at about 2 p.m....

All Stories from October 27, 2025

Two Prospect Heights police officers are on unpaid administrative leave and facing a disciplinary hearing next week to decide their futures with the department. “Two of our police officers are on un...

One person is dead and two others were injured Thursday morning when a Union Pacific freight train engine collided with a landscaping truck at the State Street crossing in Elgin. State Street in Elgin...

The son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren of Illinois GOP gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey died in a helicopter crash Wednesday evening in Montana. The announcement was made on Bailey’s ca...

A missing 79-year-old Des Plaines-area woman with dementia was located by authorities looking for her since Thursday morning. The woman was reported missing from her home by the Cook County sheriff�...