Cook County Crime
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Man gets 10 years for burglarizing video gambling businessesDec 22, 2025 3:41 pm - A Berwyn man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for participating in a burglary ring that targeted video gambling businesses in the suburbs and downstate.
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Check scam reported in Des PlainesDec 22, 2025 9:07 am - Someone fraudulently tried to cash a check connected to a Des Plaines woman’s bank account last week, police said Friday.
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Police investigating overnight shooting in ElginDec 21, 2025 10:46 am - Elgin police are investigating the circumstances surrounding an early Sunday morning shooting.
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West Dundee man sentenced to four years in prison after admitting to soliciting teenDec 21, 2025 9:53 am - A West Dundee man accused of using Facebook Messenger to solicit a 14-year-old Fox River Grove child to perform a sexual act has been sentenced to prison for four years, court records show.
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Man accused of YouTube threats to Barrington Hills police, Allstate employees found fit for trialDec 20, 2025 1:54 pm - A man who is accused of threatening on YouTube videos to shoot Barrington Hills police officers — and who had been deemed unfit to stand trial — has been restored to fitness, a judge ruled Thursday.
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Elgin man gets 22 years for gunrunningDec 19, 2025 5:45 pm - An Elgin man pleaded guilty Friday to gunrunning and was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
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Schaumburg man indicted on murder charges in the death of his fatherDec 19, 2025 11:25 am - Cook County prosecutors on Friday announced the indictment against a 28-year-old Schaumburg man charged with fatally striking his father with a sledgehammer.
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‘Real and present threat’: Judge orders man charged in Schaumburg slaying detainedDec 18, 2025 1:35 pm - A Cook County judge detained the Niles man charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his former girlfriend on Dec. 16 in a Schaumburg parking lot.
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Police: Former boyfriend charged in deadly Schaumburg stabbingDec 17, 2025 10:09 pm - A Niles man is set to appear in court Thursday on allegations he stabbed a former girlfriend to death Tuesday in Schaumburg.
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Man charged in connection to recent Streamwood bomb threatDec 17, 2025 5:39 pm - A Hoffman Estates man was arrested and charged Tuesday in connection with an unfounded bomb threat at a Streamwood Walmart on Dec. 1.