Downers Grove Crime
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South Elgin DUI guilty plea stands despite officer’s policy violationOct 29, 2013 9:09 pm - A South Elgin cop who arrested a 22-year-old man in September 2012 on DUI charges violated departmental policy when he recommended to the man’s mom that her son use a ce...
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Stabbing survivor settles suit against Naperville clubOct 29, 2013 6:52 pm - A Lemont man has settled a lawsuit against a downtown Naperville nightspot where he was stabbed and his friend was slain early last year. William “Willie” Hayes had acc...
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Prosecutors of Darien triple murder honoredOct 29, 2013 4:39 pm - A team of DuPage County prosecutors who secured convictions against two men charged with a triple murder are being honored by the Chicago Crime Commission. Assistant st...
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Trial starts for Aurora man accused of killing wife in 1990Oct 28, 2013 1:30 pm - Twenty-three years ago Aurelio Montano picked up his young daughter from a relative’s house in Aurora where she’d spent the night, and he gave her some bad news: Her mot...
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Kane circuit clerk: Streamlined system efficientOct 26, 2013 8:00 am - The Kane County circuit clerk’s office launched a new service Thursday allowing lawyers to view case files via remote computer instead of driving to the clerk’s office i...
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Geneva man guilty in West Chicago revenge stabbingOct 25, 2013 10:00 am - A Geneva man who admitted stabbing a gang rival in West Chicago was sentenced Friday to five years in prison but could go to boot camp instead. Logan Baker, 19, pleaded...
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Naperville man gets 10 years for deadly I-290 crashOct 24, 2013 3:54 pm - Family members of a man killed in a drunken driving crash in Addison said they felt some measure of closure Thursday after the driver who caused the accident was sentenc...
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Bail set for Elmhurst woman charged in low-speed chaseOct 24, 2013 12:00 pm - Bail was set at $50,000 Thursday for an Elmhurst woman accused of leading a low-speed police chase through Bensenville, Elk Grove Village and surrounding communities. N...
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Wrestlers guilty of damaging Naperville mayor’s ‘Mystical Dragon’ sculptureOct 23, 2013 6:33 pm - A pair of college wrestlers who picked up a 5-foot-tall Fiberglas dragon sculpture from Naperville Mayor George Pradel’s yard and chucked it off a bridge have now picked...
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DUI victim’s mom forgives driver for fatal Addison crashOct 23, 2013 5:21 pm - The mother of a man who was killed by a drunken driver last year on I-290 in Addison said at an emotional court hearing Wednesday that she was sentencing the defendant t...