Arlington Hts. man says ride offer to young girls misunderstood In retrospect, Rodney T. Peterson says he shouldn't have stopped his car in a snowstorm March 2 and offered a ride to two teenage girls he didn't know. But the Arlington Heights ma...

Even 30 months later, the first two days on the job remain fresh in Hanover Park Police Chief David Webb's memory. Back-to-back murders within a 24-hour span are hard to forget, after all. “It was baptism by fire, for lack of a better term,” Webb sa...

A 43-year-old man was rescued from a Streamwood pond Monday after falling through ice. The man was reported in the water near Glenbrook Elementary School at 3:42 p.m., said Streamwood Fire Department Batallion Chief Robert Wysong. Witnesses told fir...

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Breaking news A tentative agreement has been reached between nearly 300 teachers and support staffers and the administration of Zion-Benton Township High School in Zion. Teachers are expected to meet this afternoon and vote to ratify the contra...

What started as a winter break snowboarding trip between two best friends from Bartlett High School ended in tragedy Monday morning when their vehicle was struck head-on near Galena. Michael Coleman and Justin Blazek, who both graduated in 2010, wer...

Breaking News: Accident closes Bartlett road Army Trail Road in Bartlett has been shut down by police due to a major accident with injuries at Route 59, officials report. Dawn Domrose of the DuPage County Sheriff's Department said all lanes of...

Detectives disputes decision that overturned Waukegan murder conviction A detective who took Juan Rivera's second confession to the 1992 rape and murder of an 11-year-old Waukegan girl says a courts decision to clear Rivera of the crime is “out...