Local Crime

Police are warning residents after at least 10 suspects descended on neighborhoods in Libertyville early Wednesday morning and burglarized vehicles before fleeing police in four different cars. The Libertyville Police Department said they responded around 2:20 a.m. Wednesday to multiple locations for reports of suspects entering and rummaging through parked cars.

Police are investigating after multiple armed suspects approached a woman who was leaving a church in Zion, stole her property and carjacked her at gunpoint. The Zion Police Department responded around 9:20 p.m. last Wednesday to New Way Faith Tabernacle Church of God In Christ, 2801 30th Street, for a report of an armed vehicular [...]

Charges have been filed against a juvenile and an adult after police say the two possessed machine guns following a shooting that left a victim wounded in Antioch Wednesday. The Antioch Police Department responded around 12:43 a.m. Wednesday to the area of Hillside Avenue and Harden Street for a report of shots fired after multiple [...]

Police say they are investigating after suspects committed a smash-and-grab burglary at a popular tobacco store, which recently opened, in Round Lake Beach. The incident happened just after 3 a.m. Thursday at Smokers Wonderland, 809 East Rollins Road in Round Lake Beach.

Prosecutors say a man accused of possessing the gun that was used in the homicide of a 15-year-old girl in Round Lake Beach was on probation for an armed robbery case, a sentence he received just months ago. Lake County Major Crime Task Force Spokesman Christopher Covelli announced in an update Saturday morning that Round [...]

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Police are holding a suspect in the shooting of a tree trimmer after an apparent noise dispute in the northwest suburbs Wednesday, which led to a SWAT response after the alleged shooter barricaded himself inside a home for hours. Police surrounded the home for seven hours before the alleged shooter was taken [...]

ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. — A 15-year-old girl was eating dinner inside a Round Lake Beach home Wednesday night when a bullet entered the residence and struck her. Officers responded to the 1500 block of Cherokee Drive on the report of an injured person at around 9:10 p.m.

A Lake County sheriff’s canine helped officers track down a gun that was ditched by a suspect who fled from officers in Vernon Hills early Wednesday. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office was requested with a canine around 1:40 a.m. Wednesday to assist in the 500 block of Townline Road in Vernon Hills.

A man who claimed to be part of former President Donald Trump’s security detail and said he was on the way to the RNC was arrested in Lake County after police found him with body armor and loaded guns. James A. Faber, 51, of Chicago, was charged with false personation of a peace officer, a [...]

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — An individual is armed and barricaded inside of a home near where a person was found shot in Schaumburg earlier this afternoon, according to village officials. Village officials said police are on the scene of an armed barricaded subject near South Braintree Drive where a shooting investigation was launched Wednesday. Police said [...]