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Snowshoe team trains in all conditions to get ready for Special Olympics Winter Games
Jan 21, 2020 6:00 AM - At the Special Olympics regional snowshoeing tournament earlier this month at Hoffman Estates High School, the Lake County-based Crusaders team took first in 13 events and will send nine athletes to the Winter Games next month at Chestnut Mountain in Galena.
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Term limits, school upgrades among Northwest suburban ballot questions
Jan 20, 2020 5:30 AM - A binding Elk Grove Village retroactive term limits question -- if it survives remaining legal challenges -- is among the queries voters in the Northwest suburbs will consider when they go to the polls March 17. -
Elgin man faces minimum 42-year prison term after skipping rape trial
Jan 17, 2020 10:51 PM - An Elgin man who was a no-show for his trial this week faces a minimum 42-year prison term after a jury convicted him of sexually assaulting a girl he knew. A Kane County jury Thursday convicted Mario Piñeda, 36, of seven counts of predatory criminal sexual assailt of a child under 13, and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. -
Authorities: Man in jail for fourth DUI also facing weapons charge
Jan 17, 2020 7:22 PM - An Elgin man held on charges of his fourth DUI has also been charged with possessing a gun with a defaced serial number. -
Three completely different congregations coexist in Streamwood's Grace Lutheran Church
Jan 16, 2020 6:00 AM - Streamwood's Grace Lutheran Church is a busy place on Sundays. The Missouri Synod congregation opened its doors to two other congregations -- Mercy Community Church and Iglesia Del Pacto Evangelico Jerusalen -- that needed a place to meet. -
Elgin man charged with 3rd DUI, injuring woman in crash
Jan 15, 2020 7:48 PM - A 53-year-old man was arrested and charged with his third DUI after rear-ending another vehicle Tuesday night near Elgin and injuring its driver. Lou Southivongnorrath, of Elgin, also was wanted on a failure to appear warrant for a 2017 DUI arrest and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. -
Elgin man charged in West Dundee woman's overdose death
Jan 15, 2020 5:44 PM - An Elgin man has been charged in the overdose death of a 30-year-old woman from West Dundee in 2018. Gehovani R. Gomez faces up to 30 years in prison for drug-induced homicide in the Sept. 6, 2018 death of Crystal Villegas from heroin and fentanyl. -
Prospect Heights officer receives city's Life Saving Award
Jan 15, 2020 11:23 PM - Prospect Heights Police Officer Mitch Webber was presented with the city's Life Saving Award at Monday's city council meeting for providing the expertise that rescued a man in cardiac arrest last month. -
Elgin man guilty of 2006 murder faces felony pot charges
Jan 10, 2020 10:50 AM - An Elgin man who was sentenced to prison for fatally shooting a gang member and sex offender during a fight in September 2006 stuffing his body in a car and abandoning it in Streamwood, is in trouble again. -
Elgin teen faces attempted murder charge in December shootingJan 9, 2020 7:46 PM - A 17-year-old from Elgin is being charged as an adult with attempted murder in the shooting of a teen girl in Elgin in early December 2019.
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