Hoffman Estates Crime
-
Tragedy and turmoil marked suburban crime news in 2020Jan 04, 2021 5:00 am - The heartbreaking story of the short, tragic life of AJ Freund, the Crystal Lake 5-year-old beaten to death in 2019 then buried in a shallow grave in Woodstock, conclude...
-
Cook County sees record numbers of opioid, gun deaths in 2020Jan 02, 2021 12:00 am - The Cook County medical examiner's office handled record numbers of opioid deaths and gun-related homicides in 2020, as well as a record number of total cases because of...
-
Hoffman Estates stabbing suspect hit by car in SchaumburgDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - The suspect in an early morning stabbing Wednesday in Hoffman Estates was struck by a car on Golf Road in Schaumburg shortly after the assault, authorities say, leading ...
-
Streamwood dean's assistant, football coach dismissedDec 18, 2020 12:00 am - Streamwood High School dean's assistant and head football coach Noel Rivera has been fired for having an inappropriate relationship with a student, Elgin Area School Dis...
-
Arlington Heights parolee charged with Hoffman Estates burglaryDec 17, 2020 12:00 am - An Arlington Heights man on parole for two 2018 residential burglary convictions was ordered held on $50,000 bail Thursday on charges that he and another man took cash a...
-
Buffalo Grove chief had big plans for international police group in 2020. Fate had other ideas.Dec 11, 2020 4:30 am - When Buffalo Grove Police Chief Steve Casstevens was sworn in last fall as president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, it was the culmination of more...
-
Mother charged in 2003 murder of newborn twins, bodies dumped in trash bin near StickneyDec 05, 2020 12:00 am - Inspired by news in 2018 of the arrest of the Golden State killer 32 years after his crime spree based on a DNA search for familial connections, Cook County sheriff's De...
-
Des Plaines man charged with exposing self to Fremd studentDec 02, 2020 12:00 am - A 33-year-old Des Plaines man was arrested by Palatine police Tuesday after being identified as the suspect in an indecent exposure case at Fremd High School earlier in ...
-
Cook County homicides top 900 mark in 2020: What's happened in Northwest suburbsDec 01, 2020 12:00 am - Cook County has recorded 902 homicides this year, marking the first time since 2016 and just the second time in nearly a quarter-century that the 900 mark has been reach...
-
Chief judge orders Cook County cases to be held by videoconferenceNov 23, 2020 12:00 am - Criminal and civil cases pending in Cook County will be held by videoconference except in "extraordinary or compelling circumstances" in response to the statewide surge ...