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A Bridgeport man is charged with driving under the influence after he struck a Chicago Police officer with his vehicle Thursday morning in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
Yonatan D. Monrroy-Madrid, 19, faces one felony count of aggravated DUI causing an accident resulting in a death, according to a statement from Chicago Police.
Cook County Judge William J. Hooks also sentenced Ryne San Hamel to four years probation.
John A. Yanni III was charged with two counts of aggravated DUI and one count of reckless homicide, the DeKalb County sheriff's office said.
Dwane Rowlett, 43, was charged with one felony count of aggravated fleeing, one misdemeanor count of DUI and three misdemeanor counts of aggravated assault of a peace officer, according to Chicago Police. He was also issued two traffic citations.
Four and a half years after Tracy Swenson lost her husband Aaron to a tragic accident on I-294, she hoped Tuesday would bring justice.
A woman has been charged with DUI after she allegedly crashed a car into a Lake County sheriff's squad car that was blocking off the scene of a crash early Friday in north suburban Mettawa.
A 61-year-old woman has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for running over an Illinois State Police trooper on the Tri-State tollway two years ago, and causing a crash that injured four other people.
The Kensington Police Service took to Facebook on Saturday, announcing an additional punishment to someone caught driving - listening to Nickelback's album Silver Side Up on the way to jail.
A Chicago woman was drunk when she caused an Eisenhower Expressway crash that left a 10-month-old boy in her car on life support early Sunday, Illinois State Police allege.
Frank Oppong, of the 1800 block of North Monticello in Chicago, was charged with felony aggravated drunk driving, felony aggravated driving while license is revoked, transportation with open alcohol, driving the wrong way on a one-way street and several other traffic citations.
A Hammond police officer was charged with DUI after an Indiana state trooper allegedly saw him driving erratically and pulled him over early Saturday in Lowell.
A north suburban woman was sentenced to five years in prison after she pleaded guilty to DUI charges for an Evanston rollover crash that left a U.S. Army veteran dead last year.
A Lake County sheriff's deputy has been placed on administrative leave after he was arrested for drunk driving early Tuesday in northwest Indiana.
Riverside police are ramping up patrols aimed at preventing impaired drivers during the Thanksgiving holiday week, and two men have already been charged with DUI in the western suburb.
A Chicago man was charged with DUI after a hit-and-run crash early Sunday in west suburban Lyons.
Rachel Dover, 24, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was charged with operating while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury, a Level 6 felony, police said.
Police learned the 13-year-old passenger had been worried about the motorist's driving and was texting relatives.
Quinn Gabnay, 46, was convicted June 3 of four counts of aggravated DUI by Judge Donald Tegeler Jr., according to a statement from the Kane County state's attorney's office. It was his third DUI offense.
The man crashed his car into several parked vehicles early Sunday in Niles.
Anthony S. Potochney was charged with four counts of aggravated DUI, two counts of DUI, and one count of leaving the scene of a crash, all felonies.
Charges are pending against the driver in an apparent DUI crash Friday night that killed a 9-year-old Aurora girl.
Andres Quinones, 33, faces felony counts of aggravated DUI causing death and failure to stop in a fatal accident for the crash that left Officer Charles Barango dead about 2 a.m., authorities said.
Budweiser and Lyft are coming together starting Friday to make a bold statement against drunk driving.
The officer smelled a strong odor of alcohol from Whittington and observed glassy eyes, slurred speech, and swaying.
