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Police investigating overnight shooting in Elgin

By Steve Zalusky
Dec 21, 2025 10:46 am - Elgin police are investigating the circumstances surrounding an early Sunday morning shooting.
West Dundee man sentenced to four years in prison after admitting to soliciting teen

By Amanda Marrazzo
Dec 21, 2025 9:53 am - A West Dundee man accused of using Facebook Messenger to solicit a 14-year-old Fox River Grove child to perform a sexual act has been sentenced to prison for four years, court records show.
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers say Bondi’s death penalty decision was tainted by conflict of interest

By MICHAEL R. SISAK
Dec 20, 2025 8:23 pm - Luigi Mangione’s lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer’s parent company.
Epstein files include child porn complaint a decade before federal investigation

By Maegan Vazquez
Dec 20, 2025 4:56 pm - Justice Department files related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, released Friday, included a 1996 complaint to the FBI about the disgraced financier allegedly possessing and distributing “child pornography” about a decade before a federal investigation was launched into his predatory behavior with minors and young women.
Marengo man known for history programs is charged with possessing lewd images of children

By Michelle Meyer
Dec 20, 2025 2:05 pm - A Marengo man who has given historical presentations around the state, including at public libraries throughout the Chicago area, is being held in McHenry County jail on charges of possessing images depicting child sexual abuse.
Man accused of YouTube threats to Barrington Hills police, Allstate employees found fit for trial

By Amanda Marrazzo
Dec 20, 2025 1:54 pm - A man who is accused of threatening on YouTube videos to shoot Barrington Hills police officers — and who had been deemed unfit to stand trial — has been restored to fitness, a judge ruled Thursday.
Elgin man gets 22 years for gunrunning

By Susan Sarkauskas
Dec 19, 2025 5:45 pm - An Elgin man pleaded guilty Friday to gunrunning and was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Justice Department begins releasing long-awaited files tied to Epstein sex trafficking investigation

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Dec 19, 2025 3:11 pm - The Justice Department on Friday began releasing its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world’s most influential people, including Donald Trump, who as president had tried to keep the files sealed.
Schaumburg man indicted on murder charges in the death of his father

By Barbara Vitello
Dec 19, 2025 11:25 am - Cook County prosecutors on Friday announced the indictment against a 28-year-old Schaumburg man charged with fatally striking his father with a sledgehammer.
Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing is found dead, officials say

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
Dec 19, 2025 8:06 am - A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.

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