Palatine Crime
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Police: Man impersonating village worker tried to enter Palatine homeApr 26, 2022 1:00 am - Palatine police are warning the public about an incident Sunday in which a man tried to gain access to a home on the 600 block of South Williams Drive by falsely claimin...
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Dramatic Palatine police recruiting video makes an action-movie splash, then disappearsApr 22, 2022 5:15 am - This story has been updated to note that Palatine village council members will be reviewing the video before it is republished publicly online. If you didn't know a...
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Authorities: Former Palatine man abused girls more than 20 years agoApr 22, 2022 1:00 am - A former Palatine man who authorities say sexually abused two girls more than 20 years ago beginning when they were 6 and 7 years old, respectively, was ordered held wit...
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Retired St. Viator coach Majkowski pleads guilty to misdemeanor batteryApr 20, 2022 1:00 am - Editor's note: The headline was corrected from original versions. Retired St. Viator High School basketball coach and counselor Joe Majkowski pleaded guilty Wednesd...
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Police: Teen charged after fleeing scene of suspected street race in BartlettApr 05, 2022 1:00 am - Bartlett police officers called to investigate a report of several vehicles setting up a street race early Saturday arrested a 16-year-old boy on charges of fleeing or a...
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'Phone a friend': Cook County sheriff, Northbrook police partner on crisis intervention programApr 01, 2022 5:30 am - In a way, there is now a social worker in every Northbrook police squad car. A new partnership with the Cook County sheriff's Treatment Response Team is bolstering the p...
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Former Skokie flight attendant charged with possession of child pornographyApr 01, 2022 1:00 am - A flight attendant who prosecutors say had cloud storage accounts containing more than 50,000 files of child sexual abuse material was ordered held on $10,000 bail and c...
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Smollett will serve jail time in protective custodyMar 11, 2022 12:00 am - Actor Jussie Smollett will be held in protective custody at Cook County jail - alone in a cell monitored continuously by cameras and guards - while serving his sentence ...
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Why a Kane County judge was livid with top prosecutor and public defenderFeb 11, 2022 4:30 am - A Kane County judge took the county's top prosecutor and public defender to the woodshed last week, accusing them of violating a defendant's rights by getting his guilty...
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ABC 7: How Wordle text helped save Lincolnwood woman from hostage situationFeb 11, 2022 12:00 am - Lincolnwood police said the online word game Wordle played a role in saving an 80-year-old woman from a hostage situation, ABC 7 Chicago is reporting. According to polic...