Cook County Crime
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Five juveniles arrested after carjacking, burglaries outside Des Plaines hotelsJan 15, 2023 12:00 am - Five juveniles have been arrested in connection with a carjacking and a string of burglaries of vehicles early Sunday morning at hotels in Des Plaines. Des Plaines polic...
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Suburban cold cases solved and unsolved: How DNA has played a role so farJan 13, 2023 4:00 am - Despite thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews and untold hours of investigation, it took nearly a decade - and a couple of strokes of luck - for police to arrest th...
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Sheriffs draw lines at what they will - and will not - enforce with new weapons lawJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg had a message for gun owners concerned about Illinois' new ban on the purchase, sale and manufacture of some high-powered weapons and l...
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Lake County sheriff responds to racist comments in wake of his stance on weapons banJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - A Facebook post by Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg Thursday night expressing his support for the state's ban on high-powered weapons prompted more than 2,000 comments,...
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Top crime stories of 2022: Mayhem and heartbreak defined the year in suburban crimeJan 12, 2023 5:00 am - A mass shooting on July 4 in Highland Park, during which a lone shooter stood atop a building firing nearly 90 rounds at parade spectators and participants, shocked the ...
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Shots fired down, other serious crime up 6% in ElginJan 12, 2023 12:00 am - Shots fired incidents in Elgin were down, while serious crime overall was up in 2022, according to the police department's newly released annual report. Coming off a 50-...
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Mount Prospect police hosting community meeting for Boxwood neighborhoodJan 12, 2023 12:00 am - In the wake of recent criminal events in Mount Prospect's Boxwood neighborhood, including a pair of shootings in the last month, Mount Prospect police are hosting a comm...
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Authorities: Man who escaped Elmhurst police car in September back in custodyJan 11, 2023 12:00 am - Elmhurst police on Tuesday arrested a man who they say escaped from a police car in September. Devin Revels, 27, of the 800 block of South Keeler Avenue, Chicago, is now...
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Former high school volleyball coach faces child pornography chargesJan 11, 2023 12:00 am - A previous version gave an incorrect time period for the alleged online relationship. A former coach for the Bartlett High School volleyball program has been charge...
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2 men charged with murder in Aurora shootingJan 11, 2023 12:00 am - Two men are facing charges in connection with a shooting last fall in Aurora that left one man dead and another critically injured. Samuel Garcia, 24, of the 600 block o...