Cook County Crime
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Condition of 6-year-old girl poisoned by father is improvingSep 15, 2022 1:00 am - A GoFundMe page set up to support an Inverness family is reporting that the condition of 6-year-old Jeslyn Chang, who was poisoned by her father, is improving. The page'...
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Leaving car idling in fire lane leads to drug, weapons charges for Palatine manSep 15, 2022 1:00 am - A Palatine man was ordered held on $30,000 cash bail Thursday on drugs and weapons charges stemming from a July 29 report of a BMW idling in a fire lane. Police recover...
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Candlelight vigil planned for victims of Inverness poisoningSep 14, 2022 1:00 am - An Inverness church will hold a candlelight prayer vigil Thursday night for the family of two children authorities say were poisoned with carbon monoxide over the weeken...
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Police: Streamwood man faces weapons charge after fleeing traffic stopSep 14, 2022 1:00 am - Bartlett police Monday arrested a Streamwood man who later was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after authorities say he fled a traffic stop. In addition...
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Bartlett police arrest boy in connection to several burglaries to vehiclesSep 14, 2022 1:00 am - Bartlett police Saturday arrested a male juvenile in connection with several thefts from vehicles in the village. The boy is charged with criminal damage to state suppor...
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Driver charged nearly a year after crash that killed Elgin man, Marengo womanSep 14, 2022 1:00 am - A Georgia woman accused of driving while under the influence of cocaine and causing a crash that killed two people, including an Elgin man who was her passenger, last ye...
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Former Lake County deputy charged with falsifying timesheets to get $4,000 in unearned paySep 14, 2022 1:00 am - A former Lake County sheriff's deputy is charged with falsifying more than a dozen timesheets to earn more than $4,000 for overtime hours he did not work, authorities sa...
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Man pleads guilty to animal cruelty for stabbing family dog to deathSep 14, 2022 1:00 am - A Carpentersville man who said God told him to kill his family's dog pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated cruelty to an animal. Christopher Castillo, 24, was sentenced...
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'Such a big shock': Friends rally to support Inverness mom, daughter in poisoning caseSep 13, 2022 1:00 am - Friends of an Inverness family are in shock and disbelief after authorities said the father poisoned himself and his children with carbon monoxide over the weekend, kill...
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Chicago man to serve 65 years in prison for fatal Waukegan shootingSep 12, 2022 1:00 am - A Lake County judge sentenced a Chicago man to serve 65 years in prison for a 2020 shooting in Waukegan that authorities attributed to road rage. Sheldon Brown, 34, plea...