Articles filed under Crime
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Police, coroner’s office seek answers after dead body found by Metra tracks in LibertyvilleJan 03, 2026 12:32 pm - Authorities are investigating what happened to a man whose body was found by the Metra tracks in Libertyville during the late afternoon rush Friday. The disturbance delayed a number of trains.
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Cook County reports major declines in homicides, opioid overdoses in 2025Jan 02, 2026 10:52 am - The Cook County medical examiner’s office is reporting a significant decline in the number of homicides and opioid overdose deaths in 2025.
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Prosecutors seek natural-life sentence in Elmhurst murder caseDec 29, 2025 7:50 pm - DuPage County prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for an Elmhurst man accused of murdering a woman in his garage, due to the brutality of the attack.
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Man faces gun, drug charges after arrest in BloomingdaleDec 29, 2025 2:28 pm - A man facing drug and gun charges told police that the 558 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms in his car Saturday were for “his spiritual journey,” DuPage County prosecutors say.
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Elgin woman gets 20 years for murderDec 26, 2025 6:12 pm - An Elgin woman has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend.
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Authorities: Batavia man stabbed wife more than 40 timesDec 24, 2025 4:15 pm - A Batavia man stabbed his wife more than 40 times and hit her with a hammer when he killed her, a Kane County prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Luigi Mangione’s lawyers say Bondi’s death penalty decision was tainted by conflict of interestDec 20, 2025 8:23 pm - Luigi Mangione’s lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer’s parent company.
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Epstein files include child porn complaint a decade before federal investigationDec 20, 2025 4:56 pm - Justice Department files related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, released Friday, included a 1996 complaint to the FBI about the disgraced financier allegedly possessing and distributing “child pornography” about a decade before a federal investigation was launched into his predatory behavior with minors and young women.
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Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing found dead, officials sayDec 18, 2025 5:38 pm - Authorities said Thursday that they're looking into a connection between last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University and an attack two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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‘Real and present threat’: Judge orders man charged in Schaumburg slaying detainedDec 18, 2025 1:35 pm - A Cook County judge detained the Niles man charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his former girlfriend on Dec. 16 in a Schaumburg parking lot.