$2 Million Bond For Man Charged With Killing Ex-Wife In Wheaton
Lee Leinweber, 56, faces one count of first-degree murder, according to the DuPage County state's attorney's office.
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Lee Leinweber, 56, faces one count of first-degree murder, according to the DuPage County state's attorney's office.
The mother of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly beaten and strangled by a man she met on Backpage.com, after having run away from home, has set her sights on the website.
A middle school in South Elgin likely will be a sea of blue and red on Tuesday, as students wear Cubs gear in support of a classmate who is in the hospital, recovering from serious brain and skull injuries suffered in an attack in the hallway.
Four women reported they were possibly given a date rape drug while attending a party at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on Jan. 21, according to an alert from the school's Sexual Harassment Prevention Office. Two of those women believe they were sexually assaulted.
Two people were shot to death inside a Brighton Park home in the 2500 block of West 46th Street at about 7:30 a.m.
Joel Ullmer, 48, pleaded guilty in DuPage County Circuit Court to indirect criminal contempt for collecting more than $23,000 from consumers for unlicensed plumbing work, according to a statement from Illinois attorney general's office.
Family and friends rally around the 12-year-old as he recovers from being severely beaten by another student at Kenyon Woods Middle School.
A man was arrested, two women were charged after an undercover operation revealed prostitution and human trafficking at Schaumburg hotels.
Rashiem Malik Holloway, 27, was charged with one count of bank robbery, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois.
A man who decapitated his aunt's boyfriend after being told to move out of her Northwest Side apt. has been sentenced to 33 years in prison.
A 27-year-old man was killed in a shooting that also left and a woman wounded Sunday night in the Vittum Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said.
Zolo Azania had been locked up since 1981.
Heather Mack has "confessed" to her mother's murder. But that doesn't necessarily mean she's telling the truth.
Lorin E. Volberding, 71, was charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of his wife and ordered held on $100,000 bond, according to McHenry County sheriff's office records.
A 54-year-old man was stabbed early Monday during a dispute with his 25-year-old partner in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.
Angel Morgan, 42, and her husband, 49-year-old Patrick Morgan, were both pronounced dead at 4:10 a.m. at their home in the 400 block of North Bluff Street in Joliet, according to the Will County coroner's office.
The 42-year-old was in a vehicle near the intersection of Laramie and George when someone in a gangway fired shots, Chicago Police.
One or more robbers punched victims who refused to hand over their belongings in the Budlong Woods neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
One man was shot and a woman was injured in a crash Sunday morning in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
A vandal smashed the front window of the Chicago Loop Synagogue and affixed swastikas to its front entrance.
State police investigated after a man walked into hospital and claimed he was shot while driving on I-290 Sunday morning.
Police are warning residents of burglaries in the Town Hall district on the North Side in the last few weeks.
Two 15-year-old boys were killed and seven people were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening, according to CPD.
She states in the video that she wanted to be "set free by the truth."
The new motion focuses on a "whole different set of irregularities, dealing specifically with the grand jury," Daniel Herbert told Judge Vincent Gaughan.
