A 32-year-old Streamwood man is facing several charges after an apparent drunken driving incident that left more than 75 gallons of diesel fuel spilled on the road and a crushed mailbox in its wake, police said. Police said James W. Allred, of 101 P...

A homeless man is charged with two counts of first degree murder in the death of Alexis F. Roman in Hanover Park, police said Saturday. Antonio Pacheco, 33, is charged in the murder of Alexis F. Roman, whose body was found behind a Hanover Park stri...

A man was hospitalized for evaluation after a seven-hour standoff with police Friday in Naperville. Naperville police were called to 118 E. Bailey Road at 10:37 a.m. after a 50-year-old woman called to report her boyfriend was alone in her apartment...

At least four people who were hit by a vehicle while waiting to watch Schaumburg fireworks Sunday night were still hospitalized Tuesday, officials said. No charges have been filed from the crash, which is under police investigation, Schaumburg polic...

A convicted killer escaped Monday evening from the Elgin Mental Health Center by using a visitors pass, police said. Tolbert Walls, 31, whose last known address was on the 9000 block of Colfax Avenue in Chicago, remained on the loose Tuesday evening...

Firefighters are mourning the death of one of their own after a Lake Bluff man died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash Tuesday. Peter S. McWilliams, 50, was riding on Route 176 near Ashford Drive in Green Oaks early Monday when he drove o...

An Elgin bicyclist died from his injuries after being run over by a car on State Street in Elgin Tuesday, police said. Police said Douglas A. Stewart, 21, was riding his bicycle in the southbound turn lane of State Street just north of Lawrence Aven...

The body of a Waukegan man was found in Lake Michigan this morning after he disappeared while swimming late Friday. David R. Maxwell, 21, of the 400 block of North Avenue, drowned Friday while swimming in Lake Michigan in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., Ken...

An Elgin man was arrested Saturday in connection with the attempted abduction of an Elgin Community College student last month. Thomas Siebert, of 91 Brookside Drive, was positively identified as the man who approached a 21-year-old Elgin Community ...

The body of a Waukegan man was found in Lake Michigan this morning after he disappeared while swimming late Friday. David R. Maxwell, 21, of the 400 block of North Avenue, drowned Friday while swimming in Lake Michigan in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., Ken...