Crime
The Will County Sheriff's Office also updated the number of people injured in the shooting, saying nine people were sent to hospitals in addition to those who died. One person remained in critical condition and three remained hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
Crime
Police were seeking tips from the public in finding two suspected shooters who fled from the scene and were also seeking witnesses or anyone who may have video or photographs from the party.
Chicagoland News
Police estimated about 200 people attended a Halloween party at the home and the shooting occurred outside near a DJ booth set up in the backyard.
Environment
With construction scheduled to resume Nov. 1, the non-profit conservation group that cares for the Bell Bowl Prairie struck a deal to temporarily halt bulldozers ready to expand Rockford Airport.
News
Heather Mack's sentence for assisting in the murder of her mother, Shiela von Wiese-Mack, was shortened by a total of 34 months due to reductions that are often granted to prisoners on major holidays because of their good conduct.
Chicagoland News
Peck, who is the past president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 61 in Gary, was fired nearly a year ago by the Gary Police Civil Service Commission following a disciplinary complaint filed in connection with his alleged assault of Rasaan Hamilton, records show.
Crime
From 2006 to 2015 he conspired with his company’s employees in Pakistan to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by exporting computer equipment from the U.S. to the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and a research institute that trained the agency’s engineers and scientists.
Crime
Rickey Claybron and his co-conspirators were convicted of a series of violent retail robberies that occurred in Rockford from October through November of 2015.
Sports
USA Hockey announced the move Tuesday, saying a replacement would be named in the near future.
Law
The hearing was likely the last before Rittenhouse goes on trial Nov. 1 for the shootings during chaotic demonstrations in Kenosha on Aug. 25, 2020.
Crime
A woman called police to report that a man inside a home had been drinking, was armed with a Samurai sword, and had threatened to kill her and attack officers.
Law
Over 4 decades later, authorities are still working to unravel the horrors that John Wayne Gacy committed in the Chicago area.