A 53-year-old man was killed and another person was injured Wednesday night during a house fire in West Chicago. Members of the West Chicago Fire Protection District responded at 9:30 p.m. to the 100 block of West Grand Lake Boulevard and arrived to...

A look back at some of the top crime and justice stories of 2018 in DuPage County ... January 80 years in Wesselman murder: After 30 years on the run in the wake of raping and murdering 15-year-old Kristy Wesselman, Michael Jones will take his las...

The fire did everything blazes do to turn catastrophic, and Christine Sentman arrived home just in time. The Jan. 4 inferno, spurred by the family's dried-out Christmas tree, destroyed the home where Christine lived with her parents, her younger br...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown said Friday he "gave in" when police used a stun gun as they detained him for a parking violation because he didn't want officers to "pull out their guns." "I was just being smart. I just wanted...

Glenbard East High School teachers are organizing an on-campus fundraiser next week to help pay for the medical bills of students who were seriously injured in a fire pit explosion. Teachers will hold the car wash in the south parking lot of the Lom...

A Des Plaines woman is being held in DuPage County jail on $250,000 bail after being accused of hiring a dark web company to kill the wife of her lover. Prosecutors say Tina Jones, 31, of the 700 block of River Road, paid $10,000 in bitcoin to the c...

A Chicago man is facing charges of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a gun and armed robbery after he is accused of playing a role in stealing a woman's car and purse from Oakbrook Center mall. Bail was set at $1 million for Darnell Anderson, 26,...

Efforts to boost the minimum age for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products to 21 have caught on in Lake and Cook counties far more than in the other collar counties. Six Lake County towns have increased the age threshold from 18. So has the L...

Chicago IL: The Multi-Ethnic Advisory Task Force [MEATF] of the United States Congressman Honorable Danny Davis [D-7th Dist.] held its glittering Congressional 7th Annual Award Gala with the theme "Congressional Salute to our Community Heroes" on S...