Lake County Crime
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Deer Park adding surveillance cameras that target license plates to its streetsJun 21, 2024 1:18 pm - Roadside surveillance cameras that take photos of passing cars and their license plates are coming to Deer Park.
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School’s out, but there’s no summer vacation for resource officersJun 21, 2024 6:59 am - Summer break means family trips, dips in the pool and more time hanging out with friends for thousands of suburban students. But for the police officers who monitor their hallways and help resolve their conflicts during the fall, winter and spring, duty still calls when school’s out.
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Possible change of plea in July 4 Highland Park shooting, Lake County state’s attorney’s office saysJun 20, 2024 10:05 pm - A spokeswoman from the Lake County state’s attorney’s office confirmed “a possible change of plea” from the Highwood man charged with fatally shooting seven people and injuring dozens of others during a 2022 Independence Day parade in Highland Park.
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‘You can’t do this on your own’: Cook Co. sheriff’s program helps recovering addicts maintain sobrietyJun 19, 2024 5:52 pm - Four decades into his recovery, self-described former street hustler and ex-convict Benny Lee still attends weekly meetings that help him maintain sobriety. “I’ve sat where you sit,” he told more than 40 people at Ready 4 Recovery, a Cook County sheriff’s department program for individuals who’ve completed drug and/or alcohol treatment and need ongoing support.
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Exonerated former Gurnee man receives certificate of innocenceJun 18, 2024 5:00 pm - Three decades after he was wrongly convicted and sent to prison for the 1993 murder of his ex-wife, former Gurnee resident Herman Williams is officially an innocent man.
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Vernon Hills man found guilty in fatal 2021 Gurnee shootingJun 17, 2024 6:16 pm - A Vernon Hills man was convicted of second-degree murder involving a shooting in the Gurnee Mills parking lot in 2021
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Skeletal remains found near Zion-area state parkJun 17, 2024 11:24 am - Investigators are trying to determine the identity, cause and manner of death of skeletal remains found last week near Zion.
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Authorities: Beach Park man took woman hostage, killed her dogJun 17, 2024 10:46 am - Lake County sheriff’s deputies took a Beach Park man into custody Sunday on charges of holding the mother of his child hostage and killing her dog.
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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.