Buffalo Grove police have been unable to pinpoint the source of a green laser beam that was apparently being directed at planes approaching Wheeling's Chicago Executive Airport last Friday. Airport control tower authorities notified Buffalo Grove, ...

A Metra train heading inbound from Kenosha was stopped and searched outside the Chicago Ogilvie Transportation Center Wednesday morning after police received a bomb threat, Metra officials confirmed. The Union Pacific North Line train was stopped ju...

A former maintenance supervisor at a Willowbrook nursing home was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting a female underling 12 years ago. Marco Campos faced up to eight years in prison as part of a plea agreement that ende...

The Aurora Police Department with help from local, state and federal law enforcement officers arrested 26 suspects on outstanding warrants and sent 11 parole violators back to prison during a joint weekend operation. Operation Clean Sweep brought ...

A Cook County prosecutor says a man accused of speeding his car down the wrong side of the street and then punching two police officers was under the influence of crack cocaine. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Assistant State's Attorney Yolanda L...

Arlington Heights bull; Vandals sprayed graffiti with silver paint on a garage wall at a condominium complex on the 1200 block of South Old Wilke Road around noon Sept. 23. Vandals also sprayed graffiti at the same location on an earlier date...

Oakton Community College in Des Plaines has canceled its fall preseason baseball training after 25 members of its baseball team were caught in an underage drinking bust. A late-night text message alerting Des Plaines police to a loud house party on ...

Elgin bull; Tony M. Curry, of the 300 block of West Lockman, Chicago, faces a pair of felony charges, after police said he sold heroin to an undercover police officer in Elgin near a park on Wednesday. Curry was charged with possession of a c...