Crime
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Oak Brook home burglarized as teenage girl hidJan 16, 2023 12:00 am - Neighbors of an Oak Brook home targeted for a home invasion Friday said it's one of several houses in the neighborhood hit by burglars in the last few months. But on Fri...
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16-year-old shot and killed in Des PlainesJan 15, 2023 12:00 am - A 16-year-old was shot and killed Sunday night, Des Plaines police said. Police said they were called to the 1300 block of Perry Street for a report of shots fired and ...
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Five juveniles arrested after carjacking, burglaries outside Des Plaines hotelsJan 15, 2023 12:00 am - Five juveniles have been arrested in connection with a carjacking and a string of burglaries of vehicles early Sunday morning at hotels in Des Plaines. Des Plaines polic...
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Spring Grove man charged with meth possession, other drug offensesJan 14, 2023 12:00 am - A Spring Grove man faces multiple drug charges, including possession of methamphetamine, authorities said Saturday. Steven Mors, 32, of the 28000 block of Stewart Avenue...
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Suburban cold cases solved and unsolved: How DNA has played a role so farJan 13, 2023 4:00 am - Despite thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews and untold hours of investigation, it took nearly a decade - and a couple of strokes of luck - for police to arrest th...
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Suspect charged with murder in assassination of Japan's Abe
Jan 13, 2023 12:00 am - TOKYO - Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, sending him to stand trial, a court said ...
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2nd trial, same sentence: 30 years for Geneva man in murder of wifeJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - Shadwick King was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison for murdering his wife in 2014. It was just like the first time the Geneva man was convicted of the death of Kat...
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Sheriffs draw lines at what they will - and will not - enforce with new weapons lawJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg had a message for gun owners concerned about Illinois' new ban on the purchase, sale and manufacture of some high-powered weapons and l...
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Lake County sheriff responds to racist comments in wake of his stance on weapons banJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - A Facebook post by Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg Thursday night expressing his support for the state's ban on high-powered weapons prompted more than 2,000 comments,...
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Top crime stories of 2022: Mayhem and heartbreak defined the year in suburban crimeJan 12, 2023 5:00 am - A mass shooting on July 4 in Highland Park, during which a lone shooter stood atop a building firing nearly 90 rounds at parade spectators and participants, shocked the ...