DuPage County Crime
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Police searching for driver in fatal hit-and-run on I-88 near NapervilleJun 14, 2024 7:32 pm - The driver of a taxi is dead following a hit-and-run late Thursday on Interstate 88 near Naperville.
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Man pleads guilty to setting fire at ex-roommates’ homeJun 14, 2024 2:10 pm - An Aurora man who set a fire at his former roommates’ home because he was upset with them has pleaded guilty to residential arson.
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Wrongful death lawsuit filed nearly a year after DuPage County mass shootingJun 14, 2024 1:34 pm - The fiancee of a man who was shot to death last year in an unincorporated area near Willowbrook is suing two stores in the strip mall where the mass shooting happened.
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Authorities: Naperville woman used her children to steal items from JCPenney storeJun 14, 2024 11:40 am - A Naperville woman has been accused of using her children to help her steal 212 items from the JCPenney store at Yorktown Shopping Center in Lombard.
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Why Glen Ellyn police chief says Jimmy Buffett saved his lifeJun 14, 2024 5:15 am - The late Jimmy Buffett is best remembered for tropical rock hits like “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” but Glen Ellyn Police Chief Philip Norton fondly recalls the singer for more personal reasons. “Jimmy Buffett saved my life,” Norton told his village board last month.
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Suburban serial killer Mark Smith set to appear before parole boardJun 13, 2024 7:07 pm - A confessed serial killer who murdered two young women and a teenager in the suburbs in 1970 is scheduled to appear before a state parole board early next month.
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Man charged with having automatic gun in NapervilleJun 12, 2024 7:07 pm - A Glendale Heights man who has a felony record is facing charges he had a gun modified to fire automatically.
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School worker gets 8 years for sexually assaulting studentJun 12, 2024 4:03 pm - A former hall monitor at Tefft Middle School in Streamwood has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting a student.
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101-year sentence affirmed for kidnapping, rape of student in BloomingdaleJun 11, 2024 10:55 am - A state appellate court has upheld the 101-year prison sentence given to a man convicted of kidnapping a 21-year-old college student outside a Bloomingdale shopping center, then robbing and raping her.
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Naperville woman fit to stand trial on charges she stabbed 2 childrenJun 10, 2024 8:27 pm - A woman accused of stabbing two children has been found fit to stand trial.