Elgin Crime
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Kane County woman pleads guilty to animal cruelty over dogs' starvation, deathsJan 20, 2022 12:00 am - A woman accused of maltreating 14 dogs, three of which died, pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor animal cruelty. Emily Chesterfield, who lived near South Elgin and no...
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Public might not get to see report on bribery allegationsJan 20, 2022 12:00 am - The Cook County Board of Review hired a high-profile Chicago law firm last year through a contract worth up to $110,000 to look into alleged bribery in the county office...
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Before trial, family recalls Elgin woman whose son is charged with killing, dismembering herJan 15, 2022 12:00 am - More than four years after an Elgin woman lost her life over what authorities describe as a dispute involving loud music, the trial of her son - the man charged with kil...
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Despite rise in gunfire, Elgin crime rate at 50-year lowJan 13, 2022 4:00 am - Elgin's crime rate reached a 50-year low in 2021, police chief Ana Lalley told Elgin City Council members Wednesday. Lalley provided the committee of the whole with an o...
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Republicans call for hearings on DCFSJan 13, 2022 12:00 am - Three Republican state House members called for hearings into the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services on Thursday out of concerns for workers' safety, im...
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Police: Hoffman Estates woman with BB gun charged with misdemeanorsJan 13, 2022 12:00 am - An 18-year-old Hoffman Estates woman was charged with misdemeanors after police determined she had a BB gun at a village intersection Wednesday morning, causing a school...
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Hoffman Estates woman in custody after report of person with gun puts schools on lockdownJan 12, 2022 12:00 am - An 18-year-old Hoffman Estates woman is in police custody after a motorist reported seeing a person with a gun at the intersection of Governors Lane and Haddam Place in ...
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Elgin man pleads guilty to drug-induced homicide of West Dundee womanJan 12, 2022 12:00 am - An Elgin man pleaded guilty Wednesday to drug-induced homicide for supplying the narcotics that killed a woman in 2018. Gehovani R. Gomez, 25, of the 800 block of Rode R...
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Authorities investigating death of Kane County jail inmateJan 11, 2022 12:00 am - The Kane County Major Crimes Task Force is investigating the death of an inmate at the Kane County jail. Sheriff Ron Hain reported that corrections officers noticed that...
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Woman who killed young daughter in Bloomingdale asks U.S. Supreme Court for releaseJan 07, 2022 4:20 am - A woman found not guilty by reason of insanity of murdering her 4-year-old daughter has taken her fight for freedom from a state psychiatric hospital to the U.S. Supreme...