Local Crime

A prisoner being transported in a police car escaped in Deerfield and carjacked two motorists before being taken into custody following a pursuit in Wisconsin. Two Park Ridge police officers were transporting a male prisoner to the Lake County Jail around 2:30 p.m. Saturday. The man was wanted on a Lake County warrant. Read more...

A police pursuit of a suspect who hit a police officer with a car ended with the suspect crashing and being taken into custody in Barrington Hills Saturday morning. The incident began in Carpentersville late Friday evening just before midnight. Read more...

EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. — A 21-year-old employee was shot and killed by her boyfriend at a Mariano’s in Evergreen Park Thursday morning, according to police. Investigators revealed that law enforcement officials quickly tracked down the suspected shooter because of a previous domestic incident.  Read more...

ROCKFORD, Ill. — Over last weekend, police announced charges against a 44-year-old man from Blue Island in relation to the death of a 10-year-old Rockford girl. Since then, details on his criminal past and connections to other crimes have continued to unfold. According to the Rockford Police Department, Antonio Monroe is charged with several crimes, [...]

A juvenile has been charged with murder for allegedly fatally shooting a 23-year-old man who was traveling in a vehicle near the College of Lake County in Grayslake in September. The Grayslake Police Department responded around 10:30 a.m. on September 17 to Northwestern Medicine Center Grayslake, 1475 East Belvidere Road, for a call of a [...]

Authorities say an armed masked gunman was arrested and an officer was injured after police received a call of at least seven people trying to break into a home in Zion. The Zion Police Department responded around 8:07 p.m. on July 3 to the 3000 block of Gideon Avenue in Zion. Read more...

A Wisconsin man was arrested after he allegedly slapped an elderly man in the face while at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, prosecutors said. Tristan Mahamed, 32, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was charged with aggravated battery of a victim over 60, a Class 2 felony. Read more...

Paramedics transported two people to the hospital after they were wounded during a shooting believed to have occurred at a house party in Waukegan Sunday. The Waukegan Police Department and Waukegan Fire Department responded around 7 p.m. Sunday to Lake Behavioral Hospital, 2615 Washington Street in Waukegan. Read more...

A police officer interrupted an altercation and arrested a suspect who allegedly retrieved a gun on the Woodstock Square Thursday, one week after a shooting in the same location. A Woodstock police officer was on patrol around 11:45 p.m. Thursday in the 200 block of North Benton Street in Woodstock. Read more...

Prosecutors say officers responding to a retail theft call inside Gurnee Mills mall in Gurnee arrested a Round Lake man fleeing the scene while armed with a loaded gun. Javon M. Mills, 18, of Round Lake, was charged with four counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. Read more...