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Safety or surveillance? Debate over license plate cameras in the suburbs heats up

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Jul 30, 2026 5:37 pm - The heated national debate over the proliferation of automated license-plate reading cameras flared up in the suburbs this month, both in the halls of government and on the streets.
Colin Gray, who gave his son the gun used in Georgia school shooting, is sentenced to 15 years

By KATE BRUMBACK
Jul 30, 2026 4:55 pm - A man who gave his son the gun he used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison.
Hoffman Estates woman charged in fatal hit-and-run near Chicago Executive Airport

By Eric Peterson
Jul 30, 2026 3:22 pm - A Hoffman Estates woman has been charged in a May 3 hit-and-run crash that killed a Prospect Heights man as he stood near the viewing area of Chicago Executive Airport.
Mundelein police shooting of Mary Alice Love ruled a homicide: ‘A big deal for the family’

By JOSEPH STATES
Jul 30, 2026 2:19 pm - The fatal police shooting of Mary Alice Love, the 37-year-old Black Mundelein woman killed in May during a mental health crisis, has been ruled a homicide, a potential step toward criminal charges for the involved officer.
Investigation leads to murder charges in case of Mundelein-area man reported missing in November

By Mick Zawislak
Jul 30, 2026 1:51 pm - Two Mundelein-area men are charged with the murder of a man reported missing in early November, authorities said Thursday.
Des Plaines District 62 lost $3.2M in fraud scheme, officials say

By Russell Lissau
Jul 30, 2026 11:40 am - Des Plaines School District 62 lost $3.2 million in a fraud scheme, but officials are working to recover the cash.
Police: Bullets that killed 2 bystanders at Seattle festival weren’t from teen shooter’s gun

By GENE JOHNSON and HALLIE GOLDEN
Jul 29, 2026 7:05 pm - The bullets that killed two bystanders during a shootout at a crowded Seattle food festival last weekend do not appear to have come from the gun that a 15-year-old arrested at the scene was firing, police said in court documents filed Wednesday.
Investigation revealed ‘devastating’ reports of sexual misconduct at school supported by Epstein

By ED WHITE
Jul 29, 2026 5:35 pm - Two people who attended a prestigious Michigan fine arts school reported conduct of a sexual nature by Jeffrey Epstein, a major donor, according to an investigation that also uncovered dozens of allegations spanning decades against nearly 50 other people.
Two years after $1 million Woodfield jewelry heist, police say leads have dried up

By Eric Peterson
Jul 29, 2026 5:28 pm - Schaumburg police have closed their investigation into a daring overnight burglary that netted more than $1 million in merchandise from a Woodfield Mall jewelry store nearly two years ago.
‘She killed the kids!’ 911 call from Lindsay Clancy’s husband brings tears to the courtroom

By MICHAEL CASEY and LEAH WILLINGHAM
Jul 29, 2026 5:08 pm - PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy sobbed in court Wednesday as jurors listened to the anguished 911 call her then-husband made after returning from an errand to find she’d...

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