Crime
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Spate of e-bike thefts prompts Batavia police to warn riders to take precautions
Aug 12, 2025 1:39 pm - Batavia police warned residents of an uptick in downtown e-bike thefts in recent weeks and advised owners to take added security measures.
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Elgin cold case detectives nominated for 2025 ‘America’s Greatest Detective’ award by crime and trial networkAug 12, 2025 12:50 pm - The Elgin Police Department detectives who located the body of a woman missing for 42 years have been nominated for the 2025 “America’s Greatest Detective” award by Law&Crime, a true crime and live trial network.
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Shooter attacked CDC headquarters to protest COVID-19 vaccines
Aug 12, 2025 11:49 am - The man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broke into a locked safe to get his father's weapons and wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines, authorities said Tuesday.
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South Barrington police to target impaired drivingAug 12, 2025 11:30 am - South Barrington police this week will launch a focused effort to stop drunken drivers and ticket drivers not wearing seatbelts.
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Traffic safety checkpoint set for Aug. 22 in Elk Grove VillageAug 12, 2025 10:31 am - Cook County sheriff’s deputies will team with police in Elk Grove Village and Mount Prospect to conduct a traffic safety checkpoint Friday, Aug. 22.
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Trump’s rhetoric on DC echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime
Aug 12, 2025 10:29 am - President Donald Trump has taken control of the District of Columbia's law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation's capital, arguing the extraordinary moves are in response to an urgent public safety crisis.
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Trump's Washington, DC, takeover begins as National Guard troops arrive
Aug 12, 2025 10:13 am - Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by President Donald Trump began arriving in the nation's capital on Tuesday, ramping up after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the city's police department and reduce crime in what the president called — without substantiation — a lawless city.
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Ex-Glendale Heights village president arraigned on forgery, perjury chargesAug 11, 2025 4:36 pm - Former Glendale Heights President Chodri Khokhar pleaded not guilty Monday to felony charges of forgery and perjury.
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St. Charles-area man pleads guilty to child porn chargeAug 11, 2025 4:12 pm - A St. Charles Township man has been sentenced to nine years in prison, after pleading guilty to possession of a child pornography video.
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Former Wheaton woman pleads guilty to abducting her daughter in 2017Aug 11, 2025 11:12 am - A woman accused of kidnapping her daughter and found almost six years later because of a crime TV show, pleaded guilty Monday morning to child abduction.