Cook County Crime
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Des Plaines woman found neighbor in her apartment: policeJun 25, 2025 6:30 pm - A Des Plaines man was arrested Monday after a female neighbor came home and found him standing in her apartment, authorites said.
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Schaumburg man charged with attempted murder in Elgin-area party shootingJun 24, 2025 5:20 pm - A man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting that injured three people at a party Sunday near Elgin.
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Des Plaines man loses $500 in dog-selling scamJun 24, 2025 10:31 am - A Des Plaines resident was scammed out of $500 while trying to buy a dog over the internet, police said this week.
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Woman charged with hitting IDOT truck while drunk, nearly running over bodies at scene of fatal crashJun 23, 2025 4:54 pm - A woman has been charged with drunkenly crashing into an IDOT truck on the scene of a fatal crash Sunday and nearly running over two bodies.
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Highland Park officer-involved shooting under investigationJun 20, 2025 12:12 pm - Early Friday, Highland Park police officers fatally shot a man after they say approached them with a raised knife which he refused to drop.
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South Elgin man faces child pornography chargesJun 20, 2025 10:16 am - A South Elgin man facing charges of possessing child sexual abuse materials is free on pretrial release.
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From the murders to manhunt: New book examines ‘human elements’ of Brown’s Chicken killingsJun 20, 2025 4:30 am - A suburban native who was just a kid when the Brown's Chicken murders in Palatine shocked the nation has written a new book he hopes offers new insight into the killings. “It’s focused more on the human elements of the case, and not the gore of the crime itself,” said author Patrick Wohl.
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Thieves take jewelry from pedestrian in Des PlainesJun 19, 2025 12:51 pm - Two people in a black van stolen jewelry from an 82-year-old Des Plaines man while he was walking in the suburb, police said Tuesday.
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Wauconda man killed in northwestern Illinois shootingJun 18, 2025 11:43 pm - Visitation and a funeral will be held Sunday for a Wauconda man who was fatally shot this past weekend in northwest Illinois.
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Inverness man gets 7-year prison sentence for COVID-19 testing fraudJun 18, 2025 7:23 pm - An Inverness man was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for his involvement in a COVID-19 testing fraud scheme.