Fox Lake • Jose L. Vasquez, 24, 171 N. Forest Ave., Fox Lake, was arrested around 3:10 a.m. Jan. 26 and charged with public intoxication after an officer found him stumbling in the road on Grand Avenue near Keystone Drive and saw him fall into the w...

A Des Plaines man died Thursday night after driving his car around railroad gates, according to police. Police said that 42-year-old Robert Wells III was driving his car at the Pearson Street and Ellinwood Avenue intersection around 6 p.m. in downt...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Police found the badly beaten body early Sunday of a 4-year-old boy at the north Minneapolis home of an adult cousin who had been caring for him and reported him missing last week. The woman, who is originally from Chicago, was arrest...

A man accused of killing his former girlfriend and her mother pleaded not guilty Monday to new charges alleging he tried to enlist another inmate's help to provide him with a false alibi. Steven Zirko, 45, of the 5600 block of North Richmond in Chi...

A 42-year-old Chicago man is charged with solicitation to commit murder after police say he asked a friend last summer to help him find someone to kill his estranged girlfriend. The friend, who works as a chiropractor, reported the request to a Nor...

A compilation of DuPage County circuit court proceedings of Oct. 12-18. Felonies linda f. ballard, 41, 301 ninth St., maywood. retail theft: guilty; 270 days periodic imprisonment, court costs/fines, $350. keith w. bauch, 19, 5637 S. parkside, chica...

Geneva • The rear right tire on a Volkswagen Jetta was punctured between 3 p.m. Friday and 5:55 p.m. Saturday while it was parked in a lot on North First Street. • A man driving a four-door truck left without paying for 14 gallons of gasoline, worth...

Addison Mayor Larry Hartwig presents his State of the Village address to the Addison Chamber of Commerce and Industry at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 21 at Alta Villa Banquets, 430 N. Addison Road. The cost is $25 for members and $30 for others. Reservations are...

As sports fans, we tend to view athletes as commodities. How good a player is he? How fast? How big? How strong? We observe them almost exclusively on game nights, and concern ourselves mostly with wins, losses and performance. What's lost amid the ...